Oh young folk —
if you fear death,
die now!
Having died once
you won't die again.
(Hakuin Ekaku)



In this installation, works developed under a similar theme are brought together in a multi-media way: the piano piece #1 enables spontaneous concentration on the moment through a repeated sequence of short events isolated from each other by long pauses, thereby consciously negating any context formed by memory. Acoustically separated from the piano piece by means of different time structures and dynamic progressions, the audio piece 4, Sonam, a non-linear collage of musical quotes, everyday noises, and spoken words, is heard, forming the soundtrack for the video 4, Haircuts, which, in its dramatization of a trivial everyday process, addresses the complex relationship between moment and memory. The photographic works from the portfolio The Process of Memory reflect on images as mutually overlapping and contradictory directions of perception and memory.

Finally, the sculpture, whose formal design was essentially obtained from chance operations, on the one hand forms the framework for the common theme in its abstraction of urban architecture and at the same time provides the place that allows sculpture, photography, video and music to be related as autonomous media in a value-neutral manner without losing their respective autonomy. Thus, rather a social model is being designed here than the attempt being made to stage a totalitarian Gesamtkunstwerk or a multimedia spectacle.