Flying Carpet: laser cut carpets

A copperplate print from 1886, made on the occasion of the funeral
procession for Ludwig II., who died under mysterious circumstances,
shows a group of figures with black masks, leading the procession with
torches in their hands. The mysterious men are members of the Bavarian
secret society “Gugelmänner,” and faithful monarchists. Besides separatist
aspirations for an independent Bavaria, up until today their goal is
solve what they believe to have been the murder of their king.
The legacy of Ludwig II. is extremely contentious. It stands for a passion
for the arts, insane architectural enterprises and homoerotic friendships.
The death of the so-called fairy tale king in Lake Starnberg under
circumstances that remain unclear today, as well as his legacy, are the
stuff of legends. Several pho- tographic and sculptural works engage with
the myth of the fairytale king and the secret society of the Guglmänner.

Ceremony 1; performance

Copper Thieves: photo series published in De:Bug magazine, 2013,

exhibition at Salon Mutlu curated by Zoë Claire Miller, Berlin, 2014

Unken; sculpture, branches, horsehair, cake server

Flying Carpet; laser cut carpets

Copper Thieves

exhibition at Salon Mutlu curated by Zoë Claire Miller, Berlin, 2014

Ceremony 3; performance at the Fuji mountain

The non-ferrous metal thieve network map (1)

Copper Thieves fashion photospread for De:bug Magazin #148.

Magazin for electronic live aspects.

Styling and special tools for the copper theft by Johannes Büttner,

Alexander Seeberg-Elverfeldt and Timo Feldhaus and contributing artists

ZOZ [Dahdahdididahdahdahdahdahdidit] Relicts cataloged at the Dia Slides Archives

Ceremony 5; performance with AEIOU and Alexander Seeberg-Elverfeldt

Diced Pineapple, with Laura Küchler, Pineapple, Juice, Korn, Prosecco

Die Öffentliche; font by Strobo

Loot; temporary installation during the performance, in front of the gallery Mutlu

Time To Kill – with Jörg Brinkmann at the Berlin Art Prize 2015, District Berlin

Time To Kill is another guide about how to spend quality time online. Join us in getting

lost in data holes and consulting experts. Büttner and Brinkmann present a DIY interface

for cloud surfing.

Goggle; with Joscha Schell: bottle of korn, cop- per wire, lens, wooden shelf

3 Kilo Copper; copper ingots with a stock ex- change value of 19,42 Dollar, cable ties

Set; with Henrike Naumann, fanny pack, different items to distract watchdogs

Divining Rod (Proof 1); with Nina Hollensteiner: screen, videofile

Hate Magazin / Kongress der Möglichkeiten
together with Laura Ewert, Nina Scholz and Jonas Gempp

The non-ferrous metal thieve network map;

glass frames, scotch, copper wire, overhead transparency foil printed with

found footage of copper thieves, confiscated copper, buissnes structures,

crime scenes, techniques to avoid the stealing of copper, surveillance systems

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The non-ferrous metal thieve network map;

glass frames, scotch, copper wire, overhead transparency foil printed with

found footage of copper thieves, confiscated copper, buissnes structures,

crime scenes, techniques to avoid the stealing of copper, surveillance systems

Accumulator 1; 100 liter humus soil, copper cable, car radio, gabba-loop,

copper crystals, homoeopathic pills, ore and copper oxide, energy drinks,

wood billet, chassie
The non-ferrous metal network map: glass frames, scotch, copper wire,

overhead transparency foil printed with found footage of copper thieves,

confiscated copper, buissnes structures, crime scenes, techniques to avoid the stealing

of copper, surveillance systems
Battery (first try); energydrinks, concrete, copper sulfate, distilled water,

copper cable, felt, volatge measurement device

(Detail) Accumulator 1; 100 liter humus soil, copper cable, car radio, gabba-loop,

copper crystals, homoeopathic pills, ore and copper oxide, energy drinks,

wood billet, chassie

Installation view:

Flying Carpet; laser cut carpets Pyramid: bitumen, acupuncture needle,

homoeopathic pill

Accumulator 1; 100 litre humus soil, copper cable, car radio, gabba-loop,

copper crystals, homoeopathic pills, ore and copper oxide, energy drinks,

wood billet, chassie, heating pipe

Orgon and Tachyonen Photographie; the photo material (photo reel and

photo paper was: a) put in a orgone accumulator for 24 hours (rebulid fol- lowing

a construction guide by Wilhelm Reich) b) sprayed with Tachyonen

(bought from amazon.com)

Battery (first try); energy drinks, concrete, copper sulfate, distilled water,

copper cable, felt, voltage measurement device

Crystal battery; alaun battery, wires, LEDs, steel

Accumulator 1; 100 litre humus soil, copper cable, car radio, gabba-loop,

copper crystals, homoeopathic pill, ore and copper oxide, energy drinks,

wood billet, chassie, heating pipe

Autarkic Photographs; photo prints produced using the autak photography

method, wooden boxes, bitumen

Anarchist Cookbook Version 2000

Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell (1969)

Peak Panik, lecture performance with Helge Peters

Kongress der Möglichkeiten

Peak Panik documents an ongoing series of performative work- shops in Berlin and beyond.

