Cryptographies [2020]
Monday, 2.11.2020 8:00 p.m. Vienna, city center This project emerges from a terrorist attack that transformed the city into a crime scene. On Seitenstettengasse and its surrounding streets, an armed man opened fire indiscriminately, leaving twenty-three injured, four dead, and himself killed by police. When the news cycle receded, what remained were not only physical traces, but an atmosphere—an unresolved tension embedded in the place. I am interested in what lingers after violence: the echo that persists once the spectacle has passed. How does a territory absorb trauma? How does a street remember a massacre? The city bears its wounds quietly, forming a fragile crust over something that still throbs beneath the surface. This fanzine functions as an anthology of these residual signs—cryptic markings, silences, and textures that invite a forensic gaze. It addresses a distinctly human form of morbid curiosity: the urge to look closely in order to understand what exceeds comprehension, to confront the brutal through fragments rather than spectacle.