This work focuses on entries (drawings and texts) in an account book that I found. Working on this book stems from my examination of the emotional prerequisites/distortions for authoritarian structures to be a “success” – whether in politics, personal relationships etc. In the process, my questions revolved above all around one’s own responsibility towards subjugation, the ability to “not feel” as a requirement for occupying authoritarian positions and persecution.

Later, I researched the history of this company in the archives of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna and ascertained that it was an account book from 1938/1939 belonging to the sole trader Wilhelm Silberstein, proprietor of the business R. Robitschek Nfg., Lothringerstrasse 8, Vienna (4^th District), which traded in cars, motorbikes and technical requisites.

Page 83 was printed on 27 July 2000 by artpool/museum in progress in Der Standard newspaper, page 15 as part of the discussion held at the time on compensation for forced labour.

See also: www.mip.at/projects/transact and 

http://derstandard.at/1263706311947/TransAct-Zeugnisse-zivilen-Ungehorsams

accountbook | mixed media | 26 x 41,5 x 1,5 cm, opened: 52,5 x 41,5 cm | 100 pages | cotton cover | 2000