[spectre] Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 1.

[marc garrett]

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Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 1.

Marc Da Costa interviews the ever dynamic Johannes Grenzfurthner, 
founder of monochrom.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=408

This is the first of three interviews, where Grenzfurthner begins by 
talking about the project 'Soviet Unterzoegersdorf'; the fake history of 
the "last existing appanage republic of the USSR", also an 
adventure-game 'Sector 1 & II'. We look forward to publishing part 2 & 3 
of the interviews during the next few weeks.

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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