Tuesday, August 27, 2002

More on the new Einst�rzende Neubauten internet project: In the sponsor-exclusive video section are rare and splendid video streams of set designer Erich Wonda's theatrical piece "Das Auge des Taifuns" ["The Eye of the Typhoon"]. This legendary performance took place on a rolling stage on the Ringstrasse in Vienna in 1992, and was to some extent Neubauten's Guernica. The "stage" looked something like a cross between a B-52 cockpit and the nearby rooftop office designed by Coop Himmelblau, and [from the liner notes of Strategies Against Architecture III] "incorporated elements such as artificial snowstorms and huskies on conveyor belts."

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