08/07/2025 21:15 - 22:00

HALL: Arkadenhof

Böhler A.

On July 8th the Lecture Performance "Notebook of the Heart" will activate the Heart Lab
Tower as a stage for embodied research. Researchers of the FWF-funded project
PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARTS : ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY will share their investigations into
the *heart* as a cross-cultural practice of intuitive reasoning and aesthetic thinking. Drawing
on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Sri Aurobindo and the sacred arts, the performance fuses
theory, poetry, sound, and movement into a sensitive form of mindful research. Featuring
Patrick Beldio, Arno Böhler, Nikolaus Gansterer, Susanne Valerie Granzer, Johannes Kretz,
Sabina Holzer, Evi Jägle and Christoph Müller, the lecture performance "Notebook of the
Heart" stages the *heart* as an attractor of virtual possibilities, ready to actualize themselves
on stage. The audience is invited to inhabit a vibrant field of felt-thoughts and thought-
feelings.
Heart Lab Tower
The Heart Lab Tower is an installation in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna.
Designed as a mobile heart-laboratory (heart-lab), it serves as a poetic-research space and
platform for artistic and philosophical interventions. It invites the participants of the
conference to experience a vibrant space, where thoughts and feelings resonate in one's
*heart* and one's mind simultaneously. Developed in a collaboration between the research
project PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARTS : ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY, funded by the Austrian
Science Fund (FWF Grant-DOI: 10.55776/AR822) and the Research Centre Religion and
Transformation in Contemporary Society (RaT), the Heart Lab Tower stands for cross-
disciplinary inquiry into the significance of the *heart* at the cutting edge of philosophy,
religion and the arts. Stage Design by Hans Hoffer.