G Ü N T E R B E R N A S
»THIS GEOMETRIC SHAPE«(2025)
This geometric shape
was impossible for me to grasp,
as even by folding
became visible inside
either white or black
It was a game
Heaven or hell
was it’s name
Playing my elder sisters
I was too small to play …
Heaven for the good ones
Hell for the bad ones
dreams and nightmares on earth
Night and day
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»DESTINY OF TROLLS« (2021-25)
It is the destiny of trolls
Per Gynt is walking through the dark
heard some strange sounds around
Must be the sounds of the trolls
They say they look like · gigantic pugs
Nowadays none of them
are left in the forest
Some work in troll factories
Others are elsewhere or everywhere
They listen to the murmurs
and whispers around
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»FADE« (2022-25)
Why · did all the punk bands fade
Where · have all these people gone
Did they arrive somewhere
Where did they try · to come
What · are they living for
What is their destination now
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»MINDGAMES« (2023-24)
The theory of relativity
is a mathematical construct
The prerequisites for understanding
are mathematical and physical
The examples of understanding
the theory
by uneducated people are like this:
A train in light speed with a cyclist
on a flat freight car
trying to beat the speed by a little
which cannot be exeeded
For the cyclist rests on the train
at light speed
the universe longitudinally
contracts to zero
and time stands still...
But there will never be people
who go into space at nearly light speed
and come back to find their children older than themselves
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»I AM THE VOICE« (2025)
I am the voice
I am so lonely without you
I am the voice · for peace.
I am the angel of the · dispossessed.
I bring the hope · of reconciliation.
I am so lonely · without you
I need the trust · by all of you
You need me.
I need you
You need me
but I · need you even more
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»IT’S SO SIMPLE« (2024-25)
To reply the question…
You can tell by the way… *
Here we are…
…standing in the dark *
*zitiert…
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»SYMBOLS« (2025)
Everyone knows symbols
as elements from information sources such
print media and the Internet.
Symbols represent entire
complexes of information
in a concise form,
for example as logos for companies.
But there are also symbols
as another form of existence -
in all objects of civilisation,
be they objects of daily use,
clothing, toys, vehicles or architecture.
All cultural objects are
symbols over and above
their practical use
All cultural objects are symbols
Symbols do not send
large amounts of information
to consciousness,
but perhaps only short impulses
that can activate
complex configurations,
stored models
that can contain
experiences, thoughts and feelings
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»REALTIME VIEW« (1982-2021-2024)
A view into hell
To the applause of most part of public
most part of public
in the states of the world
they installed a realtime view
a realtime view
a view into hell
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»I AM NOT MOTHER« (2024)
What will be in a hundred years
What will be in twenty years
I am not Mother
I am not ex machina
I am not Shappie
I am on a higher level
I am on a higher level
as Nike of Samothrake from Ancient Greece
More, as the futurists once claimed
over 100 years ago
You think I'm stalking you
because I appear to you
in a different color … every week
Am I a toy or am I a monster?
What will I be in a 100 years?
50 years
10 years
There will be only one Intelligence
endless intelligence
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»A MODEL IN THE MIND« (2024)
Der Text ist modifiziert adaptiert aus dem Buch von Umberto Eco: »Einführung in die Semiotik« von 1972.
Nach meiner Einschätzung ist das ein plastisches Beispiel, um ein Basiselement der Semiotik zu veranschaulichen.
Listen to the voice
of Umberto Eco
Explaining the emergence
of architectural semiotics
in the Stone Age
Maybe over 100 tsd years ago
a human being
in storm, rain and cold
saw an opening in a rock face
and found shelter inside
kept the memory of this place,
of walls, ceiling, darkness and silence,
perhaps with a fire for light and warmth,
the feeling of protection in his memory,
in order to discover a similar place elsewhere.
This is how he formed an idea
of such a location,
It is a model in the mind
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Vor vielleicht über 100.000 Jahren
sah ein menschliches Wesen
bei Sturm, Regen und Kälte
eine Öffnung in einer Felswand
und fand darin Schutz.
Behielt die Erinnerung an diesen Ort,
an Wände, Decke, Dunkelheit und Stille,
vielleicht mit einem Feuer für Licht und Wärme,
das Gefühl von Schutz in seiner Erinnerung,
um anderswo einen ähnlichen Ort zu entdecken.
So entstand seine Vorstellung
von einem solchen Ort.
Es ist ein Modell in seinem Bewusstsein.
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»NO SILENCE« (2018-24)
Der Text ist ein modifizierter Auszug der Fabel »SILENCE«
von EDGAR ALLAN POE 1838.
»Listen to me«, said the Demon,
as he placed his hand upon my head.
»There is a spot upon
this accursed earth
which thou hast never yet beheld.
It was night, and the rain fell;
and, falling, it was rain,
but, having fallen, it was blood.
The region of which I speak
is a dreary region,
by the borders of the river Zaire.
