20 Jän 2004

Universitätsrektor Winckler bei Diskussionsveranstaltung getortet


Bei einer von der SPÖ Zukunftswerkstätte veranstalteten Podiumsdiskussion erlebte der Konflikt zwischen den Studierenden der Universität Wien und Rektor Winckler einen weiteren Höhepunkt. Durch sarkastischen Jubel und die Tortung von Rektor Winckler und dem Sektionschef Höllinger wurde die Veranstaltung gesprengt.

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PS.

Dieses Mal ein Beitrag zum Mao-Dadaismus vom
Buero für angewandten Realismus in Ludwigshafen (ca. 1999)

The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate the World Trade Organization on TV and at business conferences around the world.

The story begins with Andy and Mike setting up a website that looks just like that of the World Trade Organization. Some visitors don’t notice the site is a fake, and send e-mail invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives.

Delighted to speak as the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts don’t notice the joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up with.

Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy change their strategy completely, and take a whole new approach for one final lecture.

The Yes Men is directed by Dan Olman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith, whose previous credits include the 1999 Sundance Winner “American Movie.” It is being released by United Artists in the summer of 2004.