Buried Alive (performance)
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Buried Alive is an art and lecture performance series by art-tech group monochrom. The basic concept is to offer willing participants the opportunity of being buried alive in a real coffin underground for fifteen to twenty minutes. As a framework program, monochrom offers lectures about the history of the science of determining death and the medical cultural history of premature burial. To date, they have buried around 600 people. The series has created controversy[1][2] in some places it has been staged.
monochrom's founder and conceptualist Johannes Grenzfurthner states that the performance series wants to start a conversation about death, culture, medical and scientific myths and mass media.[3] Grenzfurthner says that one of the inspirations for the performance series was the wish to deal with his claustrophobic tendencies.[4]
Over the years the performance has attracted a lot of mainstream media coverage like the popular German TV show Joko gegen Klaas[5] on Pro7 and the Austrian TV series Herr Ostrowski sucht das Glück[6][7] on ORF.
Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive
The first public burials were organized in 2005, 2006 and 2007 as part of a performance tour. People in Los Angeles (at Machine Project),[8] San Francisco,[9] Vancouver[10][11] and Toronto[12][13] had the opportunity to be buried alive in a real coffin for fifteen minutes. No cell phones, lamps or other devices were allowed inside the coffin. Participants had to sign a damage waiver. monochrom provided a 45 minute lecture about the history of premature burial and offered a set of different funeral marches and songs about death as "Death Jockeys".
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The performance was repeated at the Viennese club Schwelle 7 in 2013 and 2014.[14][15]
Buried Alive (installation)
Since 2011 monochrom offers a constant burial site at VSL Lindabrunn in Lower Austria.[16][17][18]
References
- ↑ Toronto Star: "Alarm raised over burial performance"
- ↑ Bild.de: "Im TV-Duell gegen Klaas: Joko lässt sich lebendig begraben", 5 January 2014
- ↑ monochrom's "Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive"
- ↑ Zebrabutter: "Der Film Glossary of Broken Dreams oder: Im Schlachthaus Zum Goldenen Kalb"; April 25, 2018
- ↑ Pro7's Joko gegen Klaas – Das Duell um die Welt: "Joko in Österreich: Jokos Begräbnis"
- ↑ Herr Ostrowski sucht das Glück: "In der Einsamkeit"
- ↑ "Freizeit: "Michael Ostrowski über das Glück", April 2014". Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ↑ "Downtown LA: "Goodbye Maestro, and Are You Experienced?", 20 June 2005". Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ↑ Boing Boing: "Monochrom art happenings in San Francisco, July 8-23", 5 July 2005
- ↑ "The Georgia Strait: "Austrian artists play in the underworld", 14-21 July 2005". Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ↑ "National Post: "Vienna's Gift To The City Of Vancouver: An Early Grave", 14 July 2005". Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ↑ Toronto Star: "How to be buried alive", Erin Kobayashi, 6 February 2007
- ↑ Torontoist: "Attend your own funeral", Pandora Syperek, 6 February 2007
- ↑ "Heute: "Sex im Sarg: Alle sind schon sehr erregt", 29 November 2013". Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ↑ "Huck Magazine: "The Six Feet Under Club: an art project burying kinky couples alive", 31 March 2016". Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ↑ Mein Bezirk: "Kunstinstallation Buried Alive"
- ↑ OTS: "Das Nahtod-Erfahrungs-Doppelfeature"
- ↑ eSeL.at: "monochrom: Buried Alive Probeliegen"
