Perpetual motion of no sense, 2009
In principle this video is meant to be shown on a flat screen, hanging just like a painting on a wall, more or less as a decorative element. The video is without a beginning or an end, because it visualizes the perpetual motion of in-consequent behavior.
I belong to the first generation of lucky ones who did not have to face the destruction of war personally. Nevertheless, because I grew up with elderly people, I got confronted, on almost daily basis, with stories of the Great War and the Second World War.
When I was a child, one of my great uncles told me that he and many others with him believed that after the Great War ended in 1918, people will avoid anything that leads to war again because of the immense loss of human life and destruction of everything beautiful, they experienced personally.
Later on he told me, with a beer in his hand and a sarcastic smile on his face, that his belief in "never war again" sounded in 1939 as a big joke. The wheels of destruction never stop turning. If it is not on this side of the globe then it is happening somewhere else.
I belong to the first generation of lucky ones who did not have to face the destruction of war personally. Nevertheless, because I grew up with elderly people, I got confronted, on almost daily basis, with stories of the Great War and the Second World War.
When I was a child, one of my great uncles told me that he and many others with him believed that after the Great War ended in 1918, people will avoid anything that leads to war again because of the immense loss of human life and destruction of everything beautiful, they experienced personally.
Later on he told me, with a beer in his hand and a sarcastic smile on his face, that his belief in "never war again" sounded in 1939 as a big joke. The wheels of destruction never stop turning. If it is not on this side of the globe then it is happening somewhere else.