S-C-H-A-N-D-E

Spatial installation by Anna Witt, Simon Nagy, Gin Müller, Mischa Guttmann and Eduard Freudmann (2022)

S-C-H-A-N-D-E is a spatial installation consisting of six concrete objects and a video. It is a continuation of the project Schandwache, which deals with the contested monument to the antisemitic mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger.

S-C-H-A-N-D-E

Spatial installation by Anna Witt, Simon Nagy, Gin Müller, Mischa Guttmann and Eduard Freudmann (2022)

S-C-H-A-N-D-E is a spatial installation consisting of six concrete objects and a video. It is a continuation of the project Schandwache, which deals with the contested monument to the antisemitic mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger.
S-C-H-A-N-D-E
The pedestal of Lueger’s monument got spraypainted in summer 2020, marking it as SCHANDE (disgrace). After the performative intervention of Schandwache (vigil of disgrace), the city authorities decided to keep the graffiti on the pedestal until the monument would get artistically reconfigured in 2023.

For their spatial installation, the artist group searches for a possibility to archive the graffiti permanently. The reconstructed pedestal fragments with the application "disgrace" do not negotiate the question of what should happen to the monument, but rather rehearse the possibilities of preserving the existing artistic intervention. The artwork under protection is not the memorial itself, but the intervention. The video shows the course of the different sections of the Schandwache and discusses a legal and restorative perspective on these interventions.

Credits
Commissioned and produced for the exhibition Gegen den Strich at Wien Museum, curated by Vincent Weisl.
The video features the criminal law expert Alexia Stuefer and the stone restorer Martin Pliessnig.

3d scan: Felix Kogler
Mold production: Stepan Nest
(Photos: Wien Museum)