Salon on July 06, 2023
About Vertigo
Discussion on the current FWF project Navigating Vertigo: Artistic Research on Vertigo in Social and Physical Environments.
Guests: Prof. Ruth Anderwald and Prof. Leonhard Grond
Vertigo makes us sway, stirs us up, takes the ground from under our feet; it unsettles and destabilizes what we perceive as stable and secure. However, vertigo can also be euphoric, even clarifying. According to Plato, vertigo is the origin of all philosophy precisely because it destabilizes in us what we assume to be unshakable and thus reveals to us what our thinking relies on. We often begin to sway imperceptibly, seemingly suddenly, and gradually lose our ability to control. This experience can trigger both joy and fear and consternation – in any case, we find ourselves in a state of uncertainty and vulnerability: we become uncertain about ourselves. For the project Navigating Vertigo, Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond, together with Laura Brechmann, Julia Strikovska, and Leo Hosp, as well as international researchers and artists, examine the phenomenon of vertigo from different perspectives – theoretical, somatic, architectural, social, and artistic, whether performative, literary, or visual – to reveal strategies for navigating social and physical environments. This project aims to create room for action to navigate the equally destructive and fruitful potential of vertigo states more mindfully.
Salon on June 13, 2023
Film_Psychiatry
Double feature in English with Dr Mireille Berton, Lausanne/Switzerland, and Tobias Dietrich, Bremen/Germany
Mireille Berton: “Psychiatric film as a historical source. The case of the Waldau collection (1920-1970)”
The SNSF project “Cinema and (Neuro)psychiatry in Switzerland: around the Waldau collections” (2021-20125) intends to study the uses of the film medium by psychiatrists and neurologists in their practices as researchers and teachers in Switzerland between 1920 and 1970. It focuses particularly on the archive of the German psychiatrist Ernst Grünthal, who was responsible for about a hundred short films made in the Laboratory of Cerebral Anatomy (Hirnanatomisches Institut) affiliated with the Waldau psychiatric hospital in the canton of Bern.
Salon on June 13, 2023
Film_Psychiatry
Double feature in English with Dr Mireille Berton, Lausanne/Switzerland, and Tobias Dietrich, Bremen/Germany
Mireille Berton: “Psychiatric film as a historical source. The case of the Waldau collection (1920-1970)”
The SNSF project “Cinema and (Neuro)psychiatry in Switzerland: around the Waldau collections” (2021-20125) intends to study the uses of the film medium by psychiatrists and neurologists in their practices as researchers and teachers in Switzerland between 1920 and 1970. It focuses particularly on the archive of the German psychiatrist Ernst Grünthal, who was responsible for about a hundred short films made in the Laboratory of Cerebral Anatomy (Hirnanatomisches Institut) affiliated with the Waldau psychiatric hospital in the canton of Bern.
IMHAR on Tour on March 29, 2023
With their joint contribution “Lying in: Bed,” Angela Alves, Monika Ankele, and Céline Kaiser from IMHAR were invited to the “Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities.”
