bremen summer mornings

powerspeak 1

if they come for us in the morning....

Todesfuge

a horrible jungle

photos by just//just.ekosystem.org

interview brain-magazine

Last month brain-magazine.com conducted an interview with me for their portfolio section. It has been translated into french and can be read here.

on the streets of berlin

berlin afternoons

a couple of days ago i had the exquisite pleasure of being introduced to and spending an afternoon with "just", a brilliant berlin based photographer. we spend an afternoon in the summer-heat getting tangled up in glue and conversation.
here above is some of the shots he got out of it.
all photos by Just / Just.Ekosystem.org

exhibition invitation: "A Horrible Jungle"

It with great pleasure that I can hereby invite you to my first European solo exhibition.
“A HORRIBLE JUNGLE”

A room installation made of drawings, and an archive of things done.
From 16.05.09 to 07.06.09

Opening on the 16th of may, 19.00 o'clock.

Intoxicated Demons gallery (I.D G)
Naunynstrasse 46 / D-10999, Berlin
Germany.
info@intoxicated-demons.com
http://www.intoxicated-demons.com/

hope to see you there
sincerely
A.R

p.s
below I have attached a bit of the text that was written in context of the preparation for this show

“ A Horrible Jungle”
Because I used to regard art and its attached institutions as a method and a space, through which and where I could examine and convey things, I have become a collector of information and images. Because I was secretly hoping that the collected amount of visual debris and human byproduct would yield some kind of answer from which I could wrench out some kind of sense. therefor it seems only natural to me, that I would set out to create an archive.

Most of everything I do seem to be connected to the assembling of information for this notebook on the human condition. Therefor it is not easy for me to identify or name the specific nature of this archive. It is a traveling black box. It is a unsorted pile of vicious and unvictorious information that they brought in the newspapers, the books, the televisions. It is an echo of something that they shouted in the streets, and it is the smell of smoke from its own burning.
Its a theatrical violence report. A letter of acknowledgment of my own subjective fear and
fascination combined with that which is dreadful and violent, grotesque and morbid.

It is a paradox. It is pathos.

It is a collage of registrations and colliding observations.
An examination of the riddle that lies within that which is made visible as well as a study of invisible mechanisms.
It is an attempt to,
create comprehensibility while also striving to break it apart. An axis of accumulated signals and mis-communication.
To “know” each thing and its form.
To make “signs” of the multitudinous, the incomprehensible, the impassable. To make these thing graspable. All the while acknowledging their fleeting and in-graspable nature.
An attempt of decoding through the creation of form in imagery.

To strive to identify those abstract powers that propels us into action.
To make the human figure into a tool, as it has been so often and for so long, through which the language of form can transmit the identity of ”deed”.
It is an attempt to keep nihilism at bay, and positivism in check.

affection in the morning

the archive (in progress)

hoof-beat of law, order and general fear.

great days of confusion and collapse

a talk from denver.....

when i was in denver last month for the install of the show there, i had the pleasure of sitting down with adam gildar and matthew novak from "il.literate magazine". both of them are very sweet and well articulated people and we had a rather lengthy and very interesting discussion. despite attempts to record it, it was lost to the tape, so adam sat down and made a rough transcript of some of it, which can be read here: http://www.illiteratemagazine.com/featured/29

i have no idea why i didn't post this before now, somehow slipped my mind, but the conversation didn't.

photo by matthew novak.