monochrom project publication // Steal the world/Fake it a better place... (The Faking-Of Georg Paul Thomann): Article by our very own Frank Apunkt Schneider about our Thomann project. Quote: >The intention of GPT is not to parody the more recent history of art and expose its gaping incongruities (it takes care of that well enough itself, e.g., as documenta), but rather to paint its portrait, as is the tradition in classical portrait painting, in such a way as to make it look a little better than it has in reality. Where in this case the aesthetic retouching has become a theoretical retouching, in order to provide it (the more recent history of art) with a sense and a function that shine just a little more than the sense and the function it in fact possesses. GPT as a sort of fountain pen filled with magic ink. Some magic ink that makes the occluded and obliterated contours of a "leftist" history of art visible by writing GPT's biography. Or something of the kind.< 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]