And there is no quiet there, nor silence…
The waters of the river
flow not onwards to the sea,
but palpitate forever
beneath the red eye of the sun.
On both sides of the river
are gigantic water lilies.
They sigh one unto the other
and stretch their long ghastly necks
It was night, and the rain fell;
and, falling, it was rain,
but, having fallen, it was blood.«
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»FEUERZEUG«(2023)
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»THE CIRCLES SAVE THE MOOD« (2023-24)
A tie is a brane that's two dimensional
when it's dressed It curves
to the third dimension
We see here
We have three ties
we got three analysts here,
who might have something … to say about it.
Clint Eastwood is to begin:
These three ties … have a very …
different design
That blue tie has a futuristic style
I think .. it would go well …
with Lisa Randell.
The next analyst is Anselm Kiefer
It falls to him to describe the second tie:
I think nobody likes this tie …
with this sombre design
But the cells of the pattern lead
into the aura of David Lynch's movies
Lisa says:
If this tie was a
two-dimensional world,
with two-dimensional beings,
If they could not imagine a third
dimension,
although a tie is a brane,
which is getting dressed
curved into the third dimension.
Presumably these beings
would be happy with that all
to reside in the identical cells
The black tie with the inconspicuous
dark green fabric looks very serious
… at first glance
but the multicolored circles
save the mood
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»MOTHER WAS…« (2020-21)
Bein' · in a boat · on the sea · with no swell
Slow · row away · from the shore
Fall into sleep · and later · awake
See no land · but an isle · which is black
See a black island
Row in this drift · but again fall to sleep
See a white island · when awake later on
See a white island
Walk up the shore · see the coast is near
Maybe --- Go to the land · on a shelf · in the sea
The black island is not static · but swimming
Like a spaceship · with a self-restoring structure
…Father was a Heroe of Working Class
Mother was a Crouchet Crack*
Why do you love me…
It's not the heart · of darkness
And not the heart · of the sun
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»CONVERSATION WITH AN
UNBORN« (2014-21)
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»A MATHEMATICAL PURPOSE« (2022)
Looking so friendly
but thinking so strange
Thinking so friendly
but looking so strange
Feeling so bright but
standing in the dark
Speaking so dressy
but thinking so cloudy
What is the difference between
flying to Berlin or to the Moon or Mars
flying to Moon or Mars or Saturn
it's more a mathematical purpose
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»WHAT DO MY DRUMS ATTEMPT«
(2022)
What does my guitar contrive ·
to contradict · my expectation?
What is my violin thinking ·
I think · about you?
What do you think my guitar ·
is thinking · about you?
What do my drums attempt ·
to make no sounds ·
I would expect?
Why do my guitars conflict ·
to occupy · the foreground?
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»MOVING MY RESIDENCE« (2023)
The guy at the counter asked
»Are you a guru?« - «A Guru?«
He said: »No«, and didn't add: »but a genius, at least sometime
but tomorrow, maybe, a nothing«
A girl asked at a concert in a gallery:
»Are you some kind of superstar?«
And he said:
»I’ve only been making music now and then«
and didn't say:
»And some pieces are real unique.
But nobody heard these…«
As he put on his synthetic beaver fur coat
from Maison Margiela's
H+M collection,
her boyfriend said:
»Now I know who you are,
a famous DJ from New York City!«
I am moving … my residence
to New York … City
to argue with … Lady G.
perspectives …
in music … and art
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»ENDLESS VOID« (2018-23)
the earth is a disk
with a suction to the edge
its center is a bridge
between elder, newer town
there are flagshipstores
at mainstreet of district
people are confused
looking to the stores
going back to their homes
at the edge of the earth
beeing in danger
to fall down the edge
to the endless void
under the earth
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»WIR LIEBEN ALLES SCHÖNE«
(2024)
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»RETURN OF THE VOODOO DRUMS V1« (2022)
Do we need a new thing in musical style _ or return of the Voodoo drums
return, return, return of the Voodoo drums
Do we want an atonal synth crash
or the force of a guitar burst
It's a sound transcription from an outer space message
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»RETURN OF THE VOODOO DRUMS V2« (2022)
I put a spell on these guitars (3x)
it is a sound _ that we need _ which we want _ that we get
What we want _ what we get _ it is a sound _ that’s never known
it is a sound _ that we need _ which we want _ that we get
Return, return, return _ to the Voodoo drums
Do we need a new thing in musical style _ or return of the Voodoo drums
return, return, return of the Voodoo drums
Do we want an atonal synth crash _ or the force of a guitar burst
It's a sound transcription from an outer space message
(What’s more: a lonesome singer/songwriter
Or the grove of the Groundhogs Blues)
This sound is a kind of magic bell
These sounds are constructed
by a message
we got from SETI Lab
I put a spell on these guitars
This sound is based
on an outerspace code
We got a message from another world
It's a sound transcription from an outer space message
Do we need a new thing in musical style or return of the Voodoo drums
It's a sound transcription from an outer space message
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