The project “The Stature of Waiting” by the American-Austrian artist Daniel Domig gave me a unique opportunity to compose a text which has the ambition to provide a philosophical theory of “what happens when the artist creates”. Daniel and I cooperate on many other projects in which he offers his paintings for my texts. This time, the interaction changed, and I created a text based on his paintings…

Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd will reflect on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes).

What does it mean to be a Protestant Christian in highly secularised Europe after two years of the Covid pandemic? This is tricky question, and I must confess that I feel a little uneasy about it.

I had a cup of tea with Daniel in his new studio in Vienna, and he unveiled for me the secret of his artistic work. Daniel believes that if his painting does not go through a certain form of sacrifice throughout the creative process, it is not worthy. What exactly does he mean by sacrifice is the subject of our chat. You are welcome to listen to it!

International Workshop 28–29 October 2021 at the Institute for Human Sciences, organised within the FWF Research Project M2947-G “Woman without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories” and co-organised by the Research Centre for Religion and Transformation