ZOMBIA

The Blackwood Gallery Summer Project Presents:

monochrom and the Nation of Zombia

A zombie is a member of the Zombie Nation -- which wants to turn the United States of America and the Federal Constitutional Monarchy and Parliamentary Democracy of Canada into Zombia, the home of the Zombies -- and the official representative of the Zombie Nation.
A zombie has to hold a certification.

A zombie looks like and acts like every average North American because he or she is an average North American apart from the fact that he or she is a zombie -- which means an ex-human.
Each zombie can infect any other US and Canadian citizens. Sometime in the future a zombie might address you. Think of it as a chance. But please be aware: Being turned into a zombie is a legal act of naturalization.

To become a zombe please email: ceckert@utm.utoronto.ca

Do you already have your Zombie document and you want to register?
Please register here. Please have your Zombie Registration Code ready. Please have your Zombie Registration Code ready.

You want to see how Zombia grows?
You can find the epidemic map here. Thank you for your interest.

http://www.monochrom.at/zombia/

monochrom

The Blackwood Gallery and Mercer Union present

monochrom:
"We're great together, the liberal society and it's enemies"

A lecture/event at Mercer Union, 8pm, Thursday July 13th, 2006

Free Admission

monochrom from Vienna is a collective, operating worldwide, that deals with technology, art, context hacking and philosophy and was founded in 1993. 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 has 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 hosted the first annual and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography as one of the driving forces of technological innovation. Also they do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet theatre, aesthetic pregnancy counseling, food catering and -- sorry to mention -- modern dance.

monochrom’s medley at Mercer Union is a little tour-de-farce about their projects and political motivation. The evening also features a teaser for the Blackwood Gallery’s upcoming project “18:Beckett”. Altogether, this evening will be 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.

www.monochrom.at/english

http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca

http://www.mercerunion.org

For further information please contact cvictor@utm.utoronto.ca or dave@mercerunion.org