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[Eric Michaud]

Monochrom Coming to Chicago
By Nathan on March 8, 2009 12:45 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

monochrom---Monochrom from Vienna is a worldwide operating collective
dealing with technology, art, context hacking and philosophy and was
founded in 1993. So to sum up, monochrom is 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-archeological digs into the seats (and
pockets) of ideology and entertainment.

monochrom released a leftist retro-gaming project, established a 1
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 host the first annual and inevitably leading festival
concerned with cocktail robotics. At the moment they're creating a
conference series about sex and technology. Also they do international
soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet theatre, aesthetic pregnancy
counselling, food catering and -- sorry to mention --modern dance.

monochrom's Chicago gig will be a medley, a little tour-de-farce, a
presentation of their projects and political motivation. 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 gala show. Powernapping highly
welcome.

At Mercury Cafe. March 18, 7:30 PM.
1505 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

http://www.monochrom.at/english
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monochrom