Placed in a relation of tactical dis/en- gagement with the institutional dispositifs of fine art

and academic theory production, the gatherings tapped into a ubiquitous sense of crisis

pervading our contemporary moment in what increasingly desperate-sounding voices still

call Western civilisation.
Encore un effort. Not to achieve progress, but to be done with it already. To more fully

inhabit this civilisation’s collapse by retreating from its technologies.

To elaborate techniques instead, inclu- ding war, not as a reactionary lashing out against

the other, but as tactics for dissolving the apparatuses of capture still fixing our

subjectivities to government in the moment of its failure. To develop pragmatic ways of

reconstructing collective forms-of-life from the scrap heaps of the age of Man whilst

remaining fully aware of the stabilising function of governmental discourses of emergency

preparedness, disaster resilience, and individualising prepper cultures.
Peak Panik appropriates fragments salvaged from the collective écriture of our moment

– manuals, manifestos, inventories, rumours – to draw partial maps, not only cognitive

but material, for navigating crumbling anthropogenic landscapes precariously held in

place by a metastasising techno-economy of identification, secu- rity and control.

Along this journey we might just lose the self and find each other.

Interview with a Copper Thief, with Zoë Claire Miller,

Performance at Salon Mutlu, Berlin

Hidden behind a shadow sreen, a professional copper thief answers questions

from the audience. Techniques, distribution channels and perspectives on copper

theft are discussed.

Orgon and Tachyonen Photographie: the photo material (photo reel and

photo paper) was a: put in a orgone accumulator for 24 hours (following a construction

guide by Wilhelm Reich) b: sprayed with Tachyonen (bought from amazon.com)

Flying Carpet: laser cut carpets

Battery (first try): energy drinks, concrete, copper sulfate, distilled water,

copper cable, felt, voltage measurement device

Essentially everything is solar.

Sunlight hits the earth animating the elements: water evaporates, vapor rising up, raining back tot he ground, flowing into the oceans; warm air displaces cold air, wind blows;

photosynthesis processes solar energy into biomass which is eaten by animals which are hunted by humans, slaughtered or yoked to a plough; plant or animal biomass, wind mill,

water mill, sail, and yoke; that’s how it’s been for thousands of years.

But then carbon arrived on the scene. Carbon, a product of inhuman forces and timescales. Relentless geological force over millions of years compressing biomass to a high-density

battery of solar energy. Until man could persuade carbon to form an alliance which elevated him to planetary power. First coal, then oil.

Coal begat urbanisation, industrialisation, railways, and solidarity. No Hegelian world spirit formed the proletariat, it was coal itself, stubbornly clinging to the coalbed, giving an

example of overground resistance which empowered the proletarian who alone knew how to persuade coal to be mined. Shoulder to shoulder the proletarians went down the pit,

shoulder to shoulder they shovelled the coal onto the barges, onto the trains, shoulder to shoulder they striked again and again from the nineteenth until late deep into the

twentieth century. Their strikes blocked the energetic metabolism of industrial society, strikes oft he coal workers, strikes oft he railway workers, industrial workers, general

strike, until everyone had health insurance and pensions and annual holidays and a television set.

Thirty years ago the coal worker striked a last time, because he did not know any better. He lost, both his job and his alliance with coal. His children are now baristas, web designers,

and call center agents, they work and party in the abandoned industrial plants in which the machinic rhythm structuring their parent’s lives can still be heard as a faint echo; they’re

high both on expensive drugs and cheap oil.

Oil is a class traitor. It doesn’t empower the worker, but the manager and the general. Once spudded, the oil eagerly bubbles to the surface, flowing through the metastases of a global

network of pipelines and tankers guarded by drones and guns. The oil worker no longer goes down a pit where he could conspire shielded from the eyes of the manager. The oil

worker stays on the surface, constantly surveilled. Oil is flexible, nimble, it does not need railways, it can circumvent strikes, it organises a geography in which it flows around

resistances, and if its flow is interrupted after all an aircraft carrier won’t be far.

