09/07/2025 14:00
- 17:30
HALL: Elise Richter Hall
Proponent:
Böhler A.
Chair:
Böhler A.
Speaker:
Beldio P.,
Böhler A.,
Call N.,
Gansterer N.,
Granzer S.V.,
Holzer S.,
Jägle E.,
Kretz J.,
Müller C.
This panel will explore in theory and in practice the core ideas of artistic research (AR) and performance philosophy (PP) as emerging research-fields in which handed downs forms of doing philosophy in a 'non-sensible' manner are questioned.
Our panel considers 'non-sensible' forms of thinking to be expressions of an ascetic-image-of-thought, in which thinking seems to be performed entirely separate from the sensible realms of one's lived-body. As if it were carried out completely separate from the sensory areas of one's lived-body. One's bodily-felt-sense (Skora), which informs one about the soundness of a thought, therefore rarely matters for an ascetic-image-of-thought, whereas it is usually of great importance for the arts and their aesthetic way of thinking-feeling. It is telling that in Sanskrit, the word for an aesthete is sah?daya, which literally means: somebody, who has a heart; somebody, able to think in accordance with one's heart. And the Chinese word xin (?) 'heart-mind' tellingly refers to the 'heart' and the 'mind' simultaneously.
To effect the socio-epistemological transformation from the ascetic to the aesthetic image of thinking, AR and PP call for new alliances between philosophy and art, experimentally crossing their practices to discover new forms of 'sensitive thinking'. Our panelists, a group of artists, philosophers, scientists and artistic researchers, will thus not only talk about the arts, but also make use of artistic practices in their lecture-performances to stimulate a vibrant research atmosphere in resonance with the heart-mind of the people participating in our panel. They all develop their cardio-philosophies in a close dialogue with Nietzsche's, Aurobindo's and Alfassa's philosophies of the heart from a cross-cultural, Gnostic (vijñana) perspective. All of them are key-researchers in the PEEK-project AR822, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Grant-Doi: 10.55776/AR822. Website: https://www.mdw.ac.at/the.heart/