INTRA call 2020
Passenger Diaries
– performative research on emergent subjectivities in trans-urban space
Contact: Mariella Greil
At a time when social media tempt us to keep diaries disclosed on a global scale,
the question arises anew: how to share the intimate quotidian life that unpredictably unfolds day by day? How to find our
way into the landscape of days (
Gegend der Tage)? At the same time, we experience tough and strange days in which
all our relationships to our diverse environments (
Umwelten) change, and must change. We are already used to calling
this change ‘climate change’. But have we yet understood what it really means, and what follows from it? This equally intimate
and experimental project
Passenger Diaries is a testing ground for a journey into another life in the close neighbourhood
that is as personal as it is oriented towards the environment, urban and suburban spaces. To enter this close range is itself
the passage we seek and attempt.
The Passenger, inspired by Iggy Pop's mythical
song,
is understood as a ‘cloud’, a ‘state’ that can be adopted by going on a micro-trip, a state one can ‘host’ for the duration
of this trip in order to learn, hands on, to experience the ecological density of the diverse worlds and environments in which
we move.
The team will invite guests to share those trips with them, while everyone active and receptive becomes
an unamed provider of
The Passenger, both host and quasi-author of all documents produced. Sometimes this multiple
cloud of experience, movement and understanding also moves between times and the documents and media that simultaneously separate
and connect these times. The trace of this process, again partly travelling in social media, we call the
diary of
this
passenger. It will be manifest as a public blog.
In three
Salons de Passages social situations
will be created for sharing and exchanging around the micro-trippings together with guests who are active in the fields of
urban planning, care economy, historical research, media, the arts, performance and other fields of experience and expertise.
Key researcher: KT Zakravsky, Lucie Strecker, Mariella Greil
Contact: Mariella Greilpassengerdiaries.uni-ak.ac.atPhoto © The Passenger
Photo © The Passenger