covergirl

12.04.2012

 

Mein Kaliningrader Tagebuch auf dem Cover des Katalogs für die Ausstellung im Herbst 2011 in Kaliningrad.








NEON TRAGIC THEATRE

16.02.2011

New issue of legwork out now: http://legwork.cc/  I'm in the meeting room. Hang with me. x

 



Back with the interwebz, off for the holidays!

22.12.2010

Merry christmas and unicorns everyone! 

 


FANATIC FAIRIES!

25.10.2010

Roxette (1977/78) colour - sound - 16mm - 15m 58s

Student documentary profiling young Roxy Music fans - they talk about the band and the music, are seen out and about in Manchester and getting ready for a concert at the Opera House. Includes footage of a tribute band, who due to a lack of musical instruments use household appliances to make music. 

NWFA catalogue

 


IT S ABOUT TIME! or how i invented endless summer

22.09.2010

Like all great things it happened out of a moment of superabundance and fun. I declared to siegmar that i'm going to execute my project in six weeks during june. siegmar was laughing and pointed out that june, like the majority of yearly months, consists of four and a half weeks. damn it i thought followed by SO WHAT? It's my party and i decide the rules. In the style of the republican calendar during the french revolution i came up with my own time reckoning: YetAnotherAmazingWeekOfJune =YAAWOJ! Right now it's YAAWOJ#17. 

 


The devil wears unicorn

18.09.2010

Yes, it's her. 



the stuff i composed when i was 5 years old!!!

12.09.2010

looking at my paintings from kindergarten has a calming effect on me. thank god i already peaked as a 5 year old. makes the rest of my artistic ventures so much more fun. now everything is the icing on the cake. 

 

read on...


MIND IS THE MAGIC step#2 *establishing eye contact*

19.08.2010

in the ever so slowly but beautifully unfolding ATTEMPT ON SINGING #1 VEGAS STYLE me and ari put on some siegfried+roy drag the other day. 

no that's not us. that's the original. jump to see our version.

  read on...


DESPERATELY SEEKING EINAR # 2 Berlin, Nußbaumallee

05.08.2010

starting in the mid ninties i spent my weekends in berlin. i mainly stayed at my friend katha's place. i just realized that it was next door to einar schleef's house. 

my teenage self and einar used to be next door neighbours! 


Beethoven

31.07.2010

short clip taken from wassermusik talk between alexander kluge and michel serres, hkw berlin, july 31st 2010.


catching up with some greek gods

28.07.2010

so i went to pergamon museum to see this exhibtion. right up my alley. once i saw the statues in full glam gear, and they went for colour with capital letters back in the days, that's when i finally understood the idea of mimesis. apparently colour played a huge part in the aim to imitate life vividly. the statues really talk differently to you once they are brightly coloured. the eye -or my eyes for that matter- were more busy, more affectionated. i would compare my eye activity to the sound an old fridge creates when it starts cooling. buzzing, is that the word? however, i started to look at the statues in a more casual way after a while. i saw the fashion, or more precisely the sense for style, of the old greeks. i felt like browsing through a cut-in-stone  fashion blog. you know like one of these contemporary bloggers who tries to find and capture beautiful clothes, hair and make up on beautiful people on the streets of hip urban areas like neue schönhauser strasse (lol!). anyways, the fashion itself from the people portrayed in the greek statues reminded me A LOT of the clothing a certain type of partygoer wears these days. 

new raver on unicorn.  read on...


the other day in SANGERHAUSEN

28.07.2010

desperately seeking einar #1. read on...


OCCUPYING POPULAR SCIENCE #1

17.06.2010

Some months ago I read a book by Josef Reichholf called “Warum die Menschen seßhaft wurden”[1]. I liked the way Reichholf approached his subject. Reinterpreting the known facts about the neolithic revolution he stressed that crucial steps in the process of civilisation happen out of a situation of abundance and they only sustain when they are connected to crucial and pleasing advantages that last. His mix of critical point of view and fun-centred thinking stuck with me. I would call him a suspiciously positive bastard of an academic for this matter. His main point being that people opted to change from being hunters and nomads to settle down, start farming … because they needed the corn for massive celebrations. First there was the beer and then there was the bread. The collective consumption of drugs being not just the glue for community but a main tool for civilising innovation. Great! My hillbilly East German mind made the obvious connection: If I want to find innovation in my field of work (=theatre), I have to look out for the party. Thanks to Josef I found a key element to structure my activities. A brand was born. GIVE ME YOUR GOLD. Celebration, pleasure, superabundance! One of my favourite chapters of the book deals with unicorns. Reichholf knows for a fact that they were around and still are. Dude rules.
 
 
[1] Josef Reichholf: Warum die Menschen seßhaft wurden. Das große Rätsel unserer Geschichte” Frankfurt am Main, 2008.