Conference

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Dizziness, Disorientation, and Instability

From neuroscientific and physiological to the cultural, artistic and philosophical engagement with dizziness, this conference is structured as a kaleidoscopic spectrum offering different perspectives on a condition that is embodied and experienced as much as metaphorical and cultural. The program is structured into two sections: the first focusing on dizziness and balance, and the second on dizziness and collapse. With Prof. Dr. Alexander C. Stahn, Warren Neidich, Marcus Steinweg, Anna Kim, Prof. Dr. Jack Halberstam, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee, a.o. 

Curated by Ruth Anderwald, Sergio Edelsztein and Leonhard Grond

The conference is part of the Iliggocene–The Age of Dizziness project in cooperation with KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art and funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

Program:

Part I: Dizziness and Balance

10:00 Welcome & Introduction

Prof. Dr. Monika Ankele, Sergio Edelsztein and

Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond (Artist-researchers, CSS Centre for Sensory Studies Concordia University, Montreal/Tio'tia:ke; mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)

10:30 - 11:30 Hans Scherer (Emeritus Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin): Living in the World of Gravity 

11:30 - 12:30 Alexander Stahn (Professor at the Centre for Space Medicine and Extreme Environments
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin): From Seasickness to Space Motion Sickness: How the Vestibular System Shapes the Brain

12:30 - 13:30 Warren Neidich (Artist and Theorist, Berlin, New York): Cognitive Justice, The Brain Without Organs and Eco-planetary Sapienization in Cognitive Capitalism

13:30 Lunch BREAK

Part II: Dizziness and Collapse

14:30 Introduction

15:00 - 16:00 Marcus Steinweg (Philosopher, Berlin): Dizziness

16:00 - 17:00  Anna Kim (Author, Vienna): Dizziness & Collapse: The Language Orphan

17:00 - 18:00  Jack Halberstam (David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University, New York): All Fall Down: An Aesthetics of Collapse 

18:30-20:00  Performance Dominique Savitri Bonarjee: Collapse - A participatory action, choreographed by Dominique Savitri Bonarjee

The talks will be edited and published as part of a podcast series in collaboration with the Viennese production studio OH WOW!. This will ensure long-term accessibility and public dissemination of the content beyond the duration of the event.

This event is made possible by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst and Hasenherz