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Museum Meltdown
II: The Vilnius Vengeance.
During April 97 we will launch the second Museum Meltdown episode as part of the show "Funny versus Bizarre" at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. Their piece is a 3D computer game where the architecture of The Art Centre has been reconstructed in a Duke Nukem environment. This by using the build editor of the game, which allows users to create their own maps, levels, con-files and graphics. What differs Duke
Nukem from other 3D action games like the original "Doom" is the Hollywood
style in the entertaining violence, its extreme nature of bad taste, rasist
and sexist clichees.
The History of Vilnius The Vilnius Vengeance
piece ask questions about alienation, repression, power and the dream of
freedom. The funny mix of reality into the fiction of the game becomes
twisted and bizarre with the notion of the actual historical events in
Eastern Europe. The game in itself contains a vast spectrum of realities
from concentration camps to American
themeparks and redlight districts. The game is always ready to satisfy
the sick nature of the male desire
for killing and fucking at the same time. In this dystopical world freedom
has no longer meaning.
The Technology The world of computer technology contains everything from high to low, from the hackers to the powerful multinational enterprises. This culture and its networks goes beyond democracy, aesthetics and ethics of the main society and could as well be defined as a super-culture or a trans-culture. The technology has a vast influence on our perception of reality. As it shapes the world around us the enviroment and the actual tools of perception and the question of identity becomes more complex and important to redefine. As the concept of space and our own presence becomes more and more unseparable, the relation between democracy and technology gets even more important. We decided to take
the architecture of the museum one step further and turn the space into
a violent computer game and hereby
emphasize these questions.
1996-1997
Tobias Bernstrup and Palle Torsson
Exhibition
Dates: April 18th - May 18th 1997
Address:
The Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius
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Museum Meltdown is a project by Palle Torsson & Tobias Bernstrup 1996-1999, |