Essay

Michael Renkel, street photography

The myth of the individual artist hero, of the brilliant idea springing forth from the personified mastermind, survives obstinately despite the fact that creative production in science, economics and the fine arts has in the meantime developed into something more context-related, something originating in teamwork....

Michael Renkel, street photography

"Furthermore, when we speak the word "life”, it must understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing...

Michael Renkel, street photography

Radical plurality published in the german new music magazine Positionen ( #43 ) Concept: Instead of a search for consensus which ultimately ends in uniformity, discord and radical plurality are the ingredients that determine the group. What matters is not a struggle for unity, but the creation...

Michael Renkel NomosAlto Partiturseite

see video here I perceive the outside world surrounding me as an unforeseen self-motion of the "projection surface: world"; Perceptions as results of thinking, consciousness or interpretation not as their prerequisite. Signs as reduction and attempt of objectification in a generally flowing movement. As a consequence of this thought...

m. renkel_street photography

The Montaigne Project boundary crossings - an approach to an essayistic music (listen to audio here) An observer is separated from the observed objects; individuals are separated from one another: the barrier. The observer affects the observed object with his attributes and conditions: a transition. There is nothing left if the attributes...