Fear & belonging
Fear also stands for the longing for connection and belonging. We approach this feeling together.
“Rather, in the face of anxiety there prevails a pervasive and puzzling lack of clarity about what it is actually directed at. It would thus be an appropriate response of people who become aware of the idea that they are living at the end of their own world.”
– Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (our translation)
Fear has many faces: fear in the face of real threats in the world — and the fear of exclusion. Where it remains unspoken, dogmatism arises, and narrow spaces in which some things become unsayable.
Philosophy in part describes anxiety as an objectless emotion: less the fear of something specific than the fear of change, of an unfamiliar state. This is exactly where the workshop begins — with the question of how a sense of connection to oneself and to others can grow out of fear.
Physically, we work with the polarities in which fear shows itself: tension and release, control and letting go, withdrawal and opening.
The concrete design is adapted to the topic, the group and the occasion.
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