The text of a radio play by artist Sarah Mendelsohn begins as a fictional conversation among a group of cultural workers and city officials about how to address the problematic statue Kniender und straßenwaschender Jude installed at Albertinaplatz as part of Alfred Hrdlicka’s Mahnmal gegen Krieg und Faschismus. Over six chapters the focus expands to include personal narrative and associative thinking about the politics of public space and poetic signification.
Sarah Mendelsohn, artist, US Fulbright Fellowship, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Director, artist
Veranstaltung in Deutsch und Englisch
THNK TNAK ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe konzipiert von Dissertant_innen und PhD in Practice-Kandidat_innen der Kunstuniversitäten.
Kneeling and Streetwashing will be broadcast as an o94 Kultur-Spezial on ORANGE 94.0 - Das Freie Radio in Wien, on 26 June, at 16.00