 Igreja Positivista, 2008 Auguste Comte (1798–1857) was a French mathematician and philosopher. The positivist philosophy he founded was marked by a quasi-religious faith in scientific discovery and progress. Comte's motto "Love as principle, order as foundation, progress as goal" still exists in a shortened form "Order and Progress" on the Brazilian flag today. The video work Igreja Positivista documents the interior of a temple of the positivist church in Rio de Janeiro, which was founded on Comte's teachings. In it, the abandoned church building comes across like a mausoleum for the project of an "atheistic Catholicism," whose core consists of love, compassion and respect for human achievements. Florian Meyer, * 1976, Berlin (D), lives and works in Karlsruhe (D)  Florian Meyer, Igreja Positivista, 2008 video (colour, sound) 16:30 min., loop music: Olga Neuwirth, HOOLOOMOOLOO Klangforum Wien, Kairos 0012242KAI © by G. Ricordi & Co. München, Sy.3342 Courtesy Florian Meyer
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