We discuss the concept of habit within the tension between freedom and necessity, continuity and disruption. Against the backdrop of historical developments with their specific manifestations, such as the Aristotelian 'hexis', the defining basic attitude that develops through habituation, or the formation of a 'second nature' through practiced 'habitus', we explore the possibilities of habit, its constraints, limitations, and dependencies.
The symposium is part of the event “Art School Cologne/Vienna: Soft Walls, Iterative Behavior” – a collaboration between the Artistic Practice department at the University of Cologne (Prof. Mirjam Thomann, Michel Gockel) and the Institute for Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Prof. Eva Maria Stadler, Sen. Sc. Mag. Jenni Tischer).
17:45-18:30 PM
Thomas Eggerer – Gesture and Territory
in conversation with Eva Maria Stadler
In his paintings, Thomas Eggerer is particularly interested in the interplay between architecture and individual as well as collective movement in space. The touch of a handrail, the color of a wall, the embankment under a bridge, or the arrangement of bodies on an escalator – Thomas Eggerer sees in the indeterminacy of the determinate possibilities for formal processes of social codes, uncertainties, and ambivalences.
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