Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurther

First of all, I have to admit that I’m not a core member of Monochrom - but since our initial encounter a couple of years ago I really wanted to take precisely this picture for the family album. You might ask yourself, why? Maybe the answer is worth a short blog entry.

In spring 2005 I was working on a performance lecture on Charlie Manson as a cultural icon - remember calling the whole thing an “iconological approach to music sociology” - for the Serious Pop Symposium *), covering the topics of aesthetical appropriation and the analysis of fascistic structures in West-Eastern Pop Culture, when Johannes asked me to do a cameo in “THE FLOWER CURRENCY. A Hippyesque Post-Hippie Approach To Changing the World”.

Almost every book on American counterculture in the 60ties I’ve digged up in Austrian libraries represents the corner of Haigh and Ashbury as the so-to-speak epitomized symbol of “countercultural crossroads”, so still having these thoughts concerning our first encounter in mind I took my chances yesterday and finally did the shot with my cheesy mobile.

*) by Andreas Leo Findeisen (Transforming Freedom), Alexander Nikolic (SLUM TV) and Thomas Jelinek (Labfactory).

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