Matrixial Breath

Christoph Solstreif-Pirker, PhD, is Professor of Aesthetic Education at the University College of Teacher Education Styria (Austria), a practicing psychotherapist, and an interdisciplinary artist. His artistic and academic work focuses on performative research, encounter-investigations, painting, drawing, sound, and text. After studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and Graz University of Technology, he completed his PhD in artistic research and contemporary art, followed by an MA in philosophy and psychoanalysis under the supervision of Bracha L. Ettinger. His dissertation, titled “Being-Together-With the World-Without-Us,” explored questions of space and subjectivity in the (Post-)Anthropocene, proposing feminine-performative modes of thinking and acting in response to contemporary planetary trauma. His work has been widely recognized and published in journals such as PCS: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Comparative Literature Studies, Ruukku: Studies in Artistic Research, and JAR: Journal for Artistic Research.

• Introduction 1PART I Voluntary Suffocation 13 1 Escaping the Outside 15 2 Synchronized Bliss 27 3 Anesthesia and the End 38 PART II Matrixial Breath – The Rhythms of Feel-Knowing Aerial 49 4 Never Was Heaven 51 5 Fagile Trans-Subjectivity 62 6 Aerials of Subreality 73 PART III Metreorologic Speculations – Toward Ettingerian Environmental Ethics 85 7 From Respiration to Trans-Spiration 87 8 In-Spiration 98 9 Metreorology 108 Conclusion 120 References 125 Index 133