Research Catalogue

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).

An immersive documentary film experience of a shamanic ceremony.

espaço inútil é um convite à ativação de experiências que rompam automatismos com relação ao espaço, à sensibilidade e, no limite, à própria vida. A aposta é instalar dispositivos alienígenas aos contextos onde são introduzidos, sejam eles espaços públicos ou institucionais. espaço inútil provoca fissuras nas sensibilidades automatizadas. Ao interagir e ativar as instalações, os próprios corpos que se propõe ao jogo, à experimentação e à pausa, improvisam novas coreografias do cotidiano, criando uma poética do inesperado. Temos vivido um contexto de adoecimento e de pobreza de experiências sensoriais, sensíveis e lúdicas. Se as forças que regem a contemporaneidade consomem a energia de cultivar a própria vitalidade, há ainda menos margem para o cultivo dos encontros. Três dispositivos criam espaço e tempo de inutilidade

PhD project: Art and Conservation in the Post-Conflict, Supervisor: Cristina Garcia Grinda + Efrén Diaz Moreno Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

PhD project: Ancestral Junctures: On the Expansion of Ancestral Mythologies, Supervisor: Hans Schabus Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

PhD project: Technique Concerns: Ballet Practice Against the Western Archive, Supervisors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna