May the Circle Remain Unbroken

<p>KATHRIN (JUNE 20, 2008): I watched your film Loboda and listened to the sound piece His Living Voice over and over again and marveled at the mysteriousness of the two works. If I remember correctly, you exhibited them in a hut-like setting along with maps. Can you say something about the background of these two works?</p> <p>ANDREAS (JUNE 23): Both pieces are part of the installation May the Circle Remain Unbroken, which—as you mentioned—also consists of a series of altered maps and an altered print. All these elements are centered around issues connected to back-to-nature movements, like self-sustaining, anarchic freedom, self-awareness, and a fundamental criticism of industrial society. Loboda was, somehow, the starting point for this installation. The film portrays a solitary hut from different angles that I found during a holiday in Poland in 2005. It had something of the ideal place out in the country about it, beautiful, romantic, and calm, but there was also something disturbing. It was as if you could imagine that something really bad might have happened in there. There was no way to have a proper look at the inside, just a peek through a tiny slot between the window shutters that didn’t really reveal anything. So the film somehow reflects this ambivalence. It can be seen as an amateur holiday film, a documentation of some sort of crime scene, or of an historical place…</p>