today I published a new remix under my artist’s name oonard. the basic samples are taken from a jam session of my band rhein. title: 2022 (die verstoerte republik)*, this refers to the present mental situation in germany. the people in my homeland seem to be very confused about the situation – too much crisis in too short time. and so their favorite word now is: verstört. crazy.
* the disturbed republic
after lengthy deliberations on how to contextualise the 6 million ai-generated portraits so that their relation to mass destruction becomes visible, i finally came up with a solution. with that, the conceptual preparations are complete, now it’s time to programme and find a place for the installation.
when i first encountered postmodern thinking as a student (paul feyerabend, wider den methodenzwang), i was fascinated by the fact that it expressed my discomfort with academia and seemed to provide an answer to how the stubborn and boring, downright hostile progress in knowledge could be revitalised. but later i saw the fatal consequences of postmodern…
in ausschwitz birkenau i photographed the ruins of crematorium iii in the light of the setting sun. the scene reminded me strongly of caspar david friedrich and the fact that hitler and speer planned their buildings in such a way that they would still have made an imposing impression after a thousand years. admittedly, rather…
we will give a concert at the kassette, düsseldorf. we hope to see you there.
i kept asking myself how one could imagine the unimaginable amount of 6 million people killed. but you can visualise it: if you line up 6 million people, you get a human chain of incredible 3,500 kilometres. this corresponds to the distance bordeaux – moscow. my new work tries to show the systematic killing of…
in the beginning – there was improvisation: at a rehearsal in the early 10s of the band rhein, they once tried to improvise krautrock. jo rix and peter michael witt played the same instruments as always – synthesizer and electric guitar – jürgen krause switched to bass guitar, the beat was set by a simple…