On Certain Groundlessness - Navigating Dizziness Together

by Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Sergio Edelsztein

This is a podcast as an artistic research endeavour – a piece of PodArt – that will get your head spinning, proposing artworks alongside conversations.

PodArt: On Certain Groundlessness — Navigating Dizziness Together
Available on podcast platforms: Spotify, Apple Podcast…

With contributions by Gloria Benedikt, Katrin Bucher Trantow, Michael Butter, 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, Natasha Lennard, Dan Novy, Alice Pechriggl, Letizia Ragaglia, Evdokia Romanova, Grace Samboh, Katja Schechtner, Basak Senova, Ben Spatz, Trevor Paglen, Ursula Prutsch, Angelos Varvarousis, Ilan Volkov, and others.

1. Epsiode: Exploring Dizziness

Dizziness needs a body to exist. But what a body is can be discussed. Dizziness can have multiple incarnations, but how can we recognize these embodiments and be aware of our dizziness? María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez

2. Episode: Dizzying Hights

Dizziness is a kind of disturbed sense of relationship we have to space. In other words, environmental conditions make us feel dizzy, and this has very much to do with the built environment and how we experience architecture and urban space. Davide Deriu

3. Episode: Politics of Dizziness

The idea of dizziness creates an interesting potential aperture. 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? Natasha Lennard

4. Episode: Out of Control

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

5. Episode: 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

6. and 7. Epsiode: Supplement – Vertiginous by Dani Gal

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.

Produced in spatial audio, this PodArt is best enjoyed with a high-quality headset.

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

More about the artistic research on Navigating Dizziness Together

Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna