De Hermeneutische Fitness Studio
Beursschouwburg Brüssel
März 21.-31. März 2001 

"I think with my knees" Joseph Beuys

Every thought is a movement - every movement is a thought.
For "Tom Plischke BDC + Friends" Hygiene Heute is going to
examine the world of philosophical ideas through the fitness
and sports perspective.
You can find describtions of fitness machines and
training programs in almost all of the philosophical
approaches. (as the Plato Nodding Machine, the diogenes
barrol, the Gadamer-circle....): We are in search for sketches
of dialectic machines. We propose: contemplativ training.

Our aim is to translate the philosophical ideas into the
physical language of fitness: A thoughtful training.
The questions we ask ourselves are: How many movements
does it take to understand Sartre? Is it possible to measure
Derrida by push-ups? On which part of the body lies the focus
of Spinoza? How much Hegel is good for your knees?
How often should one train Thomas von Aquin?
Is there a Plato- , Nietzsche- or Wittgensteinprogram?
Our goal is to decode these machine and tool instructions.
This act of translation we understand as a process of continuous
hermeneutical construction: Bricolage. We are going to build up
a parcour of bodily contemplation: De Hermeneutische Fitness Studio.
How to train philosophy? How to understand sports? Reconstructing
the philosophical sweat is what is in our minds.

Installatio - Exercitio - Praesentatio