Balancing Togetherness – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Guided tour through the Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown exhibition for the participants of the symposium and get-together

Introduction: Jaroslaw Lubiak

• Semantics of Dizziness

  • Ph. D Jarosław Lubiak – an artistic director at Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland. He also teaches at Art College in Szczecin. In his work as a curator and art critic he focuses on crossings between contemporary art, philosophy and social sphere, aesthetics and politics, art institution and political economy. He recently curated Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw in 2016–2017; The State of Life: Polish Contemporary Art within the Global Context in National Art Museum of China, Beijing in 2015. He was a member of a curatorial team of Europe (to the power of) n (2012-2013) — the project led by Goethe Institute, London and co-realized by ten partners in Europe and China and of Scenarios about Europe (2011-2012) — the project realized by ten partners from Europe and China in Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Germany. He also curated with Małgorzata Ludwisiak Correspondances: Modern art and Universalism juxtaposing and interweaving the collections of the Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz and of the Hermann and Magrit Rupf Foundation/Kunstmuseum, Bern in 2012. The books he recently edited include: The State of Life. Polish Contemporary Art within the Global Context (Beijing: National Art Museum of China, People’s Fine Art Publishing House, 2015), Unleashed Forces: Angelika Markul and Contemporary Demonism (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2013); Correspondances: Modern art and Universalism, with Małgorzata Ludwisiak (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012); The Afterimages of Life: Władysław Strzemiński and the Rights for Art (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012).

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Introduction: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond

• What is Dizziness – A Resource?

  • Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond – visual artists, artist-researchers and artist-curators, Vienna. Born in 1976 + 1977 in Graz, Austria, and based in Vienna, they started working as an artist duo in 1999. In 2007 their book and photo series Notizen zu einer Küste [Notes on a Coast] was pub-lished in collaboration with Giora Rosen and Klaus Zeyringer, including their eponymous photo series and the first anthology of contemporary Hebrew lyric poetry ever translated into German. Beginning of 2012 they founded the nomadic screening and discussion series, HASENHERZ, inspired by Arnold Schönberg’s Society for Private Musical Performanc-es. 2013 —2014 they cooperated with the writer and essayist Anna Kim on a year and a half long project that follows the construction of a new district in Vienna and reflects on the process of converting utopian ideals in urban design into reality. In 2014 Anderwald + Grond started their cross-disciplinary artistic research project Dizziness-A Resource in which the current exhibition Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown (Kunsthaus Graz, 02/ 2017 – 05 / 2017 and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 09/ 2017 — 01 / 2018) has its theoretical and artistic basis. Their numerous exhibitions and screenings include: Trees are Companions, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Shattered Horizon, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai; Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Paradise Now! – French Essential Avant-garde Cinema (1890 – 2008), Tate Modern, London; Camera Sola-ris, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

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Keynote Lecture: Harald Katzmair

• Taumel and Togetherness

  • Ph.D Harald Katzmair – innovation researcher, a social scientist, management philosopher and entrepreneur, Harald Katzmair brings a visionary understanding of network science and resilience theory to leadership, decision making and business development. Vienna-Brussels. Publications (selected): A Third Window. Natural Life be-yond Newton and Darwin, R.E. Ulanowicz. Templeton Press (2009); Navigating the adaptive cycle: An ap-proach to managing the resilience of social systems, ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY (2015); Advancing Empiri-cal Approaches to the Concept of Resilience: A Critical Examination of Panarchy, Ecological Information, and Statistical Evidence, Sustainability (2016).

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Video-performance

Lecture: Marcus Steinweg

• Dizziness, Togetherness and Inconsistency

  • Marcus Steinweg – philosopher, Berlin; teaches at the University of the Arts in Berlin and is the coeditor of the journal Inaes-thetics. Much of his work treats the intersections of philosophy and art. Publications (selected): Incon-sistencies (2017); The Terror of Evidence (2017); Politik des Subjekts, (2009); Aporien der Liebe, (2010); Kunst und Philosophie / Art and Philosophy, (2012).

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Lecture: Mathias Benedek

• Collective Creativity?

  • Ph.D. Mathias Benedek – creativity researcher, Senior Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz. Publications (selected): Arendasy M., Benedek M., Jauk E., Neubauer A.C., Sommer M., Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity, Intelligence, 46, 73 – 83, 2014; Benedek M., Ebner F., Fink A., Jauk E., Koschutnig K., Neubauer A. C., Reishofer G., To create or to recall? Neural mech-anisms underlying the generation of creative new ideas, „NeuroImage”, 88, 125 –133, 2014; Benedek M., Jauk E., Spontaneous and controlled processes in creative cognition, in Christoff K., Fox K.C.R. (eds.), The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought: Mind wandering, creativity, dreaming, and clinical Disor-ders, Oxford University Press, in preparation.

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Lecture Michał Matuszewski

• VR and Body

  • Michał Matuszewski  – film curator, exhibitor and author working at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art where he oversees the film programme and runs regular art-house cinema with daily screenings and various programmes – from experimental films to midnight movies. He curated several film events and retrospectives. He studied Polish Literature and Lin-guistics and used to work as a film journalist. He was a member of international juries (Venice and Berlin). Now he is working on many new projects including a Chris Marker retrospective, a VR cinema project and non-human perspective in cinema.
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Lecture: Karolina Wiktor

• Dizziness in Art and Life?

