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
yesterday i published two new photographic works here on this website, which are the results of my trips to japan and poland, where i visited hiroshima two years ago and auschwitz two months ago. in my picture montages „realising the incomprehensible“ i put the two places of horror in relation to each other pictorially. in…
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…
we will give a concert at the kassette, düsseldorf. we hope to see you there.
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.
two montages of snapshots taken in 2006 with the camera of the motorola razr v3 smartphone. some of them show lost, personal objects in the volksgarten. the work reflects the difficult situation i found myself in at that time – privately and professionally.
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…