Konference — Rhythmus Messy Cambio

Olivier Rossel organized and held a conference in Kunstraum in Basel. The aim was to find out what roller skating dancing, notating body performance with roller skates has to do with reading, chaos, tacit knowledge etc.. Mathis Vass is an artist and roller skater who dances according to drawings of a notation system he developed.

'Messy, by some authors of posthuman-oriented literature refers to states of being that variously interact with and upon each other. That turbulent facts that can hardly (or not at all) be grasped by humans, however, do produce productive moments, should be clear at least since the accidental discovery and exploration of radioactivity by Antoine Henri Becquerel and Marie Skłodowska Curie. Conference #3 therefore explores the suspicion that Messy does not simply stand for an indescribable confusion of things and living beings, but rather contains a multi-layered epistemic tumbling that can constantly challenge artistic and scientific perspectives and justifications anew.