PHILOSOPHY
Personality
Unconsciously adopt the public's opinion and think it is your own.
The animal existence is characterized by the harmony between the animal and nature. The animal is an instinctive part of nature and never leaves it. It practically possesses no reason, no awareness of itself and its existence. It acts instinctively and is completely guided by nature through its inherent nature.
When humans developed in evolution and crossed a certain threshold of instinctive adaptation to nature, they ceased to be animals.
The awareness of oneself, reason, and imagination destroy the instinctive harmony with nature that characterizes animal existence.
Through their emergence, humans became an anomaly, a whim of the universe. They are part of nature, subject to its physical laws, which they cannot change, and yet they make themselves independent of nature. They stand apart from it and yet remain a part of it. They are homeless and yet bound to the homeland they share with all creatures. They are cast into the world at a random place and time and must leave it again at another random moment.
Humans are never free from two conflicting tendencies: on the one hand, to break away from the womb of nature, to escape instinctive bondage into freedom; and on the other hand, to return to the womb, to nature, to safety and certainty.
Because they are self-aware, they recognize their powerlessness, their helplessness, and the limits of their existence. They foresee their own end — death.
The human being is the only living creature that perceives its own existence as a problem that must be solved and from which it cannot escape.
They cannot return to the pre-human state of harmony with nature.Humans must continue to develop their reason until they become masters of nature and themselves.
Until then, however, humans must establish a new, artificial unity with nature.Failure in this regard may result in the outbreak of various mental illnesses.But what about humans in today's world?
We live in a society and culture driven by success and profit, not one built on love.
Unconditional love and acceptance, combined with freedom and spontaneity, provide a partial substitute for the lost harmony with nature.
However, the modern human is one whose primary goal is to possess material things, to consume more and more in order to compensate for their inner emptiness, passivity, and fear caused by their separation from nature.
They place their human essence in the service of their livelihood.
At the same time, the pursuit of profit by large consumer industries, through the medium of advertising, turns them into an insatiable being — an eternal infant who constantly desires to consume more. For them, everything becomes a consumer item: cigarettes, alcohol, sex, cinema, television, travel, and even education, books, and lectures.
New artificial needs are created, and people's tastes and independent opinions are manipulated.
They live under the illusion of being happy, while unconsciously suffering from meaninglessness and passivity. They confuse the craving for excitement and thrilling experiences with joy and happiness, and material comfort with vitality.
The more a society cripples the individual, the sicker they become. We live in a state of collective neurosis.
The purpose of my artistic work is to reveal a moment of this societal condition. Real, free, and spontaneous; neurotic and ironic; sensual and insignificant — reality is portrayed relentlessly and without taboos, beyond human repression.
One cause of the guilt we carry with us lies in the fact that we not only suppress the bad but also the real within us, because it does not conform to socially accepted norms.
Artistic expression is symbolic. The metal construction above the lower part represents the universe. The lower part and the statement of the moment depict a human figure, separated from the universe and nature, yet firmly chained to it.
My gratitude goes to the complete works of Erich Fromm.
Without his deep insight into the problem of human existence, my work in this form would never have come into being.
Electronic music — Techno. In my opinion, there is no other contemporary medium that so aptly reveals both the excess of this society and the collective connection of each individual with the universe in the here and now.
