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 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…
The work „5 grams“ presents a gold tooth next to gold jewellery in a showcase. it does not address the victim himself, but the coldness of a system that sought profit even in death. the showcase, a symbol of desire and museum distance, makes the unspeakable visible and at the same time unbearable. the gold…
Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the first prelude to the concept album “anti düsseldorf,” an experimental journey from classical sounds to granular destruction and synthesis — a conceptual project that explores the boundaries and the questionable nature of the decades-long hegemony of sequential music.
we will give a concert at the kassette, düsseldorf. we hope to see you there.
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…
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…