post loveparade

The Love Parade in july 2010 in Duisburg ended in a tragedy. 21 people died due to a mass panic in a massively overcrowded festival area. As people tried to enter or leave the festival through two tunnels at the same time people collapsed, were crushed to death or ran over. Until today neither the management nor the city or police admitted responsibility for the deaths of these people.
a week ago i went to see the area with my own eyes trying to compare the images and videos made by eye witnesses with what i would experience. These videos that can be found throughout the internet had become a memory for myself. indeed, i have never physically witnessed any of the events, but i have acquired this "post-memory" through visual media. if you are interested in reading about "post-memory" in relation to photograpy there is an interesting essay to be found here.
ps: the term itself is being used for a transmission of memory of traumatic events to the next generation that did not witness those.

S=Save

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i will continue to sing

It has been a while and sometimes i thought it would be too late anyway...
but it wasn't even though the mist in front of my eyes remained thick for a long time.
nostalgia is heavily linked with myself; i keep on longing for things that have been long gone. people, places and times...#
some weeks ago my only external harddrive died and with it all my digital photos that i had taken in the past 10 years. i was about to create a backup of the data, but it failed to do so when the hdd did not start again. i cannot really tell why i was not upset. i simply wasn't. from time to time some of these digital photos pop back into my mind and i can clearly see them in my mind. they are still there, somewhere in the depths of my memory.
the film negative is something else. i still have hundreds of them stored at my friend's place in london. since my move to hamburg in the summer of 2009 i have not been taking any analogue photographs.
finally, i got my camera, and i will continue to sing for nostalgia....

they taught him things

They taught him things...(2010) from Time Emitter on Vimeo.

christmas fools

Clothes pegs continued

Hamburg, Bellealliancestrasse

Tennisballs Interventions continued

Hamburg,Clemens-Schulz Strasse




Hamburg, Hein-Hoyer-Strasse




Hamburg,Clemens-Schulz Strasse

Dockville Festival 2010

thx to tom

drop box

looking for something
in every corner of the room
then outside
with the wind on my face


strange looks
when i asked for the way


i thought i had arrived
but i was walking in a circle


an old sign warned me to open the box


but when i did
i could not hear, could not see


there are no islands
where you can sit and breathe


when i thought i was quicker
the lizzard escaped my hands


sleeping all day with my eyes open
walking all night


and when you run again
i will be as quick as you


we will meet here
and remember those days gone by

tennis ball intervention

Hamburg St.pauli
hafenstrasse (close to pudels)tennisballs in braille

innerspeakers

clubfoot

(fake-)street sign (@ hamburger berg)
mixed media
thx to tina

µ

thx to stefan
thx to lukas
thx to malte

oh sister, where light thou?

oh brother, where night thou?

from cater.pillar to post

The reaction to his words was the kind of silence with which we greet the warbling

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do"