PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARTS : ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY CROSS-CULTURAL R

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 practices to finally stage their research in field-performances, shared with the public. Our research aims to explore the significance of the *heart* (intuitive reason) for artistic research and performance philosophy from a cross-cultural perspective. The investigations are based on the concepts of the *heart* in the works of two artist-philosophers, who gave us a delicate taste of what art-based- philosophy could be, once art and philosophy cross their potentials: Nietzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Aurobindos poetic opus magnum Savitri. Our artistic research methods will include the following research formats: art-labs, a notebook, a mobile heart-lab and 12 field-performances, in which the voices of contemporary Physics, Cardiology, South- Asian-Studies, Nietzsche-Studies and the arts will be staged on two research festivals Philosophy On Stage#6-#7 in Vienna (BRUT Wien) and in India (ADHISHAKTI Laboratory for Theatre Art Research and SVARAM Music Research). The format *field-performance* has been developed by Böhler (PI) and Granzer over the last 25 years as an innovative method to stage philosophical questions in cross- disciplinary manner in touch with the public. What is new in the conception of the *heart* in Nietzsche and Aurobindo is their common claim, that a *heart* implies a virtual plane of possibilities. *Hearts* are drawn toward a future to come which make them attractors of possibilities, ready to matter. In its deepest depth, a *heart* cares for the event of a future that has not yet mattered by creating a taste (bodily-felt-sense) that allows one to feel the possibility of a future, right before it actually does matter, flash and collapse. Such concepts show striking similarities with contemporary concepts in philosophy-physics, e.g. the concepts of virtual particles and quantum vacuum fluctuations (Barad, Traxler). It is telling, that in Indian philosophy and aesthetics an aesthete is called sahdayaa term, which literally means somebody, with a heart. As if an aesthete would be a person that is defined by thinking in alignment with his/her *heart* and not against his/her *heart*. Arno Böhler (PI, artist-philosopher) and our core Artistic Research Ensemble (cARE): Aurelio (SVARAM), Patrick Beldio (South-Asian-Studies), Jyoti Dogra (Performer), Nikolaus Gansterer (Painter), Susanne V. Granzer (Actress), Florian Reiners (Actor/Speech trainer), Sabina Holzer (Dancer), Johannes Kretz (Musician), Stefan Dobner (Cardiologist), Tanja Traxler (Quantum Physicist), Yunus Tuncel (Nietzsche Scholar), Evi Jägle (PhD), Christoph Müller (PhD). Co-operating institutions: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (ARC-mdw), Adishakti Theatre Research (India), Svaram Musical Instruments and Research (India), BRUT WIEN, Volkstheater Wien, University of Vienna.