monochrom presents:
++TAUGSHOW #9++
Friday, December 8, 2006 / 8:00 PM
The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as
NYC Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won't produce
a talk show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig
it. Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful
bucket full of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture,
self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into
the well known cultural technique of a prime time TV show.
[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]
Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Content Manager: Roland Gratzer
Location: dietheater/Konzerthaus, Lothrinerstraße, Vienna.
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/// V. VALE
In 1977, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti each gave V.
Vale, a clerk at City Lights Bookstore, $100 to begin publishing
"SEARCH & DESTROY," now called by Jello Biafra "the
best punk magazine ever, combining in-depth interviews, lists
and reference material with artist's photographs and layout."
After eleven issues in a tabloid format, V. Vale launched Adolescent
Records and then was the first American hired to start Rough Trade
Records U.S.A. He subsequently convinced Rough Trade founder Geoff
Travis to back the first issues of "RE/Search" (a pun
on Search & Destroy). After three "RE/Search" tabloids,
Vale's publishing took a turn towards a book format, beginning
with a ground-breaking, still-classic issue featuring William
S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Throbbing Gristle. Other early
books published by Vale include Mike Bloomfield's, "Me and
Big Joe," Kathy Acker's "Great Expectations," and
Terry Wilson & Brion Gysin's "Here To Go." At the
same time, RE/Search began producing videos, music compilation
CDs, and live events and concerts. The RE/Search series includes
the "Industrial Culture Handbook" (just re-issued in
a beautiful, limited edition hardback), four books involving J.G.
Ballard (two recently: "J.G. Ballard Quotes," and "J.G.
Ballard Conversations"), two books involving PRANKS, "Incredibly
Strange Films" and "Incredibly Strange Music,"
the ground-breaking "Modern Primitives" (credited with
"launching" the tattoo/body modification movement),
and other volumes of noir historian author Daniel P. Mannix, noir
writer Charles Willeford, Wanda von Sacher-Masoch of Graz, Austria,
and others. RE/Search's latest book is "PRANKS 2." RE/Search
is currently producing a series of one-hour interview videos and
has finished 20 episodes for San Francisco television (one of
which features monochrom founder Johannes Grenzfurthner from Vienna,
Austria). RE/Search principals V. Vale and Marian Wallace will
be documenting the RoboExotica Conference, December 2006 for their
video series.
http://www.researchpubs.com/
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/// VIOLET BLUE
Violet Blue is the best-selling, award-winning author and editor
of over twenty books on sex and sexuality, two of which have been
translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Turkish. Violet is
a sex educator who lectures at UC's and community teaching institutions,
and writes about erotica, pornography, sexual pleasure and health.
She is a professional blogger and femmebot; a correspondent at
Geek Entertainment TV; the sex columnist for the San Francisco
Chronicle, and blogs for Gawker's Fleshbot.com and Metroblogging
San Francisco. She was Wired's "sexy geek of 2005",
she has survived being a Dorkbot SF presenter twice, and over
ten years at Survival Research Laboratories -- where she does
robotics, machine maintenance, industrial mechanical fabrication,
welding, machine operation and robot performace production. Her
podcast Open Source Sex has made iTunes cry for its mommy at least
once. To visit her site, remove one item of clothing and click
tinynibbles.com.
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/// OLIVER HANGL
Oliver Hangl was born 1968 in Grieskirchen, Austria. Hangl,
who originally startet his career as actor and stage designer
in 1993, is just as active in performative disciplines and medial
spaces as he is in classical fine arts exhibition sites. His current
works, which are not tied to one medium, are marked by breaks
in reality, doublings, and in between realms. Hangl is involved
in a broad range of activites, in which he frequently switches
between the positions of artist, actor, producer and/or director.
http://www.olliwood.com
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/// Visuals:
/// LA TRINCHERA
La Trinchera (the trench) is an Austrian-Mexican sound and projection
collective based in Mexico City. La Trinchera found its beginnings
in the First "Festival of Improvisation" staged in Mexico
City, february 2004. Since then, La Trinchera has operated as
generator of impulses, as a "free fire zone" and as
a call to experimentation. Risking the clash of individual creative
spirit in the immediacy of a visual situation, La Trinchera has
successfully brought together more than 20 artists of many diverse
world views. Four of them are guests at monochroms taugshow: Rafael
Balboa (handmade 16mm film-loops), Manuel Trujillo (handmade 16mm
film-loops), Aisel Wicab (handmade slides), Doris Steinbichler
(overhead projector).
http://www.trinchera-ensamble.blogspot.com
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/// Regulars:
EVELYN FÜRLINGER, MA.
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/// Showband:
PSSST...
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/// MONOCHROM
Taugshow is a project by monochrom. But what is monochrom?
monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing
with technology, art, context hacking, and philosophy which was
founded in 1993. They specialize in an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic
fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, and political
activism. Their mission is conducted everywhere, but first and
foremost "in culture-archaeological digs into the seats (and
pockets) of ideology and entertainment."
Among their projects, monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming
project, established a one baud semaphore line through the streets
of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles,
buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies
of the art system with the Thomann Project. In Austria they ate
blood sausages made from their own blood in order to criticize
the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy. Sometimes
they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and they
have hosted the first annual festival concerned with cocktail
robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography
as one of the driving forces of technological innovation. They
also do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet
theater, aesthetic pregnancy counseling, food catering, and -
sorry to mention - modern dance.
More infos:
wikipedia
monochrom
