[spectre] Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 2.

[marc garrett]

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Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 2.

Marc Da Costa interviews the ever dynamic Johannes Grenzfurthner, 
founder of monochrom.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=411

This is second of three interviews with Grenzfurthner. This time round 
we focus on monochrom's art intervention at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial, 
Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2002. In response to being asked as 
representatives of the Republic of Austria, they created the persona of 
Georg P. Thomann, an irascible, controversial (and completely 
fictitious) artist of longstanding fame and renown. Through the 
implementation of this ironic mechanism, the biography of the 
non-existent artist was also included in the catalogue. The interview 
explores the reasons behind such an activist endeavour, touching on 
various themes including questions around representation and the 
commodity value of the artists.

Grenzfurthner has collaborated with groups such as ubermorgen, Billboard 
Liberation Front, Esel and Mego (label). Grenzfurthner writes for 
various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, Telepolis, 
Boing Boing). Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. 
Steirischer Herbst, Graz). He holds a professorship for art theory and 
art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria and is 
a lecturer at University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.

Since 1993, the Monochrom members have devoted themselves to the grey 
zones where systems intersect: the art (market), politics, economics, 
pop, gaiety, vanity, good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, 
self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair. The technique 
underlying Monochrom's work is that of being and working in the fields 
of Pop/avant-garde, theory/reflection, interventionism/politics, 
gaiety/lust/tragedy, (self-)configuration/mystification. The project 
Monochrom pushes into and beyond these fields is, 'networking' events, 
people, possibilities, material, impetus and identities." (Zdenka 
Badovinac, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana)


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