The creative act as a mode of research: ten emotions - ten films

Ten emotions - an approach to boredom, disgust, sadness, pain, fear, haste, aggression, comfort, joy and even-mindedness. To ask for an understanding of these different emotions, fundamentally different research approaches are required from the point of view of psychology and art. Psychological science relies on theories and tests hypotheses to obtain objective results and to make generalizable statements. The artistic approach, on the other hand, develops highest precision in perception and the analysis of subjective impressions, thoughts and feelings. The process of interaction between introspective perception and materialization in a form as picture, film, composition or sculpture creates the basic prerequisite for exploration and understanding. Out of this process ten artistic video films emerged to approache the nature of the particular emotion being explored. Texts explain the insights the artistic work gained. The video edition consisting the ten films on DVD is part of the work whose goal is to add a new facet to the discourse between science and art and to make the resulting artistic work available to scientific research projects.