Monochrom: 20 years' worth of Viennese art-weirdness

Cory Doctorow 12:23 pm Mon Jun 17, 2013

Johannes from the Austrian art weirdos Monochrom sez, "As we are currently celebrating 20 years of monochrom, we were confronted with the problem of how to (re)present our history. We didn't simply want to show archive material — so we decided to pick 23 projects, anecdotes and stories out our endless bulk of material and recreated them as dioramas and machines.
"23 WORKS" is video series presenting and explaining these installations.

I (personally) really like:"

#20 –
How we almost killed the staff of the US Embassy with a "waterboarding"-drinking machine at Roboexotica 2007.

#19 –
A Japanese shadow theater machine telling the story of sex machine Fuckzilla's appearance at Arse Elektronika

#11 –
The crochet-puppet story of making blood sausage out of our own blood.

#13 –
Installation about our gay pride music hit "Could It Be?" about 2 homosexual subroutines.

#8 –
A Semi-Analog Hurdy Gurdy Karaoke Machine telling the gruesome story of a Brazilian eco-fascist

monochrom: Die waren früher auch mal besser

(Thanks, Johannes!)

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