Minute of silence (Traiskirchen)
Minute of silence (Traiskirchen) was an art action by the Viennese media artist Raoul Haspel .
Against the background of the conditions in the overcrowded initial reception center in Traiskirchen in the summer of 2015, he recorded 60 seconds of silence as a peaceful, calm protest against the Austrian refugee policy. The recording, known as a minute of silence , was released as a single on August 21, 2015 and reached number 1 in the Austrian single charts a week and a half after its release .
All proceeds of EUR 14,660 went to a private refugee initiative that supports the residents of the refugee camp in Traiskirchen.
On October 3, 2015, Haspel held the minute's silence as part of the solidarity concert Voices-for-Refugees on Vienna's Heldenplatz with up to 150,000 people.
Web links
- http://www.raoulhaspel.com/schweigeminute/
- http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/raoul-haspel-nnahm-mit-schweigeminute-traiskirchen-12-000-euro-ein-a-1065370.html
- https://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Raoul+Haspel&titel=Schweigeminute+%28Traiskirchen%29&cat=s
Individual evidence
- ↑ ORF-Online: “Minute of silence” sold 8,924 times ; accessed on August 11, 2018.
- ^ ORF-Online: Heldenplatz: Concert for Refugees ; accessed on August 2, 2018.