Photography was really the last medium that I wanted to explore
Music has always had a great attraction for me
There is such a number of parallel interests
that make up then the entirety of my work
What joins them is they have an immediacy
and can talk about what it feels like to be alive today
A lot happens through what I don't do
It's not all about the doing, it's about what you don't do
The question of all the pictures you don't take
that is a very conscious decision
All together, it is a sense
of openness and not being afraid
questioning what you see by viewing things from different angles
The eyes are free of charge
and you should trust what you see
and constantly question what you see
I never felt like I'm behind the camera
but it became a fluid way of expression
I was able to enact things in front of the camera
and so it is a performed reality
Jochen and the deer, it's called "Deer Hirsch"
This, for example, is a picture that wasn't staged
but it looks so staged, because how does a deer get to a beach?
But then another picture, for example
"Lutz & Alex sitting in the trees"
Of course people don't sit half-naked in trees
It's not like this was entirely staged and set up
I tried to move to Berlin twice
once in '89 and I ran away after six weeks
and once in '95 and I ran back to London after two months
But then in 2011
I finally decided to move my main studio from London here
Yeah, I witnessed all the early techno years of course
I have made music
I'm interested in the words, in language
and this interest in interaction with an audience and words
and, ultimately, then also music led me
to start and explore that territory
Music is something that I've been passionate about all my life
but now I've found confidence
to actually express that again and give it a form
That's very unique for my life's experience
When me doing exhibitions
there's always my name, it's my book
It's always a solo thing
and so this collaboration experience
is really fantastic and liberating
It is important that in serious times
you don't actually clip yourself, clip your wings
and become safe or cut out the fun
It's important to keep on dancing