PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARTS : ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HEART IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH (AR) AND PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY (PP). PEEK-Project(FWF: AR822). by Arno Boehler

Arts-based-philosophy is an emerging research concept at the cutting edge of the arts, philosophy and the Sciences in which cross-disciplinary research collectives align their research practices to finally stage their investigations in field-performances, shared with the public. Our research explores the significance of the HEART in artistic research and performance philosophy from a cross-cultural perspective, partially based on the concepts of the HEART in the works of two artist-philosophers, in which philosophy already became arts-based-philosophy: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Aurobindo’s poetic opus magnum Savitri. We generally assume that the works of artist-philosophers are not only engaged in “creating concepts” (Deleuze), but their concepts are also meant to be staged artistically to let them bodily matter in fact. The role of the HEART in respect to this process of “bodily mattering” is the core objective under investigation: Firstly, because we hold that atmospheres trigger the HEART of a lived-body to taste the flavor of things it is environmentally engaged with basically in an aesthetic manner (Nietzsche). In this respect the analysis of the classical notion for the aesthete in Indian philosophy and aesthetics, sahṛdaya––which literally means, “somebody, with a HEART”––becomes crucial. Secondly, because the HEART is said to be not just reducible to one’s manifest Nature, but has access to one’s virtual Nature as well. The creation hymn in the oldest of all Vedas (Rgveda) for instance informs us that a HEART is capable of crossing being (sat) & non-being (asat), which makes it fluctuate among these two realms and even allows its aspirations to let virtual possibilities matter. Such concepts show striking similarities with contemporary concepts in philosophy-physics, e.g. the concepts of “virtual particles” and “quantum vacuum fluctuations” (Barad).

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January 17th 2025 Conference. India

2024 Beitrag in "Interkulturelle Phänomenologie. Georg Stengers Werk im Gespräch" Hrg.

Murat Ates und Ľubomír Dunaj, Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber. ISBN 978-3-495-99810-6

December 15th 20:00 Lecture "Insights into Indian Philosophy" at eindorf Kunstraum. "Restor(y)ing the Body" Program: http://www.eindorf.at/2024/11/25/program-restorying/

December 4th-7th 2024 Khora Retreat. Film Script Work (Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granze, Christoph Müller, Evi Jägle)

December 3rd 18:30-20:15 ROTE *HERZENS*ANGELEGENHEIT: Herzkammer #4

with Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer, Lukas Lauermann (Cellist und Komponist), Rote Bar, Volkstheater

https://www.volkstheater.at/produktion/2300382/rote-herzensangelegenheiten/2300481/

November 30th Yoga Study Day. Khora, Kehrbach

November 22nd Lecture. RaT Studientag. Stift Melk.

November 11th 2024 Interview The Creative Practice Researcher: a knowledge (re)turn for the contemporary world. with Dr Smiljana Glisovic and Professor Craig Batty. Australia

November 5th 2024 18:30-20:15 ROTE *HERZENS*ANGELEGENHEIT: Herzkammer #3

mit Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer, Melanie Sidhu (Schauspielerin), Rote Bar, Volkstheater

https://www.volkstheater.at/produktion/2300382/rote-herzensangelegenheiten/2300481/

October 22nd - 24th 2024 Shaken Grounds. Trans-lecture with Arno Böhler and Nikolaus Gansterer. MAXXI Museum Rome, Video Gallery. Program

https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/terreni-scossi-cieli-in-movimenti/

2024 Article. "Gilles Deleuze: Kantlektüren", in: Violetta L. Waibel, Max Brinnich, Gabriele Geml, Philipp Schaller, Immanuel Kant: Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit - Ein vielstim- miger Widerhall. Peer-reviewed + open access.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111386270-015

2024 Article „Ein post-sokratischer Wettstreit. Kant weiterschreiben,“ in: Violetta L. Wai- bel, David Hellbrück (Hrsg.): Immanuel Kant, Critik der Urtheilskraft Spekulation – Rezeption – Denkschule heute. (Accepted. In rpint. Planned publication date 2024)

2024 Article "KHRONOS. Inmitten von Kunst & Philosophie" In: "Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft im Widerstreit. Leonardo Da Vincis Erbschaft heute" mdw Press. Hrg. Violetta L. Waibel, Jakob Deibl

2024 Article "Stille Verwandlung", in: Georg Stenger u. a. (Hrsg.), Sammelband zu Francois Jullien. (Planned to appear in 2024)

August 22nd - September 22nd 2024 Film Recherche in India

October 3rd - 5th 2024 11:00 - 12:30 "Rote Herzensangelegenheiten - Macht & Ohnmacht des GEMÜTS", Lecture-Performance and talk. Leipzig-denkt Festival. Lofft Theater, Leipzig

August 5th 2024. 10:00-11:00 Radiobeitrag "Heart Matters" https://o94.at/programm/sendung/id/2270327

July 29th 2024 Lecture and Workshop “The Interaction of Ancient Indian and Continental Philosophies

in Sri Aurobindo's ‘Integral Yoga’” VdP Summer School

July 14th 2024 18:00 - 20:00 "The Heart of Yoga" Forschungsseminar Iyengar, Hermanngasse 18

