monochrom Update // UDO 77, our Udo Proksch Musical: Sorry for posting only a few entries during the last days. Our musical "UDO 77" had its premiere on Wednesday. You're not from Austria? You don't know anything about Udo Proksch? Here's some info: In 1977 the ship 'Lucona' sank in the Pacific Ocean after an explosion killing 6 people. Udo Proksch, the owner of the cargo, also the owner of a famous Viennese confectioners', claimed 20 million US dollars from his insurance saying it was loaded with expensive uranium tilling machines. Investigations started and fraud was suspected. The investigations were obstructed by politicians with important functions who were private friends of Proksch. Finally several (ex-)ministers got sentenced. The ex-minister of Foreign Affairs was sentenced for making false documents (in cooperation with the Rumanian embassy) proving the authenticity of the cargo. Two other ministers were dismissed for obstructing the investigations. The minister of Defense, shareholder in the Proksch firm, had given permission to deliver explosives to sabotage the ship and committed suicide when that came clear.
Quite a nice topic for a musical, we thought.
If you're German speaking and you're in Vienna, please visit the show at the Rabenhof Theater. 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]
