Vocabularies of/for/at the Limit
🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 5:10pm
- 6:30pm
(80 mins)
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Abstract
What can we utter at, with, and of the limit? What languages exist beyond the boundaries of the “known” and “understood”? Why are such experiences frequently intensified by a perceived speechlessness?
This contribution aims to introduce and present the arts-based research project “UNKNOWN BEYOND ABYSS: Toward Vocabularies of/for/at the Limit” (Grant-DOI 10.55776/ART5589424). As such, it offers a collaborative exposure to the project’s core objective: to create vocabularies and related contextualizations that explore the limit and the im/possibility of experiencing and communicating in, with, and out of it.
By sharing this process of exposure to the limit, we adhere to Sara Ahmed’s "Strange Encounters":
“The unknowable is a relation to what is already assumed to be known: it is hence not an absolute. The unknowable is a limit that pushes us to the boundary of the historical and ontological: the ways of being in the world in which being-ness is constituted by the worldliness of the world.”
For all this is to relate to the limit-experience of and through language – a language that would defer rather than refer, indicate rather than signify, suggest rather than state, fragment rather than originate, and reverberate rather than resonate.
This contribution aims to introduce and present the arts-based research project “UNKNOWN BEYOND ABYSS: Toward Vocabularies of/for/at the Limit” (Grant-DOI 10.55776/ART5589424). As such, it offers a collaborative exposure to the project’s core objective: to create vocabularies and related contextualizations that explore the limit and the im/possibility of experiencing and communicating in, with, and out of it.
By sharing this process of exposure to the limit, we adhere to Sara Ahmed’s "Strange Encounters":
“The unknowable is a relation to what is already assumed to be known: it is hence not an absolute. The unknowable is a limit that pushes us to the boundary of the historical and ontological: the ways of being in the world in which being-ness is constituted by the worldliness of the world.”
For all this is to relate to the limit-experience of and through language – a language that would defer rather than refer, indicate rather than signify, suggest rather than state, fragment rather than originate, and reverberate rather than resonate.
Biography
Julia Hölzl is a theorist/lecturer/writer whose work traverses and intersects the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Engaging text in performative gestures, her research and writing practices explore – but are not restricted to – limits, endings, finitude, and transience.
Julia holds PhDs from the European Graduate School and the University of Aberdeen and has taught, researched, and advised across universities in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and the UK.
She is the Principal Investigator of the arts-based research project “UNKNOWN BEYOND ABYSS: Toward Vocabularies of/for/at the Limit” (funded by the Austrian Science Fund).
Julia holds PhDs from the European Graduate School and the University of Aberdeen and has taught, researched, and advised across universities in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and the UK.
She is the Principal Investigator of the arts-based research project “UNKNOWN BEYOND ABYSS: Toward Vocabularies of/for/at the Limit” (funded by the Austrian Science Fund).
