The announced lecture+workshop is a co-operation of the FWF-research project „Generating Bodies“ (Arno Böhler/University Vienna) (TRP12-G21), sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and the Tanzquartier Vienna.

ABSTRACT LECTURE:

This talk reexamines the status of the virtual in perception. As understood philosophically, the virtual (or "pure potentiality") is strictly complementary to the actual, not in opposition or contradiction to it. The virtual is abstract by definition, which means that it cannot be reduced to the empirically present. But neither can it be separated from it. There is a reciprocity between the actual and the virtual that enters actively into the constitution of every act of experience. Although the virtual as such cannot appear in perception, as a factor in constitution of experience it cannot but make itself felt with each perception’s arising. The question then becomes, in what way does the abstractness of the virtual come with coming perception? How does it make its active implication in experience felt? What is a virtual image? Is there such a thing as virtual event? If so, in what sense can virtual events be said to have value? The talk develops throughout a realist account of the virtual as "lived abstraction."

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Friday October 4^th 13:00-15:00 h, Studios Tanzquartier Vienna

Erin Manning and Brian Massumi are exploring the relations between vision, movement and language by means of selected examples from the arts, activism and performance, such as The Forsythe Companys Woolf Phrase (2000), a project, which transforms the specific language of the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolfs into dance.

For more information, see:

FWF-Projekt "Generating bodies" (TRP 12-G21): http://homepage.univie.ac.at/arno.boehler/php/?page_id=548

Tanzquartier, Wien: http://www.tqw.at/