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Temples in Tamil Nadu: A connection to thousands of years of knowledge and science

Places and Travels·HinduismIndiaTamil NaduTempleKnowledgeApril 28, 20232 Min. Lesezeit

The Archaeology Department of Tamil Nadu has officially counted thousands of temples. Learn more about the significance of these temples and their millennia-old knowledge. #Archaeology #temples #TamilNadu

The central questions of philosophy: the nature of the world, the image and consciousness

Art and Perception·NatureRepresentationDeathPerceptionKnowledgeApril 26, 20232 Min. Lesezeit

The basic problem of philosophy lies in the perception of the world and the questions that arise from this. The sciences and religions offer different approaches. OM

The secret of the Kolams: meditation, art and tradition in Tamil Nadu

Places and Travels·HinduismIndiaArtLanguageSilenceTamil NaduKnowledgeApril 22, 20235 Min. Lesezeit

Learn more about the secret of Kolams – a traditional art form in Tamil Nadu where women draw intricate patterns on the streets before sunrise. This practice combines dance, meditation, and contemplation, conveying symbolic messages across generations.

What is art allowed to do?

Art and Perception·DifferenceLoveRepresentationLanguageTechnologyPerceptionTo becomeApril 16, 20239 Min. Lesezeit

Recently, in Auroville, a play by the landlords of Bharat Nivas was removed from the program. The reason given was that some in the community took offense to it even before it was performed. This raises questions. What is art allowed to do, when is a ban justified? Coupled with this, of course, is the question of what the task of art is, what art should therefore do. The question invites reflection on the role of art in general, here in India and...

House

Philosophy and Consciousness·DeleuzeUpanishadsPerceptionTo becomeApril 10, 20237 Min. Lesezeit

Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I am now practicing meditation. It has taken me a long time to admit this to myself. I have somehow always done this, I just didn't know it. Like most people, I have phases where I look inside myself, or concentrate on something contemplatively, phases where I try to calm my mind, or figure out what this self within me actually is, phases where I try to understand what my…

Manifestation of latent images

Auroville·DeleuzeMoviePhotographyMediaTechnologyTo becomeMarch 30, 20235 Min. Lesezeit

Exhibition „Roots From the Sky“ by Cedric Bregnard at Centre d’Art, Auroville March 2023 Cedric Bregnard is an artist in residence at the Centre d’Art in Auroville. Over the next 2 months, he will take a photograph of the Banyan tree in the Matrimandir garden. This photograph will then be scaled to the size of a wall (approx. 3x7m) in the gallery. Residents of Auroville are invited to trace the light and shadows on the bark, leaves, and roots in ink onto the wall. What lies behind this process...

University

Auroville·AurovilleTo becomeKnowledgeYogaMarch 29, 20234 Min. Lesezeit

Recently, a friend told me how she grew up in the Ashram school. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children could freely choose what they wanted to learn and when. It was quite radical: there was a schedule for languages, history, math, philosophy, gossip, sports, etc., but the kids could go wherever they wanted. And so, each child received exactly what they needed for their own development. If a child needed gossip, then that was...

Free will

Philosophy and Consciousness·BrahmanDifferenceBodyPerceptionTo becomeMarch 25, 20235 Min. Lesezeit

In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, that is, those that consider themselves empirically scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively uncontroversial in itself, as virtually all frameworks proceed from this assumption. Birth and death mark the endpoints of this correlation. The question then arises: What does this correlation look like? Does consciousness determine matter, or does matter determine consciousness, or is it an interaction? 3 variants of the relation between consciousness and matter The first…

The Complexity of the Universe, the Role of Consciousness and the Isha Upanishad: A Reflection on Existence and Our Place in the Universe

Indian Philosophy and Practice·BrahmanLoveUpanishadsKnowledgeMarch 21, 20233 Min. Lesezeit

The Isha Upanishad poses the question of the complexity of the universe and reminds us of the origin of knowledge. Find out more here.

Beauty and delight

Critique and Farewell·KantArtPerceptionMarch 19, 20235 Min. Lesezeit

Find out more about the challenges faced by young people in the divided Germany of the 1980s and the philosophical debates that revolved around German guilt.

Focus point

Art and Perception·MovieArtRepresentationPerceptionTo becomeMarch 18, 20233 Min. Lesezeit

What would a world be like without the focal point of a lens? Our eyes have a lens that bundles light, focusing it onto a plane so that the retina can capture this focused image – as an image on a single plane. The light rays are captured by receptors and relayed to the brain. This vibration of nerve cells is transcribed into another vibration, that of consciousness. This principle was copied in the camera obscura and the cinematographer, and forms the basis of classical photography and film...

Art in Pondycherry: A look at the artists, their practice and visual language

Art and Perception·DeleuzeExperienceImmanenceRepresentationLanguagePerceptionTo becomeMarch 4, 20237 Min. Lesezeit

Learn more about the artists and their inspiring practices in Pondycherry. Discover the visual language and spiritual depth of the art landscape around Auroville. Immerse yourself in the world of art beyond representational conception and discover the vibration of the senses. Experience how Deleuze's thinking and the Kena Upanishads are interwoven. Be inspired by the question of the body without organs and discover the limits of the physical body.

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