TURNING POINT

The performative lecture Turning Point explores, using the body in motion, lived experience, and available knowledge, particularly from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, the layers and spaces of fear and its associated processes. It invites the viewer to take on the role of both researcher and (self-)examined in a dialogue with (their) fear.

 

Fear is a basic emotion that has a protective function. For millions of years, it has helped us survive.

 

In today's modern world, however, we are often exposed to situations in which our evolutionarily hardwired freeze-fight-flight responses are not functional. We remain trapped in the inner maze of our fears, lost, disconnected, bombarded by bodily reactions without the ability to take adequate action.

 

How else can we deal with fear? Can we use it? Can it even be the driving force behind important life changes? And what does it take for such a transformation of fear to take place? What happens when we turn around and look it in the eye?