Ask anyone who visits Vienna and they will tell you that they can't believe the amount people in public stare at one another. I'm from Vienna and lived abroad for 4 years, and when I returned I couldn't believe the rudeness myself - I saw it with outsider's eyes.
Kevin Connolly from Montana, USA was born without legs and uses a skateboard to travel from A to B. On a trip to Europe he happened to be in Vienna when he felt a man staring at him. His reaction was to just take a photo of the man as he stared at him, and this sparked an long project of snapping gawkers from the hip, thereby holding a mirror at those around him.
It's a very cool project called The Rolling Exhibition, and it's featured in this little film on Yahoo-News. I found it through crailtap, a skateboarding website, but the bit on Vienna gives it a special twist for me. The staring in Vienna just pisses me off a great deal. And here's somebody who got pissed off so much, he made an exhibition out of it. This is inspiring stuff. Thanks Kevin.
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]
