Guests: My sister and her boyfried are visiting Vienna this weekend. On Friday we have visited the Mumok. I liked the exhibition of the "Costakis Collection", a greek diplomat who collected russian Avantgarde. I bought the exhibition catalogue, so that i... [more]

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Visited the Mumok yesterday, the Baldessari exhibition was really worth a visit.
I was a bit disappointed by the Rainer Ganahl exhibition, although the idea of painting websites was funny.

I did not understood why he filmed 500h of Arabic lessons on VHS and a video from a bicycle tour through Damascus City ("The handlebars look like a crosshair").

I admit the 500 hours of Arabic lessons thing was a bit obscure... but the postcards written to famous living and dead Austrians telling them to "please teach me Arabic" were funny. I also liked the thing he did with those American postcards, and his "Homeland Security" video in which he tells viewers in various languages that he is not a terrorist and does not know how to make bombs. I didn't get the "crosshairs" reference about the Damascus video either, but I thought it was pretty good, and the "Basic Arabic" photographs with the seemingly disconnected sentences on them weren't bad either.