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Be An Auto Industry Tool For Kraftwerk MoMA Tickets
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 14, 2012
Modified Mar 14, 2012
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Remember how last month Kraftwerk tickets went on sale for an 8-night run at MoMA, and pretty much everyone scored ulcers instead of tickets? And those lucky bastards who did get tickets mysteriously died in a fire? (Or maybe we just dreamed that?) Anyway, all is not lost if you're a fan desperate to catch the electronica pioneer's first NYC appearance in seven years. The event's sponsor, Volkswagen, has tickets to give away for each night of the run! All you have to do is dance, monkey, dance.
Only 450 tickets were available to the general public each night, with an additional 50 going to Hitler's favorite car company. All you have to do is post an animated GIF of yourself to the new website "VWGIFaway.com." You can also enter just by supplying your contact info on the website, but making a GIF doubles your chances of winning. And should you win, Volkswagen will project your special GIF on the sides of buildings in NYC during the Kraftwerk retrospective, at locations TBD.
Guess we can't complain—these additional 400 tickets would probably all have gone to scalpers anyway. Like this enterprising individual selling a pair of tickets for $500 on Craigslist. In addition, Volkswagen is offering 500 pairs of tickets to view a temporary exhibition of Kraftwerk’s historical audio and visual material from April 12th to May 14th in the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome—in surround sound.
Klaus Biesenbach, who organized the exhibition and runs PS1, said, "The overall capacity for the entire retrospective is more than 4,000 guests. 'Kraftwerk - Retrospective 12345678' is going to be a unique experience, inviting an audience into a space as intimate in size as an artist's studio, with Kraftwerk playing their complete repertoire of 40 years from A-to-Z, one time only. The experience allows for a one-on-one experience with the performance, their 3D videos, the robots, the sound, and the voices, allowing the audience to witness art in the making, similar to Marina Abramovic's 'The Artist Is Present' which happened in the same location."
Sounds amazing! Too bad ShowClix, the company MoMA partnered with to sell the tickets, couldn't handle the demand, and pretty much everybody got screwed the day of the on-sale. The company's CEO later apologized, saying, "We failed many of you." If it's any consolation, Krautwerk tickets are still on sale.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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