"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

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

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Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond

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"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

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

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"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/

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

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