Warning: Contents May Traumatize Car Lovers - Car Smashing Symphony

[ghosthunter]

http://www.esplanade.com/SOPApp/esps...oBA.Uf2bSQsJFM


Christian Von Richthofen
8 Jun 08, Sun, 8pm
Theatre


Car Smashing Symphony for ONE Night Only!


Warning: Do not try this at home… or at HDB car parks
Content may disturb and traumatise car lovers

Disclaimer: We will not be held responsible for any damage to your car caused by scorned spouses or jilted lovers

Belt up and set off on a side-splitting musical oddity that’s best described as a cross between a car crash and an a cappella group, with music ranging from Bach to Motörhead, from hip-hop to Tchaikovsky. All executed upon the various surfaces of a car, complete with showers of glass and steel shrapnel.

Christian von Richtofen and his sidekick turn a harmless and defenceless car into a bombed-out heap of scrap metal with the aid of a variety of weaponry such as an axe, a chainsaw, crowbars and sledgehammer, before an angle-grinder brings on the final annihilation – all in the name of music!

Expect windshield wipers to be ripped off and played like a violin, opera extracts and delivery of comic monologues in between the musical poetry of destruction as these doyens of diesel turn motoring into unbelievable music!
Auto Auto has become an international success, touring Germany, Belgium and Holland as well as premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007.

80mins, no intermission


Video - click the link below:
http://www.esplanade.com/apps/campai...video_auto.swf

[Negus]

Here's another guy destroying a perfectly fine Porsche 911 and calling it "art".

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDkFKLk39b8"]YouTube - Porsche 911[/ame]

from jalopnik:

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

I have no context or info on this as my German is not yet good enough and the shock would have prevented translation anyway. Apparently the leftover 997 cube went on display in Bregens last October. May the artist involved be sent to the ring of hell where you are repeatedly dipped in piping hot 10W40. We've been seeing far too much Verstoemmelung in the last few days. When will the chain of violence end?