Born somewhere on the planet; in the year in which Malaysia and Singapore change their clocks to the same time zone; the first computer virus is discovered; Senegal and Gambia found the Senegambia Confederation; the Sabra and Shatila massacre is committed in the city of Beirut; the Hama massacre in Syria begins; the Lebanon War takes place; there are renewed protests and clashes between demonstrators and the police in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and the predominantly Albanian population of Kosovo demands that their autonomous part of the country be detached from its formal affiliation with Serbia and become an independent republic; the Federal-Länder Commission for Educational Planning in Germany ceases its work due to a lack of funding; the follow-up meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) resumes in Madrid; Helsinki-Metro opens to the public as Finland's first rapid transit system; Argentinian forces occupy the British Crown Colony of the Falkland Islands, for which Argentina claims sovereignty, prompting the British government to break off diplomatic relations with Argentina and, on 5 April, decide to deploy naval units to the Falkland Islands. the singer Nicole, actually Nicole Hohloch, from Neunkirchen, wins the "Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson" with the song "Ein bißchen Frieden"; Israel returns the Sinai Peninsula completely to Egypt, thus achieving a certain easing of the Middle East conflict; the second environmental conference of the UN environmental organisation UNEP takes place in Nairobi, attended by representatives from over 130 countries, with an appeal to do more for environmental protection; the Turkish woman Semra Ertan Bilir burns herself to death in Hamburg in protest against xenophobia in the Federal Republic of Germany; health warnings on cigarette packets become mandatory in Hong Kong; the exhibition "Video Art in Germany 1963-1982" at the Kölnischer Kunstverein shows the works of renowned video artists, including Nam June Paik (it is said that this exhibition gives video art museum status for the first time); a NATO summit meeting is held in Bonn and around 400. 000 to 500,000 people demonstrate for peace in the city; the Federal Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany decides to only grant education grants for students as loans in future; the US film "E. T - The Extra-Terrestrial" is released in cinemas across Germany; a powerful earthquake shakes south-west Yemen; Time magazine names a computer "Man of the Year" for the first time; the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Mexican politician Alfonso Garcia Robles (1911-1991), who initiated the treaty on a nuclear-free zone in Latin America in 1967, and to the Swedish nuclear war expert Alva Myrdal (1902-1986), who campaigned for social justice and disarmament; it is also the year in which the longest lunar eclipse of the 20th century takes place, with the total duration of the eclipse being one hour. century, with a total duration of 236 minutes.
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I agree with others that we need a planetary art that is cosmo-public and is based on the transconnection,
intraconnections, and extraintraconnections of all matter, deep enough that it fosters friendly solidarity for a planetary aesthetics that points out this urgently needed shift for an inhabitable planet for all matter. This is a matter of cosmo-poethics.
In a present shaped by the militarisation of perception, the threat and disappearance of vulnerable forms of life, and the exhaustion of institutional language, I understand art as a cosmo-poethical practice: a form of intervention that does not seek to reassure, but to unsettle; that keeps questions open rather than providing answers.
My works are provisional constellations of resonance, friction, and proximity. Within such moments, relations may emerge that are neither stable nor fully accessible, yet suggest that another way of being in the world is possible.