NORBERT SCHLIEWE

"Let us imagine the liberating effect of a visual medium
whose friend is sensory perception itself and
itself and whose technological conditions are open and
understandable, and therefore democratic, lie before us:" I wrote this
I wrote this sentence years ago for an exhibition. It
from a time when I myself no longer believed that I could
no longer believed that I would reach this ideal. That is
quite dramatic, because I have actually spent decades
decades in the attempt to find a medium that would defy the principles
cinematic principles and their normative constraints.
The whole story is too long to be printed here.
be printed here. To keep it short: In 2010, I gave up this utopian
project. I looked back on two decades of great autonomy
and great experiences, but the actual dream remained unfulfilled.
dream remained unfulfilled. During the first corona lockdown
I was unable to continue a drawing entitled "People in the bar"
and somewhat helplessly pulled down the dusty cover of my record engraving machine.
of my record engraving machine. I quickly came across
the problem that I had never been able to solve at the time
and solved it as if by itself. There is actually no
plausible explanation. In a bar in Leipzig, I once spoke
with a musician. He told me about a monk who
said something like this in the 12th century: "If you cannot penetrate a
thing, persevere, then the thing will penetrate you.
the thing will penetrate you."