But this, too, is passing.
Some planners in the German military bureaucracy are already freaking out:

„
Peak oil is inevitable. There is a serious risk that sustained scarcity of essential commodities will initiate a time of global transformations accompanied by frictions to be

taken extremely seriously from a security policy perspective. The desintegration of whole complex economic systems including their interdependent infrastructures has direct,

severe consequences on many areas of life, specifically in developed countries
“

The federal office for civil protection reminds us:

„Do you know how dependent you are on electricity, gas, oil and district heating? What do you do when all of this fails? The telephone is dead, the heater won’t work, there is no hot

water, computer and coffee machine stay off, there is no light. You’ll really quickly how depnendent you are on electrical energy. You can replace heating with warm clothes for a

short while. If you have a fireplace in your house, keep a supply of coal of firewood.
And always keep some candles in your house.“

The playful violence of insurgence has no room for regret. Regret weakens the force of blows and makes us cautious and timid. But regret only comes in when violence is dealt

with as a moral question, and for insurgents who are fighting for the freedom to live their desires; morality is just another form of social control.

I lived about ten miles above our southern border and had frequent „guests“ on the ranch. I was never worried much until one day. I was carrying a holstered 6in 357mag Security

Six, mostly for wild dogs and feral hogs. I walked around a long brush pile (about 300 yds long and 10-12ft high and was looking at one of them about 75ft away. He had an AK.

That left a very cold feeling in my gut. I doubt I could have stopped him before he shot me. I never walked the place again with less than one of my rifles. Overwhelming scary fire

power. That is the ticket. Second time it happened to me I was sitting on my front porch. Rifle beside me. About 12 of them walked around the corner of the house. Things remains

very calm with MY AK on my lap. Get a rifle or shotgun. If something spooks the dog, go big or stay inside. But even inside, get the rifle or shotgun out and at the ready.

Wherever rebel violence has manifested playfully, regret seems absurd. There is an intense joy, even euphoria, in the release of violent passions that have been pent up for so long.

Bashing in the skull of society as we experience it on a daily basis is an intense pleasure, and one to be savored, not repudiated in shame, guilt or regret. Some may object that such

an attitude could cause our violence to get out of hand, but an excess of insurgent violence is not something that we need to fear.

They will be back. No doubt about it. We live right outside of Baltimore and are starting to see issues here in our area. The growing consensus of the neighbors is that we will be

keeping armed watch of our neighborhood. All of the people on our street answer bumps in the night with either, shotguns, ARs or AKs. The police just told us that if we catch them,

that we can „defend ourselves“.

Unrepressed, expansive individuals squander in all things. Riots and insurrections have failed to get beyond temporary release, not because of excess, but because people hold

themselves back. People have not trusted their passions. They have feared the expansiveness, the squandering excess of their own dreams and desires. But how can

insurgent violence ever be truly excessive when there is no institution of social control, no aspect of authority, no icon of culture that should not be smashed to powder — and that

gleefully?

Now, my wife knows to never answer the door if someone knocks. I don‘t even do it without my .45 in my hand. We are both versed in firearms. There are mace canisters,

baseball bats, knives, guns, what have you spread throughout the house. One thing is certain, we are armed to the teeth in numbers of ways. We have a 20 pound dog that goes

bonkers if he hears something strange. We will be getting a bigger dog with bigger teeth soon.

Who would want to democratize most of this? Can you imagine the drudgery of the Slurpee committee meeting at the collectivized 7-11? Surely better just to put it to the torch and be

done with all illusions.

It it is better to have the mindset of total war than to be wishy washy. Maximum force, maximum violence, maximum brutality. If you are not commited to this, you will lose.

Fullness of the passions includes full and expansive expressions of hatred and rage.

Be mindful walking outside because they can see you but you can’t see them…

Prepper Workshop, interview with the founder and president of the

Prepper Gemeinschaft Deutschland

Prepper Workshop; Skype interview with the founder and president of the Prepper Gemeinschaft Deutschland

The Safe; during the performance a stolen safe was brought to the gallery. The next day policemen confiscated the object.

