Bullshit through a Viennese bullhorn

[imomus]

For the next three days I'm in Vienna attending and performing at Vienna Art Week as The Munchausen Docent, an unreliable art tour guide shuttling between commercial galleries telling lies about the work on display -- dispensing bullshit through a bullhorn, or flüstertüte, as the Austrians call it. The performance is curated by local art magazine Spike.

Momus: The Munchausen Docent
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008, 7:00 P.M.
AN DER HÜLBEN 2, 1010 VIENNA

"Momus (named after the Greek god of satire) is mainly known as a musician and blogger, but also makes appearances as an art figure and performance artist in international galleries and museums. Thus, for example, he accompanied the 2006 Whitney Biennial, serving his “disinformation mission” as an “unreliable tour guide” with political to absurd commentaries."

Comments

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Lie to us, Nick. Lie to us all!

[drywbach.livejournal.com]

What fun, I wonder whether it will appear on Vernissage TV.

If you meet some poor, bewildered soul who hears you and says "wow, really?" that's me. In spirit, anyway. It'd be interesting to see whether some of the lies resurface as badly-researched trivia in weeks or years to come.

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

" ...In life as in literature, we navigate via the stars of detail. We use detail to focus, to fix an impression, to recall. We snag on it. In Isaac Babel's story "My First Fee," a teenage boy is telling a prostitute a tall tale. She is bored and skeptical, until he says, fancifully, that he took "bronze promissory notes" to a woman. Suddenly, she is hooked."

(James Woods - How Fiction Works)

[(Anonymous)]

Decided to write about you
hehe

http://ahalf-warmedfish.blogspot.com/2008/11/oh-my-blog-ive-been-digitally-star.html

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Oh my!

Greetings from elegant Vienna, where all the statues seem to represent Goliath clubbing David to death.

[(Anonymous)]

fabulous!
nice to see Munchausen spreading
will this be in English or auf Deutsch?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Englitsch!

zzziiittt!

[the-transport.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

zzziiittt! i have already something to attend at this hour. that's the problem with vienna. always so many interesting things going on, not boring at all. but it's a city that doesn't reveal it self on the first glance. come back soon, pllliiizzz!

[sm255.livejournal.com]

!!flüstertüte!!!

What an excellent word. I have to say it many times.

If I were a cutely skinny pop star I would definitely make a song with 'flüstertüte' in the lyrics. Just saying.

Amanda Palmer?

[(Anonymous)]

Amanda Palmer? I know this face. And I know this voice, too. Friendly Wikipedia did help me to remember her. She's one half of the incredible ”The Dresden Dolls”. Very amusing cover version.