PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARTS : ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY. CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HEART IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH AND PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY.

WITH: Arno Böhler (PI, artist-philosopher) and our “core Artistic Research Ensemble” (cARE): Aurelio (SVARAM), Patrick Beldio (South-Asian-Studies), Jyoti Dogra (Performer), Nikolaus Gansterer (Painter), Susanne V. Granzer (Actress), Florian Reiners (Actor/Speech trainer), Sabina Holzer (Dancer), Johannes Kretz (Musician), Stefan Dobner (Cardiologist), Tanja Traxler (Quantum Physicist), Yunus Tuncel (Nietzsche Scholar), Evi Jägle (PhD), Christoph Müller (PhD)
Sponsered by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant-DOI: 10.55776/AR822

The artistic research aims to explore the significance of the heart (intuitive reason) for artistic research and performance philosophy from a cross-cultural perspective. The investigations are based on the concepts of the heart in the works of two artist-philosophers, who gave us a delicate taste of what art-based-philosophy could be, once the arts and philosophy cross their potentials: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Aurobindo’s poetic opus magnum Savitri.
Sponsered by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant-DOI: 10.55776/AR822.
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2484805/2484806

second gesture
IMAGINING THE HEART

Fragment of the artistic research for the conference of the European Academy of Religion Vienna.

Can we continue to reach towards the dark place where we find birth, where we find creation, where we begin to be? Moment by moment. Pulse by pulse. Breath by breath.

Imagining the Heart invites to a somatic, practice-based approach to the cardiovascular system of the human body. It is an exploration of philosophy-based artistic research that traces the translations and
transformations of spoken and written words into choreo-graphy, gestures and actions. Thinking here is intrinsic to a sensitive form of embodiment and mattering. The attention is drawn to embodiment, imaginaries, materiality, and corporeal relations in ethics that extend beyond the
individual, inspired by post-modern dance, yoga practice and resource-oriented ecology.

Videostills. Camera by Daphne von Schrader

‚To give birth to a dancing star‘ (as Nietzsche puts it) is envisioned as an fierce act of surrender, gratitude, permeability and receptivity in which the human body is expanded into living maps that are radically entangled with more-than-human agencies. The subjective sense becomes part of the
surrounding atmospheres and questions the dichotomy of mind-matter, subject-object, and nature-culture critically. In this processing investigation of shardaya, – an aesthetic of the heart —, figuration for imagining and living otherwise might emerge, be welcomed and celebrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P04_V_KIWOw

first gesture
HEART MATTERS

These are excerpts of the first gesture, a lecture-performance of my contribution to the project „on the significance of the heart“, which was shown at the Volkstheater, Rote Bar Vienna, Festwochen, 2024.

A project founded by national and international research partners FWF; mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna,(ARC-mdw); SVARAM; ADISHAKTI Laboratory for Theatre Art Research; BRUT Wien; Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna; Volkstheater Wien and cattravelsnotalone.