June 19th 2024. 18:30-20:00 ROTE *HERZENS*ANGELEGENHEIT: Herzkammer #2

https://www.volkstheater.at/produktion/2300382/rote-herzensangelegenheiten/2300469/

June 20th 2024. 18:00-20:00 Lecture Organization. Michael Hagner (ETH-Zürich). What the heart tells you about the brain and the mind. Im HS 3A (NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien)

June 24th 2024, 18:00 - 20:00 Panel discussion. „Nietzsche’s Cardiophenomenology: Heart matters!“ with Yunus Tuncel (New School New York), Graham Parkes (Vienna) and Arno Böhler (Vienna). 3B (NIG Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien)

June 19th - 23rd 2024. ART-LAB #1. Brut Studios/ KHORA

June 8th 2024. Ludwig Bolzmann Forschungsgruppe. “Künstlerische Forschung: Wie können durch Kunst neue Erkenntnisse entstehen?” Wunde Punkte. Das Forum zu chronischen Wunden und darüber hinaus. Westspace Wien. https://show.lbg.ac.at/wunde-punkte-programm/

May 2nd 2024 Talk at Symposium "Extended competencies in the Arts" Trans- and interdisciplinary research at art universities" HSLU, Luzern

April 17th 2024. “Rote *Herzens* Angelegenheiten”. Performance. Rote Bar, Volkstheater

April 15th 2024. Charitè Berlin and Medicalschool Hamburg, Initiating cooperation. “Development of more efficient therapy tools for psychotherapy from a metacultural perspective”

April 14th 2024. "Die Lehre von den 5 Schichten des Körpers“, Lecture. Filmquartier, Wien, Lecture as part of the yoga training happydots.yoga (Nancy Krüger)

April 3rd 2024. “(creating) Situacions: arts and thought”, Lecture-Workshop. Centre d’arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona

February 22nd 2024. “Yoga-Study-Day”, Philosophy of Yoga - HEART and Breath. KHORA

March 3rd 2024. „Posthuman Social Club“, Lecture-Performance, Studio Molière, Wien

2024. KHÔRA. Sensing Tasting Notating Reflecting Atmospheres. Article. In: Nikolaus Gansterer, Alex Arteaga (eds.), Contingent Agencies. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Accepted. In print. Planned publication date 2024)

2024. Stille Verwandlung, Article. in: Georg Stenger u. a. (Hrsg.), Sammelband zu Francois Jullien. (Planned to appear in 2024)

February 2nd 2024. “PosterCraze”, mdw. Presentation of the project “Philosophy of Art: Art of Philosophy” (FWF funded, Grant-DOI: 10.55776/AR822), Arno Böhler and Susanne Valerie Granzer.

2024. MdW-Press, “Arts in Philosophy : Philosophy in the Arts. Artistic Research and Performance Philosophy in the Making”,mdw-Press. Proposal approved, peer review process begins, Arno Böhler and Susanne Valerie Granzer (Eds.).

December 10th 2023. ”Arno Böhler about The weather is nice, let’s picnic von Oleg Soulimenko / PARASOL. Faltungen der Subjektivität.” TQW Magazin.

January 26th 2024. Reading Circle Organization. . January 26th, 2024.

December 6th 2023. Approval of the research project “Arts in Philosophy : Philosophy in the Arts. On The Significance of the *Heart* in Artistic-Research and Performance Philosophy”

UPCOMING

February 10th-28th Film shoot in Auroville, India (Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer, Johannes Kretz, Christoph Müller, Evi Jägle)

February 24th 17:30-18:30 Lecture Performance. Sri Aurobindo's Gnostic Vision (vijñana) of the Poetic Heart (Kavi hrdaya / sahrdaya). Exhibition House, Pondicherry, India.

This research is funded in whole or in parts by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Grant DOI: 10.55776/ AR822

Article. "Gilles Deleuze: Kantlektüren", in: Violetta L. Waibel, Max Brinnich, Gabriele Geml, Philipp Schaller, Immanuel Kant: Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit - Ein vielstim- miger Widerhall. Peer-reviewed + open access.

VIDEO OF ROTE *HERZENS*ANGELEGENHEITEN

19.06.24

Rote Bar, Volkstheater, Wien

Article. "KHÔRA. Sensing Tasting Notating Reflecting Atmospheres." In: Nikolaus Gansterer, Alex Arteaga (eds.), Contingent Agencies. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2025.

PANEL DISCUSSION „Nietzsche’s Cardiophenomenology: Heart matters!“ with Yunus Tuncel, Graham Parkes and Arno Böhler

VIDEO OF ROTE *HERZENS*ANGELEGENHEITEN 3.12.24

Rote Bar, Volkstheater, Wien

VIDEO OF ROTE *HERZENS*ANGELEGENHEITEN 4.11.24

Rote Bar, Volkstheater, Wien

Shaken Grounds. Trans-lecture with Arno Böhler and Nikolaus Gansterer. MAXXI Museum Rome, Video Gallery

June 19th - 23rd 2024. ART-LAB #1. Brut Studios/ KHORA - TRAILER

Video of Shaken Grounds. Trans-lecture with Arno Böhler and Nikolaus Gansterer. MAXXI Museum Rome, Video Gallery

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