G.A.S. (Sewer Gas & Electric)
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G.A.S. (Sewer Gas & Electric) |
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The "G.A.S." project is a new documentary / database / encyclopedia
based on the references and main characters of the comic-, science fiction novel:
"Sewer, Gas & Electric" "The Public Works Trilogy"
by Matt Ruff , 1997. The book's story could be described as a wild ride between
the good, the evil, and the indifferent. The New York sewer department that takes
explosives and small arms in the battle against the alligators and other mutant
creatures living in the effluent of the city, radical eco-terrorists with extravagant
submarines and the industrialist with huge dreams building towering shining monuments
to human acheivement. This documentary / database / encyclopedia looks deeper into
the main characters' (hi)stories, draws and doodles its own assumptions and new
fragmentary combinations out of the novel. Some characters you will meet in this
documentary / database are: Donald Trump, real estate tycoon and his buildings,
Ayn Rand and her pop philosophy and novels of the "heroic man," John
Edgar Hoover, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, the history of the submarine, and the
space monkeys. Documentation-Capture Project Installation / Exhibition Credits & Support |
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