  • Karolina Wiktor – artist and writer; Warsaw; visual artist, in the years 2001 – 2010 part of Sędzia Główny performance duo together with Aleksandra Kubiak. Selected exhibitions and actions: Chapter III, as part of 4 x performance at Galeria BWA, Zielona Góra, 2002; Tele Game, Artists’ Night, TVP Kultura, 2005; Virus action in Magnetism of the Heart directed by Grze-gorz Jarzyna, Teatr Rozmaitości, 2006; competition exhibition Views 2007 – Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, 2007; To Be Like Sędzia Główny, BWA Wrocław, Galeria Awan-garda, 2010; works in collections of, among others, National Museum in Warsaw, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, Signum Foundation in Poznań. In 2009 organized The Conference Culture and Neuroscience who in 2009 had two strokes and as a result suf-fered from aphasia (a speech impediment caused by damage to the brain). Author of blogs www.afazja. blogspot.com and www.poezjawizualna.blogspot. com; Wiktor has described her experiences in a po-etic autobiography Wołgą przez Afazję [A Volga Ride across Aphasia].

Katrin Bucher Trantow in conversation with Oliver Ressler

• Katrin Bucher Trantow – curator, Kunsthaus Graz. Born 1971 in St. Gallen / CH. Katrin lives and works in Graz (AT). Since 2003 she works as Curator and since 2012 as Chiefcura-tor and Deputy Head at Kunsthaus Graz. She stud-ied art history and history at the University of Basel. 2001 – 2003 she worked as Assistant curator at Kunsthalle Basel. Selection of curated exhibitions: Dizziness, Navigating the Unknown; Alina Szapozc-nikow, Kateřina Vincourová and Camille Henrot; Constantin Luser, Landschaft in Bewegung, Kath-arina Grosse; Berlinde de Bruyckere; Cittadellarte, Sharing Transformation; Michael Kienzer; Measur-ing the world, Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art; Robot Dreams (with Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel); Life? Biomorphic forms in sculpture; Albert Oehlen; M Stadt, European Cityscapes; Sol LeWitt. Editor of different catalogues and artist books; contributions in e.g. Camera Austria International, Domus, Parnass.

• Oliver Ressler – an artist who produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues such as economics, democracy, global warming, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Solo exhibitions: erkeley Art Museum, USA; Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt; Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul.  Ressler is the first price winner of the Prix Thun for Art and Ethics Award in 2016. (www.ressler.at)

Panel Discussion

Lunch Break

Lecture: Anna Kim

• Collective Modes of Destruction

  • Anna Kim – writer and essayist, Berlin; Die gefrorene Zeit. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2008; Die Form der Erinnerung In: Triëdere – Zeitschrift für Theorie und Kunst, Heft 2 / 2010; Invasionen des Privaten. Liter-aturverlag Droschl, Graz 2011; Anatomie einer Nacht. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012,; Der sichtbare Feind. Die Gewalt des Öffentlichen und das Recht auf Privatheit (= Unruhe bewahren). Residenz, St. Pölten 2015; Die große Heimkehr. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017
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Lecture: Ph.D. Bogna Kietlińska

• Dizziness, Togetherness and Cities?

  • Ph.D Bogna Kietlińska – Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw Department of Culture Research Methods. Publications (selected): Sidewalks as spaces of con-flict [Chodniki jako przestrzenie konfliktów], in: So-cietas / Communitas, 2 –1 (18 –1) 2014, pp. 243 – 247.; Multi-sensory Warsaw – a proposal for qualitative research, [Warszawa wielozmysłowa – propozycja badań jakościowych] in: Research practices [Praktyki badawcze], Barbara Fatyga, Magdalena Dudkiewicz, Bogna Kietlińska (eds.). Warszawa: ISNS UW, 2013, pp. 27 – 36,. Using quantitative methods to research the sensory perception of a city [Badanie zmysłowe-go odbioru miasta za pomocą metod jakościowych], in: ‘Science and Higher Education’ [Nauka i Szkol-nictwo Wyższe], Helena Jędrzejczak, Bogna Kietlińs-ka, Anna Klimczak (eds.), 1 / 41 / 2013, pp. 131 –142,; Looking and seeing. The role of competence in the perception of a city [Patrzenie a widzenie. Rola kompetencji w odbiorze miasta], in: ‘Zeszyty arty-styczne’, no. 24, pp. 89 – 96, October 2013,; Katarzy-na Kalinowska, MA (co-author, ISNS UW), Creators of an invisible city – engagement profiles [Twórcy niewidzialnego miasta – profile zaangażowania], in: Invisible City [Niewidzialne Miasto], Marek Krajew-ski (ed.). Warszawa: The Bęc Zmiana Foundation Publishing, 2012, pp. 247 – 265,; Invisible-urban aes-thetics [Niewidzialnomiejskie estetyki], in: Invisible City [Niewidzialne Miasto], Marek Krajewski (ed.). Warszawa: The Bęc Zmiana Foundation Publishing, 2012, pp. 147 –156.
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Lecture Ph.D. Karoline Feyertag 

• Philosophical Basis of Dizziness and Togetherness

  • Ph.D Karoline Feyertag – philosopher; Research Assistant, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Publications (selected): Sarah Kofman. Eine Biographie, Turia+Kant, Wien / Berlin, 2014; 2 What Is Left of Lublin. The Materiality of Memory, In: Krahl / Mennicke-Schwarz / Wagler (eds.), Katalog zur Ausstellung: Blawatne z Lublina / Stoffe aus Lub-lin / Fabrics from Lublin, Kunsthaus Dresden, Spector Books, Leipzig, 2011; Vom Genre der Biographie. Sa-rah Kofman zwischen Bibliographie und Biographie, In: Bernhard Fetz (ed.), Die Biographie – Zur Grun-dlegung ihrer Theorie, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York.
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Final Panel Discussion