Reisetagebuch I (2019-2021)
The project includes a bicycle journey and an essay based on the journey.
Bicycle journey:
Start and destination: Cordoba, Argentina - La Paz, Bolivia
Distance: 3922.57 Km
Time period 29.04.2019 -16.09.2019
Reisetagebuch I Auszug (2021)
Essay, 7064 words
Reisetagebuch I is a project involving a five-month bicycle journey through the remote high deserts of the Andes. The journey began with a desire to better understand my place in the complex network of the universe. After completing the journey, I wrote an essay of about 7,000 words. The essay is based on the events and impressions of the trip and the thought processes they inspired in me.
Later, this was extended by subsequent intensive research in various fields such as religious concepts, physics, network theory, computer science, architecture, neurophysiology, anthropology, and psychology. This led to a juxtaposition of artificial, urban landscapes and natural landscapes, as well as traditional beliefs and supposedly superior Western beliefs and empirical achievements.
The project is very important for the development of my further artistic practice and forms the basis for works such as Jörd, Del Polvo Vienes, and An Anatomy of Form and Function and the Melody the Dragon Hums. I am planning more similar research projects in the future.