Summary:
For the Your Own Spaces conference, we would like to propose both a screening and a
paper dealing with an experimentation based on a re-reading of the theory of the philosopher
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985). Plessner’s concept of “excentric positionality” (exzentrische
Positionalität) designates a fundamental form of the understanding of human life in
its relationship to human’s animal body and to its surroundings. This relationship entails a
distance from oneself and a dynamic of spatialisation that presents a utopian dimension.
In the video ƒ in between the levels organic life, a human character, f, acts as an agent of
a specific perception, projection, and spatialisation. Trying to take the position of non-human
species through play, f points to other “positionalities”, animal and plant, and he activates
some of their parameters that he is able to share while being human.
f embodies this relationship in a particularly eloquent manner, to such an extent that he
asks viewers to consider image and the acting of the character through a specific perspective
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