Nietzsche 5 : The Fragmentary
(2016)
author(s): Michael Schwab, Paulo de Assis
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
‘Nietzsche 5 : The Fragmentary’ is a collaborative research exposition, which presents a number of compositions by the young Friedrich Nietzsche (organised top to bottom) as well as various layers of reflection, interrogation, and speculation (organised left to right). It focuses on a moment of transformation around 1872 when Nietzsche moved from a serious interest in music composition to a career as a writer and philosopher. This period also coincides with the breakdown of Nietzsche’s friendship with Richard Wagner. The exposition suggests that Nietzsche’s own music as well as that of Wagner serves as a (negative) point of reference for the later Nietzsche, whose work, following Maurice Blanchot amongst others, can be characterised through the notion of the fragmentary, which places it also in relation to early Romanticism, in particular the writings of Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, and Friedrich Hölderlin. While Nietzsche’s more monumental compositions, such as his unfinished Mass (1860) and the symphonic poem Ermanarich (1861), may be more problematic, the exposition suggests that in some smaller pieces – in particular in So lach doch mal (1862) and Das ‘Fragment an sich’ (1871) – a sense of the fragmentary in Nietzsche may already be constructed.
Beyond interpretations that focus more narrowly on Nietzsche’s work, this research exposition sets out to render the notion of the fragmentary productive for the wider context of artistic research. It does so with reference to Nietzsche’s notion of the untimely as a way to challenge both the dominant instrumentalisation of research and the notion of contemporaneity that seems central to present-day artistic practice. This not only provides perspectives into artistic epistemologies but also, more concretely, provides the methodology by which the research itself and its exposition have progressed. The overall mode is, thus, also that of the fragmentary, in which various media including text and image as well as audio and video recordings are distributed across a two-dimensional grid allowing multiple relationships and readings to emerge. The research exposition aims not only to discuss but ultimately also to employ the fragmentary so as to touch upon a specific artistic and intellectual motivation that we have come to identify with Nietzsche and which we suggest is also relevant today.
baseCollective. Philosophy as Artistic Research. Residence in India
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Arno Boehler
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
In the research retreat, students from 4 art universities as well as the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Vienna are offered a cross-disciplinary research seminar, in which art students together with master students of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna collectively develop research strategies in a research retreat in India, in which a research question is addressed with methods and means of artistic & philosophical research. In this retreat, the teaching and research formats "arts-based-philosophy" and "Philosophy On Stage" developed by Böhler & Granzer over 25 years are applied, in which artistic and philosophical research methods are cross-disciplinarily intersected with each other.
artist philosophers [AR 275-G21]
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Arno Boehler
connected to: University of Applied Arts Vienna
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
From the very beginning of European philosophy the relation between philosophy and arts has been highly problematic. In accordance with this historical demand, the project aimed to develop a research performance in which philosophy is methodologically and conceptually demonstrated as a matter of arts-based research rather then a “pure” science.
By organizing a research-festival “PHILOSOPHY ON STAGE #4”, artists, philosophers and scientists collaborated to demonstrate on stage their theoria on the artist-philosopher.
Nietzsche N
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Lucia D'Errico, Paulo de Assis
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Nietzsche N is a broader artistic research project on the music of Nietzsche and a satellite project of MusicExperiment21 [ME21] (PI: Paulo de Assis, Orpheus Institute Ghent, BE). Nietzsche N is being realised by Paulo de Assis, Michael Schwab, Valentin Gloor, Lucia D’Errico, and Juan Parra C.
From the very beginning of European philosophy the relation between philosophy and arts has been highly problematic. In accordance with this historical demand, the project aimed to develop a research performance in which philosophy is methodologically and conceptually demonstrated as a matter of arts-based research rather then a “pure” science. By organizing a research-festival “PHILOSOPHY ON STAGE #4”, artists, philosophers and scientists collaborated to demonstrate on stage their theoria on the artist-philosopher.open exposition comments (0)
Nietzsche N is a broader artistic research project on the music of Nietzsche and a satellite project of MusicExperiment21 [ME21] (PI: Paulo de Assis, Orpheus Institute Ghent, BE). Nietzsche N is being realised by Paulo de Assis, Michael Schwab, Valentin Gloor, Lucia D’Errico, and Juan Parra C.open exposition comments (0)