My early experience of state violence, through corporal punishment in English schools, leads to the strong motive of wanting to work toward a just society. Yet in my experience this can only happen outside institutions and outside the opportunism toward the market, which I have perceived since early childhood, in its mechanisms between rewarding (wages) and punishing, as corrupt and brutal. Out of this conflict, in my inner resistance, I move through 30 years of searching for an attitude, for a way of living and working that enables a reintegration of the human being and of the entire experienced reality into society and the economy. In striving to survive as a whole human being and consequently to preserve the entire ecosystem as valuable, I resist toxic structures, withdraw from false economic logics and patterns, fail, attempt, describe, make publicly visible. I begin the “actual work” as the attempt of the human being to orient themself toward the truly immediate, the humane and the comprehensively relevant, in order to establish a new economy that understands value in a broader sense.
Many encounters and private moments shape the work. Therefore, this retrospective is more than just showing works, but illustrates a long path of three decades in the search for a humane answer to the economic and social questions of our time.
Touched upon are topics such as the future of work, New Work, Universal Basic Income, alternative economy, as well as the horrors of the state’s treatment of people in poverty. Throughout all the years the essential focus is to arrive, through the path of subjective intervention, through the free individual who preserves diversity, at insights and understandings that reveal chances for a development that goes beyond the brutal logic of a simplifying capitalism.
Projects, Positions, Theories, Models and Resistances from 1989–2024
2024 – Persecution by far-right-motivated public prosecutors in Brandenburg, who criminalised and pathologised artistic work
2023 – Completion of the feature film “Transferprotokoll” starring Kirsten Nehberg, Lulu Bail, Adisat Semenitsch and Serkan Sahan
2021 – Invitation to the event “Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge” at Schauspiel Hannover
2021 – What is it like when one has fought for democracy and Europe for decades and, after Brexit, is no longer allowed to take part in any democratic election worldwide?
2020 – The Corona year. A caesura for art
2019 – Capitalism disproved, and now?
2019 – Radical Worker – On the right to self-determined work
2018 – Made ill by the state. Positions on mobbing, and on fraud by civil servants, in the context of Hartz IV
2017 – Massive criticism of the Hartz IV system – Research on poverty and society deepens
2016 – Participation in the Capitalism Tribunal in Vienna
2016 – Organic Television – Total restructuring of the media, conflict with Liz Mohn
2016 – The Physics of the Poor – Against the reality of materialism
2015 – Universal Basic Income achieved!
2015 – Brutal weeks of an insane government
2015 – Intima – The true forces of the market.
2014 – Letter from Eugen Drewermann
2013 – Worker – Success is coincidence
2013 – Application as director of ZDF and as host of Wetten, dass…?
2012 – Strength in poverty
2011 – Bankruptcy through engagement
2010 – Retreat into the tent – Exploration of alternative economy
2010 – Red Bull – When I threatened to kill a bull
2010 – On Silvia Bovenschen’s sofa.
2009 – The soul of Josef Ackermann
2009 – Black Day 09 – We simulate the crisis
2009 – Johanna Quandt and the swastika logo
2009 – Ruining the economy with conference appearances
2008 – Cold nights in the holiday suite of Federal President Kirchschläger
2007 – Guilt and miracles – The cave of Mariastein
2007 – Encounter with Frithjof Bergmann
2007 – Economic mafia – An innovation centre for Sardinia
2007 – Critical examination of Social Business
2007 – The reinvention of holistic management.
2006 – Participation in Dropping Knowledge
2005 – Memes – Work for US presidential adviser Don E. Beck and Dorothea Zimmer
2004 – Call from the people of the Marshall Plan
2004 – For a different television. From revolution to Kika scandal
2004 – Child and art
2003 – Years in Wünsdorf. Research on totalitarian systems
2003 – Creatives abolished. Off into precarity!
2002 – Documentary film by Norbert Buse
2002 – Scandal at TYPO in Berlin
2001 – Dennis Hopper misses his flight
2001 – 9/11 changes everything
2001 – Damned sexy – Break with media design
2000 – Interview with Neil Postman
1999 – On the train with Peter Weibel.
1998 – No paparazzi, one year after Diana
1998 – Work for the New Economy
1997 – Early Berlin years.
1996 – The corpse photographer – Vienna period
1995 – Encounter with Gerald Kreutzbruck, Stanislav Grof and transpersonal psychology
1994 – Off to Vienna!
1992 – Bohemia – Time of bizarre order
1991 – Nude model and system refuser
1991 – Drinking and discussing with Wolfgang Bauer, H. C. Artmann and letters to Friederike Mayröcker
1990 – Cosmic order
1989 – Protest reading in front of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz
1989 – Training years at the Ortweinschule under media artist Richard Kriesche and the queer film duo Michael Satzinger and Johannes Steger
1988 – Haider and the arson attack in Graz
1986 – First theatre play
1985 – Early experiences with state violence