On Certain Groundlessness

About On Certain Groundlessness

Do you like to tread on unsteady ground? Do you enjoy the view from a high-rise building, balancing over a high wire or following the allure of the unknown and uncertain? This is a podcast as an artistic research endeavour – a piece of PodArt – that will get your head spinning, proposing artworks intertwined with conversations. Following the pleasures and risks of becoming dizzy, we, artist-researcher duo Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond and curator Sergio Edelsztein, have the immense pleasure of discussing dizziness with brilliant artists, writers, musicians, political scientists, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, urban planners, curators and other thinkers and creatives from Europe, North and South America, South East Asia and the Middle East. We're excited to discuss and learn something unexpected along the way as our guests talk about their ideas of dizziness, uncertainty, unpredictability and anxiety, the generative and destructive potential these states yield in our personal and social lives and environments; eventually, they propose ways of navigating dizziness individually, collectively and with our environment. When can we enjoy getting dizzy? When does it constitute a risk, and what risks are worth taking individually and as a society? What is your take on dizziness, togetherness, and options for navigating states of dizziness, uncertainty and unpredictability together? Let us know: contact@anderwald-grond.at (mailto:contact@anderwald-grond.at) Produced in spatial audio, this PodArt is best enjoyed with a high-quality headset. 5 episodes of PodArt and the 2-part audio play Vertiginous by Dani Gal More on www.on-dizziness.com (www.on-dizziness.com) Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein Assistance: Laura Brechmann Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts Associate Producer: Livia Heiss Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna (https://zentrumfokusforschung.uni-ak.ac.at/) FWF – Austrian Science Funds, (FWF PEEK AR598) (https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria (https://www.bmkoes.gv.at/en.html) The project team have made every effort to secure permission to reproduce the listed sound, material, illustrations and photographs. We apologise for any inadvertent errors and omissions. Parties who nevertheless believe they can claim specific legal rights are invited to contact the project team. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Sergio Edelsztein, OH WOW

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Aug 2023

Latest episode

3 Oct 2023

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Oct 2023

   1. Exploring Dizziness

   "Dizziness needs a body to exist. But what a body is can be discussed. How can we recognise these embodiments and be aware of our dizziness?" María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez Looking at the world through the prism of dizziness creates a distinct perspective that allows for profound questions and observations concerning ourselves, the worlds we inhabit and their dynamics. Developing this PodArt as a co-creative artistic-research practice, we venture into different directions in the hope of learning how the dynamics of dizziness influence our being together and how to create generative ways of navigating dizziness together. Meeting us in this endeavour, we have the pleasure of conversing with a string of brilliant guests. With contributions by Gloria Benedikt, Katrin Bucher-Trantow, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Davide Deriu, Tim Etchells, Karoline Feyertag, Dani Gal, María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, David Grubbs, Ran Holtzmann, Anna Kim, Gal Kronenberg, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Dan Novy, Alice Pechriggl, Letizia Ragaglia, Evdokia Romanova, Grace Samboh, Katja Schechtner, Basak Senova, Ben Spatz, Trevor Paglen, Angelos Varvarousis, Ilan Volkov. "Fumbling & Tumbling" by Olga Neuwirth, performed by Anders Nyquist. "Dizziness is my Name" by Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Karoline Feyertag featuring Anders Nyquist. "Diamonds" by Alvin Lucier, performed by Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, New World Records. Links: www.on-dizziness.com (www.on-dizziness.com) Credits: Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein Assistance: Laura Brechmann Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts Associate Producer: Livia Heiss Graphic: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond Sound: 002_DIKEMAN - NOBLE - SERRIES - Obscure Fluctuations - 02 The Heart Strips Bare.wav, Bare.wav612324__thehorsevalse__loopop-superbooth-mega-contest-cosmic-wanderer-beat.wav, 234241__trebblofang__dare-26_dll_file7.flac, 491405__ienba__crowd-in-panic.wav, William_S._Burroughs_-_Love_your_enemies.mp3, AMB_Traven'1Mykhai.m4a, 360773__dnlburnett__ambience-outside-building-site-with-some-traffic.wav, File Under Toner - surf ace noise.mp3, 151210__wolfrfe__istanbul-harbour-sounds-near-galata-bridge.wav, 349455__insintesi__karlheinz-2.wav, 524698__brunoauzet__algerian-open-air-market.wav, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna FWF – Austrian Science Funds (FWF PEEK AR598) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   2 Oct 2023

