One Orange Feather flight ^
Imagine a Future Landscape as a linguistic landscape,
communicational cultures without violations, ...
Globally, one in three women experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Among young people, online spaces are increasingly dangerous: one in five youth has experienced cyberbullying, and girls and LGBTQ+ youth are disproportionate targets of hate speech and harassment.
Violation starts in communication, and is mostly followed by physical violence.
These statistics underscore an urgent need for safer, respectful communication.
How may we learn to practice more assertive, meek and empathic communication?
The project series underscores the need to address the root causes of violence—not just isolated incidents but the broader culture of harmful communication that often precedes and enables it. The practice of conscious breathing becomes a symbolic act of mindful interaction, promoted by the Orange Feather as a reminder to pause, reflect, and choose words with care, fostering empathy and respect in every exchange.
“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”
L.W. proposition 4.52: adapted from Diary, 23 Apr 1916.
Alma Mater Europea University: Applied AI platform ^art-based attempts to AIpictograms of our time i-Proposition: meaning in use ^ embodied imaginationAI companion playan aeronautical investigation and thought experiment re-imagined by the each new attempt^re-imagining to ´grasp words correctly ^îspeci pa recilocating surroundings with somatechnics^Gedankenexperiment ^ thought experiment(by a fury attempt) Allow yourself to fully feel the fury, the rush of frustration or anger that brought you here. Let it rise, but don’t let it lead you. Instead, take a step back and ask yourself:See the Orange Feather over there? think about the cause of your "fury" and it´s rootWhat is the root of this fury?Is it fear, a sense of injustice, or perhaps even something more personal? Name it, if you can. Allow yourself to understand its origins, not just the reaction it stirs.Imagine consequences by acting "with fury"What if the fury takes a lead of your action?Picture what happens if you act on your fury immediately, without reflection. See the ripples spreading outwards. Who is affected? What unintended outcomes might arise?re-imagine, imagine otherwise ... Take a deep breath in. Hold it for a few moments.Now, imagine the Orange Feather gliding gracefully, carried on this breath, down into the wings of your lungs, expanding gently through each of the 150 million alveoli.Breathe out slowly through your mouth, and feel the fury soften, feel it float, as if on the feather itself, until it fades.^Now, imagine your fury-cause with ´One Orange Feather flying´ explore shift in imagination, translate it into some another language, (not the word, but the object)and the fury-causeDoes it have some other meaning and intensity? Does it feel different, lighter, or less urgent? Perhaps a new insight comes into focus.Imagine describing the source of your fury using a word from another language, but don’t just translate it—reimagine the object or feeling itself, as if you could see or feel it through a different culture’s perception. Choose a language that is new to you.. Imagine how this culture might interpret the experience of fury.Notice the Shift:Does this new context change how you see your fury? Does the intensity lessen or deepen? Does the image transform?This exercise can serve as a tool to foster inner resilience and empathy, creating a pause where reflection can replace reaction, enabling communication that clears, rather than harms.Inspirational Thought: "I know the direction from which the sound comes; for instance, I look in that direction. It is the same with the idea that it must be some feature of our pain that advises us of the whereabouts of the pain in the body, and some feature of our memory image that tells us the time to which it belongs. (LW. PI, p. 185)
attempts, translations, assemblage, investigations in process
multimedia artworks on interface with applied linguistics, cognitive humanities and sociology
in response to one of the currently most urgent societal challenges:
hate speech_ physical violence
an therapeutic, art-based approach to prevention of violence,
leaning on
Ludwig Wittgenstein's analyses about imagination
(Philosophische Untersuchungen ^Language Games, Blue & Brown Notebooks, Zettel), Ludwig Wittgenstein - Lecture on Ethics
J. P. Lederach notions on Moral Imagination,
and the B. Brecht´s Radio theory, M. Foucault´s parrhesia_body of practices
new media technologies, in the narrative of sustainable development goals
#stayinlove re-imagine, changing views, seeing in other aspecs
How can conditions be re-imagined, and transformed,
What if the moral imagination (Vorstellung) can serve as a mental (reason) and emotional (sensorial state, in the practice of embodied play within a web of relations,? How to transcend violence starting from the capacity to generate, mobilise, and build a moral imagination?
(Lederach, 1995; 2005)
Imagination fulfills also a methodical role, because we can visualise imaginary cases similar to Gedankenexperimente
(L.W. in PU, §312)
with
Orange Feather as a
tertium comparationis:
"One knows the position of one's limbs and their movements... [with] no local sign about the sensation. (...) such attention to one's movements and feelings can hinder the smooth execution of willed action (L.W. Zettel, 483).: "self-observation makes my action, my movements uncertain" (L.W. Zettel, 592).
Investigations within diverse Playgrounds,
playing with diverse actors, technologies, senses, bricks and pillars
Concept, artistic and theoretical basis:
Tatjana Christelbauer MA
in collaboration with blind teachers and students at the Vienna Institute for Blind BBI and Prof. Alice Siu, Deliberation. Platform Stanford University
inTalk on linguistic technologies with Prof. dr. Cvetana Krstev &
Prof. dr. Ranka Stankovic Head of the RO RGF Computer Center
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology
Orange Feather Flight performance
&
"If fear is frightful and if while it goes on I am conscious of my breathing and of a tension in my face, is that to say I feel these feelings frightful ?
Might they not even be a mitigation ?"
(L.W. Zettel, 484-499)
^The result of the imaginative experiment will be so clear that there will be no need to conduct a physical experiment at all ^
associated pillars, helpers, builders, bricks, feathers and aspects
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