. . . . "995478347"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "4734"^^ . "Wir kaufen Seelen"@de . . "60006708"^^ . "Wir kaufen Seelen (also known as Seelenankauf or Soul Sale) is a 1998 performance by Austrian art theory group monochrom and is considered a significant work in the group's history and Austrian art history in the 1990s. On 1 November 1998 (All Souls' Day), monochrom members Johannes Grenzfurthner and Harald Homolka-List (supported by their friend Ulrich Troyer) staged a \"spirituo-capitalist booth\" at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz (very close to St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna's first district) where the project members tried to buy the souls of passers-by for ATS 50 (roughly US$5) per soul. The \"acquisition team\" performed an \"evaluation routine\" to check the \"quality\" of the soul of interested sellers, for example by asking jargon-laden philosophical questions, by using a divining rod and similar pseudoscientific techniques. A total of fifteen were purchased and registered. These souls are still being offered for sale to third parties. The group sees the project - beyond all philosophical discourses and argumentation seeking to prove the existence of God or an afterlife - in the classical sense of a market driven by supply and demand. For the group it \"doesn't actually matter if there is a soul, as long as it can be sold for a profit. The soul is a tradable commodity, a form of virtual capital.\" The performance has been presented in exhibitions and debated in magazines and in academic circles."@en . "Wir kaufen Seelen (auch bekannt als Seelenankauf oder Soul Sale) ist eine Kunstperformance der Kunst- und Theoriegruppe monochrom aus dem Jahre 1998. Die Performance gilt als wichtige Kunstaktion in der Geschichte der Gruppe und der \u00F6sterreichischen Kunstgeschichte der 1990er Jahre."@de . . . . "Wir kaufen Seelen (auch bekannt als Seelenankauf oder Soul Sale) ist eine Kunstperformance der Kunst- und Theoriegruppe monochrom aus dem Jahre 1998. Die Performance gilt als wichtige Kunstaktion in der Geschichte der Gruppe und der \u00F6sterreichischen Kunstgeschichte der 1990er Jahre."@de . . . . . . . . "Wir kaufen Seelen"@en . . . . "Wir kaufen Seelen (also known as Seelenankauf or Soul Sale) is a 1998 performance by Austrian art theory group monochrom and is considered a significant work in the group's history and Austrian art history in the 1990s. The group sees the project - beyond all philosophical discourses and argumentation seeking to prove the existence of God or an afterlife - in the classical sense of a market driven by supply and demand. For the group it \"doesn't actually matter if there is a soul, as long as it can be sold for a profit. The soul is a tradable commodity, a form of virtual capital.\""@en . . . . . .