Einige Tage nach der Silvesternacht Zweitausenddreizehn zu Zweitausendvierzehn

hat die chinesische Polizei mit Schnellbooten und Hubschraubern einen Schlag gegen

einen Produzentenring der Droge Methamphetamin vollzogen. Mehr als ein Fünftel aller

Haushalte der Kleinstadt Boshe (vierzehntausend Bewohner) in der südlichen Provinz

Guangdong sollen nach Behördenangaben an Drogenproduktion oder -handel beteiligt

sein. Jahrelang hatten sich die Bewohner dem Zugriff der Behörden widersetzt. Zugänge

zur Stadt wurden dazu mit Motorrädern und Nagelbrettern blockiert, Polizisten mit selbst

gebauten Granaten angegriffen. Bei dieser Razzia wurden drei Tonnen Methamphetamin

sowie zwanzig Tonnen Rohmaterial zur Rauschgiftherstellung beschlagnahmt.

Wirkspektrum: Methamphetamin stimuliert das zentrale und das dezentrale

Nervensystem. Es bewirkt eine erhöhte Ausschüttung der Botenstoffe Noradrenalin und

Dopamin im Gehirn sowie von Adrenalin in den Nerven außerhalb des Gehirns und des

Rückenmarks. Diese Botenstoffe sind dann in sehr hohem Maße vorhanden und können

lange und extrem stark wirken.

Es kommt zu einer Steigerung des Stoffwechsels und der Atmung. Der Puls wird schneller,

Blutdruck und Körpertemperatur steigen an, die Pupillen sind erweitert, Hunger, Durst

und Müdigkeit werden unterdrückt und das Schmerzempfinden wird vermindert.

Es kommt zu erhöhter Aufmerksamkeit und Leistungsfähigkeit sowie zu gesteigertem

Bewegungs- und Rededrang. User berichten von Spaß an eintönigen Tätigkeiten.

Wirkdauer: je nach Dosis vier bis zwölf Stunden, bei sehr hoher Dosierung bis zu dreißig

Stunden.

Dosierung: Eine niedrige Dosis liegt bei fünf bis zehn Milligramm, eine mittlere bei zehn

bis vierzig Milligramm, gewöhnte User dosieren oft deutlich höher. Um abzuschätzen,

wieviel Milligramm eine Portion enthält, kann man ein Gramm jeweils vier Mal halbieren,

so dass man sechzehn gleich große Teile erhält. Jeweils ein Teil entspricht ungefähr

sechzig Milligramm. Bei einer Reinheit von achtzig Prozent sind das etwa vierzig bis

fünfzig Milligramm Wirkstoff pro Portion.¹

Wenn man diesen Angaben folgt, würde es bedeuten, dass ein Gramm (zwanzig Portionen

a fünfzig Milligramm) Methamphetamin bei regelmäßigem Gebrauch eine bestimmte Art

der Energie, nennen wie sie M-Energie, für ca. zweihundert Stunden liefert (fünfzig
Milligramm hat eine Wirkungsdauer von zehn Stunden).

Das bedeutet, ein Kilo Methamphetamin liefert M-Energie für zweihunderttausend

Stunden (Tausend mal Zweihundert). Eine Tonne für zweihundertmillionen Stunden.

Die von der Polizei beschlagnahmten drei Tonnen beinhalten somit sechshundertmillionen

Stunden M-Energie. Das sind fünfundzwanzigmillionen Tage oder

dreimillionenfünfhunderteinundsiebzigtausendvierhunderachtundzwanzig Wochen oder

achtundsechzigtausendvierhundertdreiundneunzig Komma fünfzehn Jahre. Bei der

aktuellen Weltbevölkerung von sieben Komma zwei Milliarden Menschen wären es fünf

  Minuten M-Energie pro Kopf.

Von eins Komma drei sechs Milliarden Menschen die in China leben sind

neunhundertneuzehnmillionen Personen erwerbstätig. Im Jahr Zweitausenddreizehn

erwirtschafteten sie nach Schätzungen des IWF

achtmilliardenneunhundertneununddreißigtausenddreihundertsiebenundzwanzigmillionen

Dollar Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Das entspricht 

einemilliardezwanzigmillionenvierhunderteinundsiebzigtausendeinhundertachtzehn

Dollar in der Stunde

(achtmilliardenneunhundertneununddreißigtausenddreihundertsiebenundzwanzigmillionen

Dollar geteilt durch achttausendsiebenhundertsechzig Stunden (ein Jahr)) und

siebzehnmillionensiebentausendachthunderteinundfünfzig Komma neun,  sieben, acht,

sieben Dollar in der Minute. Wenn man die M-Energie des beschlagnahmten

Methamphetamin auf die arbeitende Bevölkerung Chinas aufteilen würde, würden Pro

Kopf null komma sechs, fünf, zwei, acht, acht, drei, fünf, sechs, neun, null, neun Stunden

also ca. dreiundvierzig Minuten (je nach Toleranz) M-Energie entstehen.Wenn man diese

dreiundvierzig Minuten in Mehrarbeit umwandeln würde (M-Energie= W) würde man

siebenhunderteinunddreissigmillionendreihundertsiebenunddreißigtausendsechshundertfünfunddreißig

