This is the age of the answering machine. Of infinite input fields, of prompts and problem solving,
of algorithmic feeding frenzy. But wait. Who/what is behind this text? Have you been reading these lines for real? Are you
here?
Since 2019 the writer Cordula Daus and the choreographer Charlotta Ruth have explored and trained what might
be the last genuinely human quality: how to question, how to make oneself response-able. Together they have created environments,
performances, writing exercises and live situations where ideas become material to be touched and processed between people.
Questionology – Are you here? is a zine and exercise book for all those who’d like to know more about the
applied art of questioning. Unfolding across three conversations with Brandon LaBelle and Erik Valentin Berg, the zine recombines
tricks and moves from midwives, Socratic maieutics, witchcraft and malfunctioning technology.
Cordula Daus,
Center Research Focus, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Charlotta Ruth, APL – Angewandet Performance
Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna
BOOK PRESENTATION
Questionology was presented
to the public on January 24, 2024, at the studio of APL – Angewandte Performance Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna, together
with Bare
Bodies – Thresholding Life (edited by Mariella Greil) and Ricarda
Denzer – ganz ohr / all ears (edited by Ricarda Denzer and Christian Höllerer).
