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).
