monochrom project update // monochrom's Blattoptera - Art for Cockroaches: We run a gallery-space for cockroaches. Every month, a different artist or arts group is invited to design an environment in which our tribe of giant South American cockroaches are placed, to act as audience for, and aesthetic judges of the work. We have a webcam to watch on the little critters.
Yesterday, Letizia Werth presented her exhibition. It is made out of dust. Letizia: "Dust is the materialisation of time, it is volatile and yet manifest. Dust is disgusting and everywhere. Dust is non-material – we don’t use it, we dispose of it. Dust is like cockroaches."
We would like to remind you that the nature of the audience is such that they prefer to be in the dark. Therefore it is rather likely that the audience will refrain from showing themseves to the cameras during daytime and prefer to rest behind the pieces of art. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