US-Dollar Bruttoinlandsprodukt erwirtschaften. Der Verkaufswert des beschlagnahmten

Methamphetamin beträgt nach einem Bericht der „South China Morning Post“

einhundertsiebzigmillionen Dollar. Eine Tonne kostet also

sechundfünfzigmillionensechshundertsechsundsechzigtausendsechshundertsechsundsechzig

Dollar. Das durch drei Tonnen Methamphetamin erwirtschaftete Bruttoinlandsprodukt

entspricht demnach zwölf Komma neun Tonnen Methamphetamin.

¹ Quelle: http://drugscouts.de/de/lexikon/crystalmethamphetamin

Battery (first try); energy drinks, concrete, copper sulfate, distilled water,

copper cable, felt, voltage measurement device

The Self is a prison wich lets you choose a new cell every morning:
Agender, Androgyne, Androgynous, Bigender, Cis, Cis Female, Cis Male, Cis Man, Cis Woman, Cisgender, Cisgender Female, Cisgender Male, Cisgender Man, Cisgender

Woman, Female to Male, FTM, Gender Fluid, Gender Nonconforming, Gender Questioning,  Gender Variant, Genderqueer, Intersex, Male to

Female, MTF, Neither, Neutrois, Non-binary, Other, Pangender, Trans, Trans Female, Trans Male, Trans Man, Trans Person, Trans Woman, Trans*, Trans*

Female, Trans* Male, Trans* Man, Trans* Person, Trans* Woman, Transfeminine, Transgender, Transgender Female, Transgender Male, Transgender Man, Transgender

Person, Transgender Woman, Transmasculine, Transsexual, Transsexual Female, Transsexual Male, Transsexual Man, Transsexual Person, Transsexual Woman, Two-spirit

„We want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self“ (Facebook, Inc.)

We have to understand the 56 gender options now offered by Facebook as an upgrade of a security dispositif in which digital and biomedical techniques co-produce governable

individuals. Having long since become systemic, digital technologies promise liberation all the more hysterically whilst weaving the web of control ever more tightly.

The division between sex and gender, nature and culture, becomes meaningless in the cybernetic enactment of the body as a communication system. Interacting tissues of the

endocrinal system emit molecular signals, their media are hormones, travelling along a complex network of blood vessels in order to transmit information to distant cells.

We need new alliances.

Eat, drink, breathe, absorb with your skin: nutritional additives, care products, plastics, textiles. The industrial milieu entangles our bodies with informational environments full

of endocrine disruptors, chemically similar to the hormones of higher vertebrates, molecular spoofs deceiving hormone receptors, reprogramming neuronal behaviour and

sexual functions by simulating androgene and estrogene.

The environment becomes decidedly queer, but the database cannot deal with ambiguity.

66 materials currently identified by the biopolitical apparatus, 66 environmental toxins spewn out by the industrial machine, materials to be surveilled and controlled in the effort

to contain attention deficit and obesity, to defend sperm quality and cis-normativity, to produce healthy, docile fertile bodies and their unambigous, classifiable, commodifiable

identities.

Don’t leave your plastic baby bottle in the hot car, the anti-vaxxers whisper, or your kids will become strange.

Left overs; including DIY weapons, DIY candles, DIY drugs, DIY battery,

DIY time detonator and others

Autarkic Photographs, method description

For this project, I researched the pseudoscientific ‚free energy` movement and

contacted people through the internet, who have claimed the invention of a machine

that self-sufficiently produces energy.

1. I photographed these machines with an analog camera. The machines expose

themselves as they are lit by the bulbs. The electricity for the bulbs is being supplied by

the electricity emitted from the machines.

2. After the analog developing of the negatives, I manually exposed a print onto photo

paper. The light source used for this proce- dure was also supplied by the electricity

emitted from this very machine.

3. The result are prints which are recording the energy invested in their own making.

Prepper Workshop, Führungskreislauf, Skype interview with the founder and

president of the Prepper Gemeinschaft Deutschland, projection on the ceiling

Exhibition view, Global Viral, Kunsthaus Kat18, 2014

Autarkic Photograph of

Alaun Crystal Battery

Bedini Generator, developed by John Bedini

Stone Battery, devolped by John Hutchinson

Exhibition view Berlin Art Prize 2015

Autarkic Photograph of a Bedini Generator