People everywhere are talking about "a crisis of comprehensive major exhibitions", e.g. the Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennial, etc. ... Well, I see it all quite differently. I love these Monster Truck Shows of the artworld: They've always captured the interest of the international public - regardless of whether you go there or not. And then the artists are allowed to stamp on one another and the whole world can watch and cheer them on. They run around the arena, the sweating educated middle-classes with their catalogues, greedy to catch a glimpse of the creaking metal and smashing glass, smelling the glorious fumes of petroleum. Do you appreciate the irony? You see, and it's not even intentional.
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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]