   2. Dizzying Heights

   "Dizziness is a disturbed sense of relationship we have to space. In other words, environmental conditions can make us feel dizzy, which is very much related to the built environment and how we experience architecture and urban space." Davide Deriu This episode is all about keeping and losing balance in space. Keeping our bodily balance is a continuous somatic performance of which we become aware only in the event of a disturbance: the very moment we lose our bearings, stumble, or fall; that is, when the relation between the body and the surrounding world is changed in an unforeseeable and often undesirable way. What role does the (built) environment play in the ways we balance? What a joy to ponder Ben Spatz's thought on the physicality of dizziness, Davide Deriu's proposition of an "architecture of vertigo", to understand the process of somatic architect and designer Auxiliadora Galvez Perez, or to learn about Trevor Paglen's disrupted artistic space project. As we balance cautiously along our topic's high wire, we encounter Dani Gal's radio play "Vertiginous. Part I, Camilla." With contributions by Dan Novy, Ben Spatz, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Davide Deriu, María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, Katrin Bucher-Trantow, Trevor Paglen, Dani Gal. Radio Play Speakers: David Wurawa, Alexei Korolyov, Alix Martin, Ewa Placzyńska. "Vertiginous. Part I Camilla" by Dani Gal "Traven'1Mykhai" by Strukturator Links: www.on-dizziness.com (http://www.on-dizziness.com) Credits: Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein Assistance: Laura Brechmann Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts Associate Producer: Livia Heiss Photo: Hulton Archive, 1860 Sound: Steve Marciano - Annexation.mp3, 320767__wittte__nyc-ambience.wav, 567375__szegvari__street-fantasy-thriller.wav, TR213_03_Lack.wav, Dan Ake - Sojurn in the Cirque.mp3, Steve Marciano - Communication Skills.mp3, FortyOne - Berserko Santa.mp3, 002_DIKEMAN - NOBLE - SERRIES - Obscure Fluctuations - 02 The Heart Strips Bare.wav, Steve Marciano - Die Zelle.mp3, 527749__brunoauzet__rue-rivoli-paris.wav, 614692__secondbody__glitched-oscillations-5-stutter.wav, 567375__szegvari__street-fantasy-thriller.wav, Natural Ambiance - Amusement Park (noisy, popcorn popping, crowds, rollercoasters).m4a, 253353__keina_espineira__modern-art-museums-the-macba.wav, 005_TR220_01_Taiyo No Maiso.wav, 57634__brennpunkt__13_schaukelvalparaiso.wav, 201178__phonoflora__bhagalpur-silk-weaving-handlloom.wav, 005_TR220_01_Taiyo No Maiso.wav, 218915__cusconauta__people-walking-along-tube-platform.wav, 614692__secondbody__glitched-oscillations-5-stutter.wav, 74242__benboncan__military-helicopter.wav, 590052__szegvari__morning-cloud-atmo-orchestral.wav, 647683__arpeggio1980__exhibition-gallery-preview-at-library-crowd-chatting.wav, 624391__multimediagigant__wavestate-thriller-5.wav, 467953__w1zy__am_radio_sounds.m4a, 609840__eminyildirim__space-drone-ambience-7-variation.wav, 218915__cusconauta__people-walking-along-tube-platform.wav, 506324__clacksberg__cosmic-minimal-music-fragment.wav, onlymp3.to - Free jazz Improvis Drone Dikeman Govaert Serries Trio @ White Noise Sessions 27 February 2015-L_ti5ojXtaU-256k-1655274667078.mp3 Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna FWF – Austrian Science Funds (FWF PEEK AR598) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   2 Oct 2023

