How To Exit a Reality: Cosmologies of Space, Attention and Spectatorship
A keynote lecture by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT
Artistic Research Day | Artistic Research and Imagination, Fontys Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg
21 January 2023, 12:30-14:00 hrs
In the session Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT will share some of the principles from their long term research under the umbrella name Spectra - Space Is an Organism, where they explore the relationship between attention and an embodied experience of space: how the (re)organisation of attention and space affects one’s sense of ‘reality’ and the modes of spectatorship emerging from it. How – when the logics of attention and space are altered – might a new ‘imaginal’ space appear in their overlap?
The session will focus on the overlaps of dream logic, escape room (gameplay) logic and deep-time cosmological logic behind their recent performance How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) and site-responsive audio-visual installation Looking-Glass House, both in collaboration with the moon.
The session will include practical exercises where the participants are invited to work with dream mapping and escape room principles to develop playful performative in-disciplinary or transdisiplinary setups.