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

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

24. Juni 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)

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

PAST ACTIVITIES

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/

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

April 15th 2024. Charitè Berlin and Medicalschool Hamburg, Initiating cooperation

April 14th 2024. "Die Lehre von den 5 Schichten des Körpers“, Lecture

April 3rd 2024. “(creating) Situacions: arts and thought”, Lecture-Workshop

February 22nd 2024. “Yoga-Study-Day”, KHORA

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

2024. KHÔRA. Sensing Tasting Notating Reflecting Atmospheres. Article

2024. Stille Verwandlung, Article

February 2nd 2024. “PosterCraze”, mdw.

2024. MdW-Press, “Arts in Philosophy : Philosophy in the Arts. Artistic Research and Performance Philosophy in the Making”,mdw-Press

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.

Dezember 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”

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

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