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we go again. as I was dreaming about keeping the kinetic energy to get through
the winter I feel like having slowed down, maybe frozen already. I find myself
in organizing, producing and preparing while I am getting nothing. working in
a bubble I cannot get out. I still witness myself as very productive but the question
of ‘why’ rises and is getting more and more dominant. why am I doing it anyway?
my obsessive production processes feel ridiculous…
above you see me during
the opening of ‘zeitenwende’ at forum für kunst und architektur in essen. it was
well organized and I met many kind, interesting and interested people, but I did
not feel like going there in advance. I did it because it was on schedule, it
did not really made me happy although I am happy to be chosen and able to exhibit.
a strange feeling of loosing kinetic energy, is this what burn-out feels like?
we are considering an artist talk and I have announced to participate, not doing
it won´t answer any problem at all. I feel exhausted in many aspects of my duty,
profession and creations. the journal helps a lot, not only as therapy writing,
also as proof that I go through the same episodes annually at the beginning of
the year. I made it through the last year, I now I feel exhausted, I´d need a
break and i am starting the new one. it feels like walking in led shoes. will
it be better in summer?
 i
wanted to visit the museum folkwang on new year´s day, as a colleague dismissed
our date after an extra day of work on a saturday I decided to face the museum
alone. it did not get me this time, art is usually the answer to dark days, if
you enter a show with a bad mood you will only find dark and flat pieces. however,
I was surprised to discover an assembly of works by michel majerus. I have a strong
fascination for his work, to me he is a kind of luxembourgish basquiat, even if
this label is completely wrong. majerus is driven and samples motifs and styles
to adapt into his own body of work. I often take gerhard richter as an archetype
for my changings of genre and style as a musician, majerus might be the archetype
to record of tides’ ‘purchases’ series. you simply take pieces, sometimes not
larger than the atom itself and compose it into a wider and weirder composition
(isn’t this what the universe does all the time since a billion years?). it can
be intellectual and funny, isn´t this the perfect piece?

also I wanted to join the opening of the ‘stopover’ show of photography students
in the museums basement. as I was installing my screen myself (the big flat screen
decided to not function anymore) I missed the opening, so my bad mood saturday
afternoon offered the opportunity to finally have a look at the show. I was surprised
to see that only half of the basement was used for the show. the work of volker
crone made an impression and made me think: at first the large panels appear as
night sky photographs, a second look the stars appear as tiny holes while the
cut-out material is stored in match boxes in the middle of the room. I was wondering,
when we erase something, where does it go?

two weeks ago the electric café and eurorack ruhr created an event at makroscope
featuring a lot of cables and machines to make noise with. it was great to see
all the mates from electric café again, to chat and make plans an enjoy the music,
which was all great. my highlight was o.s.cilliator a.k.a. oliver schupp who owned
the stage with an all live house and song driven performance. it is great to see
the scene emerge and I am proud to be a humble part of it. you might like
to find out more about this night in the report by alfred arnold over at empulsiv.de.


I wanted to do a glitch hop set for a while now and offered the concept to some
venues harvesting a lot of frustration, so I am more than surprised to present
two shows now. I even feel scared of my own idea, I drafted it and it was put
on the schedule by others and now it is happening with me not knowing exactly
what may happen. it is exciting anyway, it may turn out great or lame, two chances,
we´ll see… these dates are standalone events for fun, somehow they are also
promotional dates for the ‘post internet’ album (which is lying around finised
since two years…). it is hilarious, I am already finishing the album after the
album after ‘post internet’ and it will be great material. in this context I am
also working with artists and directors to have the right video for it. so I will
come up with another but final video by matthias danberg for ‘post internet’ and
I am recently working with christopher terhart, robin moedder and chris huff on
upcoming material. there is great stuff ahead… I am taking the visual site
very serious here, but I do not want to do it all on my own as I found people
willing to work with me and contribute to the project and as I am thankful for
their fantastic input. I have realized to start working on the album covers when
I feel an album in production, I guess the cover is as important as the music,
maybe the cover is everything most people know about an album, maybe it is a door
opener to some… keep an eye on the internet, great stuff is coming, for the meantime
let´s have some fun:
glitch
hop hdj sets microsite all
info in the live section
 I
just found this picture I have to share with you: autechre, aphex twin, squarepusher
and nightmares on wax are posing as warp records super group, taken around 2000.
This is pretty much nailing where I want to go with my projects: being part of
a group, still being completely individual and autonomous, superstars in an exquisite
scene that is meaningless to the flat mainstream. this picture illustrates a fantasy
which might never been real. prefuse 73 is missing in the picture, he had been
dismissed from the label for unknown reasons after numerous releases. it happened
years later, this is also part of the truth and the broken fantasy.

  
 sven
piayda | the impossibility to take pictures of the present Z E I T E N W E
N D E forum kunst und architektur, essen 2023-01-22 – 2023-02-12,
opening 2023-01-22, 3 pm
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