1 Languages of Emotion
A Shadow Carousel with Scholarly Showpeople

Photos: Thomas Aurin

For two years, the research association “Languages of Emotion” has been plumbing the connections between emotions and signaling practices, bundling scientific competences from more than 20 disciplines in the humanities and natural sciences, each with its own traditions of thinking about emotions. For the last 20 years, research on emotions has mostly ignored the role of language, while research on language has ignored the role of emotions. The cluster’s multidisciplinary structure aims to change this from both sides.
40 scientists present their themes and research at the “Showplace of Intimacy” in discussion with specialized colleagues, interested parties, and clients:

Admiration. Aging. Alexithymia. Anxiety. Beauty. Brooding. Chainsaw. Coolness. Curiosity. Dementia. Disgust. Fake Feelings. Fans and Fandom. Fascination. Forgiveness. Hymn-like Veneration. Melodrama. Mimesis. National Pride. Pride. Rural Life. Shame. The Hague. Obsession. Uncanny Places. Vexation. Zebra Finches.

All of the dialogs can be followed on five radio channels in the parlamonium, a cross between a translation transmitter and a synaethesia module. To use the words of Walter Benjamin, the parlamonium transforms human speech, which does not sound good, into a pleasant music of the spheres.

In the Apparatus: the Mirror of the Soul
The excellence cluster brings its eye-tracking system from Dahlem to Kreuzberg and the lobby of the Hebbel Theater and offers the audience an opportunity for a unique experience of itself.
With the aid of eye-motion registration that records the eye’s fixations and saccades while reading, thereby observing, for example, whether the reader lingers or flies over words and sentences, a new moving text image emerges. This is usually used to examine the effectiveness of advertising campaigns or the user-friendliness of Internet pages. But can’t we assume that eye motions during reading (how do I read de Sade?) permit conclusions about inner processes? Aiding in the voluntary evaluation are a confrontation with one’s own prejudices and an etymologist.

>> The Carousel Ensemble

Donnerstag 03.12.2009
Fahrt 1

VEREHRUNG & FASZINATION
Dr. Andreas Degen – Veronika Zink

LANDLEBEN
Dr. Benno Gammerl – Jochen Hick

TANZEN
Dr. Catherine Newmark – Sasha Waltz

FAN & FANTUM
Dr. Johannes Windrich – Lars Schnell

WIR-GEFÜHL
Prof. Dr. Gavin Sullivan – Christoph Biermann

Fahrt 2

ANGST
Prof. Dr. Anette Gerok-Reiter – Curt A. Roesler

DER KERNSPINTOMOGRAF I
Publikum – Dr. Jürgen Baudewig

GEFÜHLSBLINDHEIT
Prof. Dr. Isabella Heuser – Alexithymiker

BÜRGERLICHE GEFÜHLE
PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek – Prof. Dr.
Christian von Scheve

DAS ALTER
Dr. med. Oliver Peters – Libgart Schwarz

Fahrt 3

GESCHICHTE DER GEFÜHLE
Prof. Dr. Helga de la Motte – Dr. Catherine
Newmark

OFFENHEIT
Publikum – Dr. Benno Gammerl

EMOTIONSREGULIERUNG
Dr. med. Stefan Röpke – Prof. Dr. Gavin Sullivan

TECHNO
Ekkehardt Windrich – Dr. Johannes Windrich

IKONEN
Publikum – Veronika Zink

Freitag 04.12.2009
Fahrt 1

MUSIK
Prof. Dr. Helga de la Motte – Dr. Eva Weber-Guskar

DER WALD
Dr. Julian Hanich – PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek

VERGEBUNG
Dr. Natalija Basic – Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve

KRACHMANDEL
Publikum – Prof. Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius

BESESSENHEIT
Dr. med. Stefan Röpke – Prof. Dr. Ute Luig

Fahrt 2

CARAVAGGIO
Dr. Isabel Dziobek – Prof. Dr. Klaus Krüger

COOLNESS
Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein – Diana McCarty

SICH LANGZIEHEN
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter – Susanne Linke

EVOLUTION
Prof. Dr. Winfried Menninghaus – Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Sigrid
Weigel

DER VOGELTANGO
Prof. Dr. Constance Scharff – Cord Riechelmann

Fahrt 3

DAS GRÜBELN
PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek – Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj

GRENZEN
Publikum – Dr. med. Stefan Röpke

DIE KETTENSÄGE
Dr. Julian Hanich – Jörg Buttgereit

DROGE
Publikum –Dr. med. Ph.D. Nicolas Langlitz

SCHAM
Prof. Dr. Gisela Klann-Delius – Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler

Samstag 05.12.2009
Fahrt 1

DEN HAAG
Dr. Natalija Basic – Prof. Dr. Holm Sundhaussen

DER KERNSPINTOMOGRAF II
Publikum – Dr. Jürgen Baudewig

ERINNERUNG
Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler – Prof. Dr. Hans J.
Markowitsch

ZWIESPÄLTIGE GEFÜHLE
Dr. Philipp Ekardt – Prof. Dr. Gertrud Koch

ÜBER BERATUNG
Publikum – Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho

Fahrt 2

SCHAM & STOLZ
Prof. Dr. Michael Eid – Imran Ayata

GEFÜHLSBLINDHEIT
Prof. Dr. Isabella Heuser – Prof. Dr. Marie- Luise
Angerer

SCHÖNHEIT
Prof. Dr. Thomas Jacobsen –PD Dr. rer.nat.Kerstin Palm

KÖRPER-SEELE
Dr. Catherine Newmark – Martin Clausen

DIE OPER
Prof. Dr. Clemens Risi – Sandra Leupold

Fahrt 3

ZWISCHENBERICHT
Verwertungsfiliale

REALISMUS & GEFÜHL
Dr. Philipp Ekardt – Dr. Armen Avanessian

EIN MENSCHENBILD
Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren – Prof. Dr. Britta Schinzel

MIMESIS
Dr. Isabel Dziobek – Samuel Finzi

AUFRÄUMEN
Publikum – Dr. Natalija Basic