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"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
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"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."


"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."


"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."


"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."


"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."


"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."


"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."


"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."


"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."
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