ELearn more about the secret of Kolams - a traditional art form in Tamil Nadu where women draw complex patterns on the streets before sunrise. This practice combines dance, meditation and contemplation and conveys symbolic messages across generations.
House
Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I now practise meditation. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. I've somehow always done it, I just didn't know it. Like most people, I have phases in which I look inside myself or concentrate on something contemplatively, phases in which [...]
University
Nhe other day, a friend told me how she had grown up in the Ashram School. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children were free to choose what they wanted to learn and when. Very radical: although there was a timetable for languages, history, mathematics, philosophy, gossip, sport, etc., the kids could go wherever they [...]
Free will
In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, i.e. those that see themselves as empirical-scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This in itself is relatively uncontroversial, as the vast majority of theories are based on this assumption. Birth and death mark the cornerstones of this correlation. Now the question arises: What does this correlation look like? [...]
The Complexity of the Universe, the Role of Consciousness and the Isha Upanishad: A Reflection on Existence and Our Place in the Universe
Dhe 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
ELearn more about the challenges faced by young people in the divided Germany of the 1980s and the philosophical debates that revolved around German guilt.
Art in Pondycherry: A look at the artists, their practice and visual language
ELearn more about the artists and their inspiring practices in Pondycherry. Discover the visual language and spiritual depth of the art landscape around Auroville. Delve into the world of art beyond representational conception and discover the vibration of the senses. Experience how the thinking of Deleuze and the Kena Upanishads are interwoven. Be inspired by the question of the body without organs and discover the limits of the physical body.
The misunderstanding of art: a new perspective without representation
Ihis text clears up the misunderstanding about art that it should be a representation. Art is not communication, but a unique experience.