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Bonk Business Inc. is a Bonk Museum
/ref> where Bonk machines are displayed.
Bonk Business Inc. is a fictional corporation Fictional companies are often used in film, television, video games, books and comics where copyright or the likely chance of being prosecuted exists from using the name of a real company. They may be used on television in countries where the use ...
created by Finnish artist and sculptor Alvar Gullichsen
Alvar Gullichsen (born 1961 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish painter and sculptor. He is most famous for his pop art works and the fictional corporation named Bonk Business which he founded. Gullichsen's works are often absurd machines with no ...
. The "products of Bonk Business" are absurd machines, such as the ''paranormal cannon'', that have no apparent use, and which are built by Gullichsen. The story is that Bonk machines are powered by anchovy oil. The works parody corporate and marketing cliches in a retrofuturistic
Retrofuturism (adjective ''retrofuturistic'' or ''retrofuture'') is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipatin ...
style.
In Uusikaupunki, there is a Bonk museum,/ref> where Bonk machines are displayed.
See also
* Acme Corporation *Bunab
BunaB was the name of a line of purposely useless novelty products, promoted as if they were useful via carefully written marketing hype. They were created by American radio host Al Crowder (1904-1981). Beginning in the 1950s BunaBs were purporte ...
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