1990 ErotiKreativ – Sexuality beyond the clichés: Walter Reichl and Hermes Phettberg propose to my partner Heike Keusch (formerly Hans Mariacher) and me as a project a disposition performance in permanence as their contribution to the exhibition at the Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (WUK) in Vienna. Hermes Phettberg wants to spend two weeks - day and night - dressed only in an undershirt tied to a chain in the art space. Opening time, available to visitors blindfolded to reduce the inhibition threshold and spending exhibition time alone in the art space. Walter Reichl designs this room with photographs of scenes with Hermes Phettberg, which show him in various places tied up – patiently waiting for an interpersonal (sexual) interaction. In the room itself there are texts that describe the background of the "Project Manfred Strill" and why in the room a TV set plays the video of the sermon of Archbishop Hans Hermann Cardinal Groër on the occasion of the funeral of the last Empress of Austria (Zita) non-stop. Outside the room, an interview with Hermes Phettberg is taking place, in which he talks about himself. It soon becomes clear to an attentive observer that it is not the half-naked sadomasochist Hermes Phettberg that is the terrible thing, but that the funeral of the ex-empress in St. Stephen's Cathedral is an obscene staging of power. – Hermes Phettberg, as a former seminarian, already knew at that time that this God-fearing cardinal lived out his pedophile inclination on altar boys entrusted to him and abused his power to pacify his instincts. Other people close to the church also knew this, but it was not until five years later, in 1995, that Hans Hermann Groër had to resign as archbishop. A criminal case was never initiated against him. The Cross of Honour for Services to the Province of Lower Austria has not yet been revoked. (Clemens Feigel)

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