   3. Politics of Dizziness

   "What does it mean to actually find oneself removed from an overbearing context, or find yourselves at a loss, or confused and dizzy and dislocated from the world that itself carries a certain order, but one that's apparently life-denying, devastating, and decimating? Dizziness can present a fruitful opening for a potentially generative togetherness and interdependence through dizziness as a rejection of the current order." Natasha Lennard "Dizziness is very helpful to understand that clarity is an illusion and fake most of the time. But it needs to be searched like wisdom: Clarity is a utopia." Alice Pechriggl This episode starts with the radio play "Vertiginous. Part II Abdallah" by Dani Gal. This beginning leads us to deliberate on dizziness's political and sociopolitical implications. Here, the dark or "ugly face of dizziness", as Angelos Varvarousis calls it, takes shape. What havoc can dizziness create in a society? How can we shift its potential to the generative and fertile? In search of a better understanding, we time-travel to specific political turning points of the 20th century with historian Ursula Prutsch, and to different geographies, from Austria to Argentia, Brazil, the USA, Korea, and Turkey - considering the liberatory and destructive dynamics of dizziness and the dizzying systems that we enforce and those that are enforced on us. With contributions by Philippe Narval, Alice Pechriggl, Natascha Lennard, Angelos Varvarousis, Dan Novy, Basak Senova, Ursula Prutsch, Anna Kim, Evdokia Romanova, Yulia Strykovska. Radio Play Speakers: David Wurawa, Alexei Korolyov, Alix Martin, Ewa Placzyńska. "Vertiginous. Part II Abdallah" by Dani Gal "Palabra Santa" by Eduardo Roudnicky. Links: http://www.on-dizziness.com/ (http://www.on-dizziness.com/) Credits: Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein Assistance: Laura Brechmann Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts Associate Producer: Livia Heiss Photo: "Circulating Swing," used a therapeutic tool at the Lunatic Asylum, Cork, 1818 Sound: 0001_DIKEMAN - NOBLE - SERRIES - Obscure Fluctuations - 01 From Assent to Refusal.wav, 002_DIKEMAN - NOBLE - SERRIES - Obscure Fluctuations - 02 The Heart Strips Bare.wav, AMB_bernard_herrmann_vertigo_theme_-8082770199099796011^.wav, Take_20210812_19_01_crepuscule_chaud_libellules_(ACN-SN3D-3).wav, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna FWF – Austrian Science Funds (FWF PEEK AR598) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   2 Oct 2023

   4. Out of Control

   We are uncovering more and more that the world is, in fact, a very dizzy place and that we are permanently in a state of dizziness. Anna Kim We know from the substantial body of psychological research that in the Western world, one particular group of people drawn to conspiracy have a problem with ambiguity and uncertainty, which I think is closely related to dizziness. Michael Butter Uncertainty, ways of control and oppression and modes of dis/obedience: Who is this “we” we create? Covering critical topics as diverse as conspiracy theories, propaganda, the impact of the pandemic in Brazil or Jakarta, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the Climate Emergency, we try to grasp community and commonality, meandering through today’s world, weighing our options through the prism of dizziness with our brilliant guests’ insights. With contributions by Alice Pechriggl, Michael Butter, Ursula Prutsch, Dan Novy, Natascha Lennard, Evdokia Romanova, Ran Holtzmann, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Grace Samboh, Anna Kim, Trevor Paglen, Ben Spatz, Katrin Bucher-Trantow. Untill the End by Tim Etchells. Credits: Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein Assistance: Laura Brechmann Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts Photo: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond Sound: 002_DIKEMAN - NOBLE - SERRIES - Obscure Fluctuations - 02 The Heart Strips Bare.wav, TR220_01_Taiyo No Maiso.wav, TR220_03_Kumo No Hikisaki.wav, arciv ev noise - sogepak.mp3, 614692__secondbody__glitched-oscillations-5-stutter.wav, TR220_02_Tsuki No Kanashimi.wav, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna FWF – Austrian Science Funds (FWF PEEK AR598) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

5. 

