2017 © Forum 20:17
Ruth Anderwald: Der Taumel – eine Ressource?, lecture in German at Forum 20:17, Zukunftslabor der Jugendarbeit.9–10 October, 2017Merano, Italy
For a decade, I’ve been collapsing on asphalt, concrete and stone.
‘Dizziness’ implies notions of physical and emotional disequilibrium, staggering, confusion, uncertainty, and turmoil. This article discusses dizziness as a possible resource for creativity including the concept of the ‘compossible space’.
What forms of resistance are still possible in this world we live in? How can the disfranchised live a peaceful life in a free community, while in defiance of the control society and the society of spectacle?
How do the arts research? What knowledge is produced? What social challenges are explored? What possible society is imagined?
Whether perplexing turmoil or joyful ilinx, by becoming dizzy, we enter a stage of heightened vulnerability, unsure of our perception, processing, orientation and abilities – uncertain of ourselves and the world around us.
My talk explains how performance work inhabits a liminal space that blurs the boundaries between art and philosophy, art and life, self and other, intelligence and madness.
