Improvisation for me means to steadily scan my environment with all my senses in order to be able to react. This monitoring was a movement or awareness in as many directions as possible.
Lecture by Mathias Benedek at ‘Navigating the Unknown – Fears and Pleasures of Dizziness‘.
The Atlas depicts a short moment of balance.
This artistic-research exploration starts with a somatic critique of opposing stillness to movement, body to cognition, and equilibrium to instability.
This screening program is part of the larger networked exhibition and event series Iliggocene-The Age of Dizziness.
From neuroscientific and physiological to the cultural, artistic and philosophical engagement with dizziness, this conference is structured as a kaleidoscopic spectrum.