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To be on the verge of something is to be at a place where something is about to begin and something else is about to end. When we experience the whirling sensation of vertigo we lose our balance. On the verge of vertigo, we nearly lose our equilibrium. The temptation of whirling brings us close to this loss, and yet it doesn’t bring us quite there. On the verge of vertigo, you sense stability and imbalance at the same time, and yet you have neither of them. What if this becomes the way we live our lives, an ambivalence in which culture is practiced and identity produced?

Pages # 5, On the Verge of Vertigo was made possible through contributions by Sven Augustijnen, Marius Babias, Igor Dobricic, Ana Dzokic, Majeed Eslami, Mohammadreza Haeri, Wietske Maas, Omid Mehregan, Saed Meshky, Marc Neelen, Dan Perjovschi, Alireza Rasoulinezhad, Shadmehr Rastin, Irit Rogoff and Kianoosh Vahabi.

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