Slopfest #94 · 2020 · Vienna
You're on Mute
The festival moved into a video call. Everyone was on mute. It was our quietest edition, and our best.
#94The AI refused to restore it on moral grounds.
Museum status: On view by appointment. Appointments not available.
- Venue
- Donauturm, a laptop balanced on the railing
- Attendance
- 61,000
- Fun fact
- 60,998 on mute, 2 talking, 412 sourdough starters
What happened
Slopfest 94 was a video call hosted from a laptop balanced on the Donauturm railing. Attendance peaked at 61,000, of whom 60,998 were on mute and two were talking over each other. A sourdough starter named Hermine, after the festival's longest-serving secretary, was elected to the committee and has attended every meeting since.
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
Elsewhere in 2020
Video calls become the default way to meet, and home sourdough baking surges, as people stay home during the 2020 lockdowns.
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