for an art show with etoy i had the chance to escape to japan for 3 months. i was completly wrecked and tried to ignore the release of harper collins’ “leaving reality behind” book that hurt me more than anything else before. the book about “my life”, etoy and TOYWAR was written by a former friend of mine, regula bochsler. i considered her one of the 12 most important people in my life and blindly trusted her. for me to read the final draft of the script was a new dimension of human distraction! after working for 1 year with etoy (incl. full access to our archive, work and friends) the authors probably got under commercial pressure and started to mix and twist facts to get the plot they needed. among lots of dirty little stories the book limited female TOYWAR-HEROES like our CTO etoy.MONOROM or the transsexual performer COCO to my groupies and described my partners as naive acolytes but instead totally over pomoted the old etoy.BOY-GROUP that was history long before TOYWAR even started. COCO’s tragic suicide was just another hype for the story and on top of all this i was called “heinrich”, a fucked up devil who picked linz – the cultural capital of adolf hitler – to launch his international career as a greedy artist.

zai on the craziness that was and is etoy

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