Can you tell us a little about your background as an
artist?
I started
drawing cartoons from a very early age. Then beginning of the nineties I got
involved in the upcoming electronic dance music movement, designing hundreds of
record covers and flyers and doing live-paintings etc. I started making
paintings and over time these paintings evolved into large scale sculptures and
installations, which provide a surreal mirror for our society. Creating
dystopian Utopias, such as for instance Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia - a border
control checkpoint to enter your own dreams. For years I used to destroy
my big projects. I feel that when a project, or art, a new youth movement or a
new piece of music comes into the world it has a certain kind of power, or
magic. Eventually that magic fades, and it turns into a business, and starts
earning money. In order to preserve that magic, I blew up projects, set them on
fire, or smashed them to pieces, preserving that energy, and turning it into a
kind of Urban Myth. These installations are turning more and more into
interactive performances, and this year I am working on my first theater play.