2024, Tidal Balance, 7 Min 9 Sec, sound
Ruth Anderwald, Leonhard Grond, Sergio Edelsztein, Jeanne Drach and Laura Brechmann create a series of podcasts that is at the same time a sound sculpture. In this way, the work can be perceived individually and portably and as an audience in a specific setting.
We use the term coalescence to describe a moment where a multitude of actors come together, act together, and merge into a collective movement, body, or unit. The resulting situation is a shared but divergent somatic, spatial and cognitive experience of togetherness that is experienced as fertile and generative by all or most of the collective.
In the performative conversation "Radically Involved", dizziness and queerness were introduced as perspectives to reflect on togetherness.
This workshop will elucidate how dizziness breaks up the given, be it habits, beliefs, preconceptions or patterns, creating space and dynamics between established categories and perceived oppositions. In this sense dizziness provides power and dynamics to restructure, to rethink, to redesign the given.
Under the motto "Freedom is My Home," the third annual international symposium dedicated to the work of Jiří Trnka takes place in October 2024. Alongside the symposium's expert program, various accompanying events for the general public will be organized at several locations in Plzeň.
The Europe we inhabit today developed as a project in resistance to its past fascisms. But are fascisms only found in the past? This day-long workshop and exchange meeting explores resistance against fascisms as a performative, artistic, cultural, digital and educational instrument of realizing (European) community.
