Taken 100% from reality, this is a full length transcript of the fourth quarter 2009 Monsanto Company Earnings Conference Call, treated, layouted and published as an original theater piece.
The main acts are "Presentation", "Question-and-Answer Session" and "Copyright Policy", the main characters are H u g h G r a n t – President & CE,C a r l C a s a l e – EVP & CFO, T e r r e l l C r e w s – EVP, CEO Vegetable Business, S c a r l e t t F o s t e r – VP IR as well as various Analysts.
As Karsten Schubert puts it "A gulf has sprung between post-Duchampian, postmodern artistic practice and a still Modernist-Romantic interpretation of copyright."
Michalis Pichler
Appropriation Biotech Börse Camouflage Drama Entwendung Fundtext GM crop GM food Intertextualität Jahresbericht Karaoke Konzeptkunst Piraterie Proximation
If we wished to critique globalism, for example, I can imagine that reproducing/ framing the transcript as from yesterday's G8 summit meeting where they refused to ratify climate control threats would reveal much more about the truth of the situation than I could possibly say. Often, I feel it's better to let the text be what it is - generally, as in the case of the G8, they'll incriminate and hang themselves with their own stupidity. I call this poetry.Kenneth Goldsmith
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