I can see you sizzling in Hades!

He screamed into the microphone: I, the Monosau, am generally weary of those stupid outrageous little idiot-monolyths we have in our silly minds…Here’s the first song: Building-on-me… after three months the time had come: the song was finally sung, followed by 8 more, and the hit at the end!

In the mid-1990s, Jonathan Meese, the ant of world-class art, compiled photocopies of hand-written, self-authored German and English texts, drawings and photographs in an artist book made of an artless binder. Some of the texts revolve around his own creative linguistic coinages and relate to both well-known and invented personalities, myths, people of power, history and pop culture. Meese is obsessed with recombining them to create new meanings and his own private mythology, a practice characteristic for his artistic approach. Transgressing conventions, he never ceases to derive new correlations and patterns from these combinations. The book contains Gold 1-Gold 7; Zeichnung ‚de‘; Gold 8-Gold 10; Prolog; Die Monosau; Go Mary, Gold and King of Hearts; Something in something; Das üble Schloss und Monsieur Maigret; Einige Kröten sind on the rocks again; Schatzl-City-Inslerussüs; Lollytzs; Rudolpho Valentino; Tea-Shooting, among many other short prose.

Brigitte Meese, the artist’s mother, typed out all these texts in vespertine diligence, in order to send the manuscript to any and all of the prestigious German literary publishers, as her son aimed at nothing less than revolutionising the literary genre of the novel. After receiving downright rejections from across the board, Meese rededicated the dummy into a book object, which sold in a small print run through his art gallery. Now the book has been published as a paperback edition to finally see its true destiny – being sold to the public in bookstores.

Jonathan Meese opposes any form of patronizing, and he is a firm opponent of political systems, religious doctrines and unsophisticated ideas. He strives for autonomous works of art, innocent play free of ideology, and a theatre night free of direction. This means: Caps off! for starters. Plus: Stand at attention! Stand dignified in the service of the text! And understand once and for all that K.U.N.S.T. is not the same as culture! K.U.N.S.T. is yesterday and tomorrow. K.U.N.S.T. seriously doubts everything, even itself, to infinity and farther beyond…

HERO LISTING:
Gnaeus
Homer
Richard Wagner
Isis
Echnaton
Stanley Kubrick
Narses
Maldoror
Nero
Balthis
Volks
Selbstcaligula
Marquis de Sade
Wallenstein
Nofretete
Caruso
Nabob Dandupant
Stalin
Lohengrin
Artaud
Nonninei
de Sepp
Bruckner
Krnprinz Rudolf
Mary Vetsera
Klossowski
Alexis Sorbas
Proust
Elixiere des Teufels
Paracelsus
Alex de Large
Hal
Hagen von Tronje
de Gral
Erich v. Stroheim
Weidenmann
Schopenhauer
Fieberkommandant
Erzgott
Erzsöldner
Metabayreuthonon
de Tenno
Barry Lyndon
Walhalla
Clockwork d’Orange
August Stramm
T. Capote
Guyotat
Inquisition
Wahnfried
Mao
Rasputin
Ketzer
Rübezahl
Isisselbst
Robbespierre
Richard Kinski
Nietzsche
Kalinin
Mike Tyson
Mishima
Rimbaud
Ramses II
Pound
Fred Astaire
Brahms
…

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