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 doing so i asked myself what one actually sees when standing at these places of remembrance. and how much one actually looks inwards in the process.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…