Stoffwechsel: "Normality" - with my digital presence from the boat

The second part of my wonderful research cluster's "Stoffwechsel - Ecologies of Collaboration" full-year occupation with Normality will unfortunately happen without my physical presence, since I am still floating down the Danube (currently shortly before Lom, Bulgaria). However, I will be able to send some digital greetings / contributions both at the opening as well as the closing event. On the 15th, in two days, you will be able to hear the draft of the audio-composition I am putting together using the MS Fusion (and the winds and the waves) as an instrument. On the 21st I will "zoom in" (the new zooming out?) I will - most likely read some of that poem ("Die Donau hinab") I am writing along the kms of the river. 

Find more details below and here.

We live between the suffering of normality and the dreams of another normality.
„What is normal, who is normal, who or what is not? What is a norm anyway?“ How is normality formed in society and what sets such processes in motion? Where are the boundaries of normality, how and through what are they shifted? To what extent can a life outside normality function? What role does art play in this field of reference?
The Denkkollektiv #7 explores the phenomena of normality and deviation from it as a construction of conforming and non-conforming ways of life. Of patterns of behavior, posture and movement of bodies, psyches, souls, couples, social groups, organizations and collectives.
„Normality“ oscillates between the terror of submission to a ruling norm on the one hand, and the longing for comforting habits and everyday rituals on the other. Normality is not an unchanging essence, but an ever-transforming process of intra- and extra-societal negotiation of values, boundaries, identities, and affiliations. All that we call normal today has by no means always been so and will not be so in the future. The collective experience of the suspension of so-called „normality“ by the state policies in the „Corona crisis“ of the last 2 years calls for renegotiation of normality, for impulses for new, processual normalities.
„What is normal for me?“ Based on the respective particular answers of the participants, the Denkkollektiv #7 artistically and reflectively explores present ways of life, and asks for new life possibilities.

 

Sa 22.-Sa 29.1. 2022 & Fr 16.-Di 20.9.2022// artistc research

Thur 15. & Wed 21.9.2022 // 19.00 // OPEN LAB
Bräuhausgasse 40/Souterrain, 1050 Wien

 

Photos by Sabrina Bühn