Where ecology meets a disappearing and precious culture.
In Mediterranean countries, a combination of automobile mania and contempt for our peasant, agricultural past means that the ancient mule and donkey culture is in crisis. In Greece the number of donkeys (including the unique breed of Arcadian donkey known to Homer and Xenophon) fell by 96.4%, from 508,000 to 18,173, between 1955 and 2006 and is still falling. The special breeds of Asinara, Sardinia and Sicily are endangered species. Donkeys in Corfu are on the verge of extinction. The lovely Martina Franca donkey of southern Italy has just been rescued from oblivion, but at a price: it is likely to be farmed for meat.
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]
