Johannes, an insane Austrian man we met this
weekend, will be conducting a rant at
<http://www.hackerspace.sg>Hackerspace.SG this Thursday evening.
For those who are unfamiliar with the rant: it is
a tradition of performance art which was
developed in Europe in the 19th century and
successfully ported to the Internet in the
early-to-mid 1990s. It is now being introduced to
Asia by aesthetic pioneers like Johannes Grenzfurthner.
In recognition of Singapore's leading position as
the financial and cultural capital of Asia, and
of Hackerspace.SG as the leading hackerspace in
Singapore, he has chosen Hackerspace.SG as the
venue for his first Singapore performance of this artwork.
We invite all members of hackerspace.sg and the
related community to attend this rant.
There is no fee, though we wish to thank in
advance all the wonderful people who consume
beer, wine, or soft drinks, for their cash
donations into the little glass that says "your donations are welcome."
For the purposes of licensing under Chapter 257
Section 319, this is an exempt entertainment as
defined by the Public Entertainments and Meetings
(Specified Arts Entertainment) (Exemption) Order 2005.
And here the desc:
monochrom and the East: Some stories about Context Hacking and Asia
A tour-de-farce by Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom
monochrom is a worldwide operating collective
dealing with technology, art 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,
political activism and technological disaster.
Johannes wants to tell us stories about
monochrom's "context hacking" projects that
specifically deal with our focus on contemporary Asian topics.
The term context hackinglike its mimetic
siblinng "communication guerrilla"refers to
unconventional forms of commuunication and/or
intervention in more conventional processes of
communication. Context hacking is a specific
style of political action that observes and makes
visible the paradoxes and absurdities of power.
Context hacking uses absurdities as the starting
point for interventions by playing with
representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification.
hackerspace.sg, 70A Bussorah Street, Singapore. 8 PM.
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Posted By johannes to
<http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/12/monochrom-hackerspacesg-some-stories.htm>monochrom
at 12/15/2009 01:03:00 PM
