2024, Tidal Balance, 7 Min 9 Sec, sound
I’ve heard surviving pilots tell, that free fall triggers a feeling of confusion between the self and the aircraft. While falling, people may sense themselves as being things, while things may sense that they are people.
‘Dizziness’ is an English translation of the German word ‘Taumel’, which implies a broader semantic field including notions of physical and emotional disequilibrium, staggering, confusion, uncertainty, and turmoil.
Braiding Sweetgrass offers points of relation to queerness, dizziness, and their intersections, by addressing the importance of the collective and lived reciprocity, talking about how plants and forest are teaching us about the destructive and constructive elements of change, and by exploring the possibilities of standing at the brink and those of falling.
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond take Dizziness–A Resource to the classroom.
The Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research organizes events online and at different locations for the exchange about current projects and initiatives. It wants to contribute to the further development of the discourses in the field of the Medical & Health Humanities, but focus in particular on the manifold connections between the Medical & Health Humanities and artistic research.
The FORUM 20:17 wants to bring up the social and cultural change of the global societies and the associated need for orientation of young people in the new form of a future laboratory as well as the associated need for shaping open and associative youth work.
