In May 2025, to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Swiss kinetic sculptor, Jean Tinguely, Moss was invited to devise the scary moments to take place along the track of a historic ghost train in Basel, alongside Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez. The kunst-geisterbahn (art ghost train) was named Scream Machines and Moss contributed seven new works, including a catacomb wall of skulls with party blowers, a threatening 2.6m birthday cake to loom over the passing carts, a possessed jelly on a seance table, a parade of singing severed heads and a tunnel of Swiss cheese with horrible objects emerging from the holes.
The original Wiener Prater ghost train was 90 years old and two storeys tall. The project referenced ‘Le Crocrodrome de Zig et Puce,’ a collaborative installation featuring a giant crocodile, by Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Bernhard Luginbul and Daniel Spoerri, for the opening of Le Centre Pompidou in 1977. In the stomach of the beast was a ghost train, Tinguely’s contribution, and so for his birthday, Museum Tinguely rented the Wiener Prater ghost train to be transformed by the two artists.
Top photo by Kostas Maros, gallery below, by Matthias Willi.
