FAHRT OHNE KOMPASS

w/ Gilles Jacot, Judith Kakon, Arnaud Wohlhauser, Jiajia Zhang, Paula Henrike Herrmann & Benedikt Bock

6th & 7th July 2022
Zentralwäscherei Zürich
17:00 – 23:00

Opening
Wednesday 6th of July

Texte zum Nachdenken
Thursday 7th July
19:30 Quinn Latimer (Reading)
20:15 GKW (Audioplay by Moïra Gilliéron, Ariane Koch, Zino Wey)
21:00 Marja Marlene Lechner (Concert Performance)

“A knowledge about the world (plants, food, the animal world, tools) has been replaced by a knowledge that permanently generates new worlds via technologies. […] Comparable to the early sailors, it is a matter of learning to read the constellation of stars in the sky. A stable “knowledge of the world” is replaced by the ability to orient oneself in it with all the senses. Like track seekers in a terra incognita, it is necessary to grasp every small change in a constantly changing environment, it is necessary to grasp symptoms and to determine one’s own point of view again and again. The lifeworlds of our time are not stable units, they develop dynamically—fixed concepts exist only for short periods of time. It is like navigating on an open sea. How can one succeed in orienting oneself in such a world, individually or as a community?“*

In a time without compass, it can help to direct one’s gaze towards an imaginary goal. How one can come closer to this inner image, how one could possibly grasp it or even transform it from a hunch into a physical object, there is no recipe for this either, but countless possibilities of actions whose effects we cannot plan or know. Apparently there are actions of which we do not know where they lead us, actions which we have to commit in order to know afterwards where they have led us. Lived orientation instead of conceptual determinations. One’s own map of experiences as a smile over Google Maps and confidence as a helpful hiking pole.
*Wörterbuch der Gegenwart, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2019

Curated by Paula Henrike Herrmann & Benedikt Bock