   2 Oct 2023

   5. Dizzy Together

   "The way out of the discourse, the exit, is a way to safety, a 'poros' which appears unexpectedly, which no one can be sure of finding, and which is itself always aporetic: a true miracle, an encounter with a dolphin in mid-ocean. But if we refuse to swim, if we stay where we are, we must abandon all hope of ever meeting a dolphin that might save us." Sarah Kofman Concluding our journey, we try to improve our spinning skills with Gloria Benedikt, find serenity in powerlifting with Dan Novy, become numerous with Natasha Lennard, stay on common ground with Grace Samboh, think in non-stereotypical forms of knowledge with Ben Spatz, discern fake clarity and total dizziness with Alice Pechriggl, support each other in liminal commons with Angelos Varvarousis, open up to indigenous and more-than-human worlds with Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, imagine different futures with Katja Schechtner, consider the meaning of love with Philippe Narval, and create lighthouses for ourselves and each other with Trevor Paglen. With contributions by Ran Holtzmann, Gloria Benedict, Dan Novy, Ben Spatz, Anna Kim, Alice Pechriggl, Angelos Varvarousis, Natascha Lennard, Philippe Narval, Grace Samboh, Gal Kronenberg, Letizia Ragaglia, Ursula Prutsch, Basak Senova, Tim Etchells, David Grubbs, Katja Schechtner, María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, Trevor Paglen, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha. "Awarness Through Movement (Feldenkrais) lesson" by Sascha Krausneker Credits: Directors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein Assistance: Laura Brechmann Spatial Audio Mix: Florian Grond Recording and Vocals Support: Ethan Vincent Production: Jeanne Drach, OH WOW Podcasts Associate Producer: Livia Heiss Graphic: Tarantella Sound: 005__inspectorj__glitching-vinyl-record-player-a.wav, 005_Zena.mp3, 386074__speakingmusic__champaign-pouring.wav, 392624__kenrt__champagne-cork.wav, 635863__wax_vibe__glitch-sci-fi-12wav.wav, 368652__grapelemon__musicbox.wav, 421852__inspectorj__crowd-screaming-a.wav, 10 Echo - As-salamu alaykum.mp3, 444325__gouldem__experimentl_digial_sound_17.wav, 667483__kevp888__voc_221216-2184-2_fr_frenchballetclass.wav, 619036__mrrap4food__crowd-cheer.mp3, Free jazz Improvis Drone Dikeman Govaert Serries Trio @ White Noise Sessions 27 February 2015.mp3, Obscure Fluctuatizans, John Dikeman, Steve Noble, Dirk Serries – Trost Records, Chinmoku wa ishikure ni yadoru bouryoku, Kawashima Makoto, Mochizuki Harutaka, Michel Henritzi – Trost Records, Paradiso Infernal – Trost Records, PARADISO INFERNAL, s/t – Trost Records. Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna FWF – Austrian Science Funds, (FWF PEEK AR598) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

6. 

   10 Aug 2023

   Supplement: Vertiginous - Audio Play by Dani Gal

   Vertiginous by Dani Gal Part II Abdallah With the backdrop of The Second World War and the Algerian War for Independence, "Vertiginous," a two-part audio play, tells the story of Camilla Mayer and Abdallah Bebtaga, two circus acrobats whose life is entangled through their steep rise to glory and tragic fall. Speakers: David Wurawa, Alexei Korolyov, Alix Martin, Ewa Placzyńska Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna FWF – Austrian Science Funds (FWF PEEK AR598) Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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