Hitze Lecture: Claudia Bosse
Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021 - 19:00 Uhr
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
19 May 2021, 19.00 h via Zoom
Claudia Bosse
Choreographer and director, theatercombinat, Vienna
HEAT and ORGAN reading
an assemblage of texts, thoughts and acts
HEAT
In the brain is the hypothalamus, the "heat regulation centre", which ensures a constant temperature in the brain, heart, kidneys and liver. By increasing the temperature, the body eliminates invaders, because viruses, bacteria and others are adapted to the normal body temperature and are damaged at higher temperatures.
36.5°C - 37.4°C: Normal temperature
37.5°C - 38.0°C: Subfebrile temperature
38.1°C - 38.5°C: Slight fever
38.6°C - 39.0°C: Moderate fever
39.1°C - 39.9°C: High fever
40.0°C - 42.0°C: Very high fever
LIGHT
we eat light
we are light eaters
as the sun's energy becomes a plant or meat or a threat
not linear but cyclical processes
circular ecologies
so we are always part of something else with others
we absorb
what others emit and vice versa.
LIVER & FUTURE
the etruscans read the future from lightning, the flight of birds, the grazing of a killed animal
the liver gave information about the state of the world
the position and colour of the entrails of an open body
makes visible the present and future environment
a ritual connected the stars with the organ of the oracle
the breath is the smoke that rises from the liver
the babylonians made a collection of omens in which they noted
how to read a liver. omens as signs
which mean something and have a meaning.
their agriculture was determined by reading the moon,
which is only visible when the light of the sun hits it.
the etruscans in turn made clay and bronze models of the liver
to train the interpreters of the liver
with maps of their cosmology scratched onto a model organ
“As humans reshape the landscape, we forget what was there before.”
H. Swanson, A. Tsing, N. Bubandt, E. Gan, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet