2014 © Anderwald + Grond
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Oktober 31st, 2014.
Indeed, dizziness is more than feeling dizzy. Contributions by artists, researchers from experimental sciences as well as cultural studies, and philosophers trace dizziness not only as a phenomenon of physiological, emotional, and cognitive processes but highlight the transversal nature of the phenomenon.
Only since contemporary philosophy could compossibility also mean that opposites, several mutually contradictory worlds or heterogeneous truths, are possible within the same universe and without necessarily entailing separation, distinction or any dichotomy between them.
Both notions seem crucial when thinking of the catalysts for dizziness. Reaching one’s own limit makes one dizzy. Crossing a threshold, which is understood as a symbol for ending something and beginning something new, could begin within dizziness but also end with lucidity.
Dizziness, Anxiety, and Climate Action. Reflecting the Possibilities of Artistic Research from the Viewpoint of the Compossible Space.
This artistic-research exploration starts with a somatic critique of opposing stillness to movement, body to cognition, and equilibrium to instability.
'In 50 years people will whistle my tunes in the streets', composer and artist Arnold Schönberg famously stated at the beginning of the 20th century.
