2015 © Karoline Feyertag
Performance by Charlotte Hug at Navigating in the Unknown, Monday 11 May, 2015.
This etymological kinship with water seems to be another hint to the watery depths through which we have to make our “way”, our “poros”, when we experience dizziness.
The artist creates blocs of percepts and affects, but the only law of creation is that the compound must stand up on its own.
Vertigo is a specific medical term used to describe the sensation of spinning without moving or having one’s surroundings spin about one.
Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place.
The blurring of art’s boundaries enables it to cross-pollinate and conquer new territories.
This program examines the glances, gestures, affects and fluids that circulate between filming and filmed bodies, celluloid and screen, fantasy and pleasure.
