- Exhibition at 'Friseur der Botschaft'
- ASA as part of 'richtig 92'
- 1992
Space I: 'Kitty Genovese-Scene of Crime' Documentation"; 5 B/W Fotos, 1 Table with CD-ROM-Print of scientific publications on the bystander-effekt between1965 und 1992.
Space II: 'Being in the public is an adventure', ASA-Slide-Show + Music: "The Pink Room" (Angelo Bdalamenti)
Excerpt of a conversation between A.M. Rosenthal, Metropolitan Editor of the New York Times and M.J. Murphy, Police Commissioner of New York, at Emil's near City Hall on March 23rd, 1964.
Rosenthal: What about that double confession out in Queens, what's that story all about anyway?
Murphy: That Queens story is something else. Remember we talked about apathy, public apathy toward law enforcement?
Rosenthal: Yeah, I remember.
Murphy: Brother, that Queens story is one for the books. Thirty-eight people watched a woman being killed in the Queens
story and not one of them called the police to save her life.
Rosenthal: Thirty-eight?
Murphy: Yes, thirty-eight. I've been in this business a long time, but this beats everything.
Catherine 'Kitty' Genovese is the 'Queens story'. She was killed March 13th 1964. The killing lasted half an hour and thirty-eighteyewitnesses saw everything but did nothing. Since that time, a large amount of social psychologists tried to explain this phenomenon, that became known as the so called bystander effect. Nevertheless and unfortunately, the'Queens story' still remains an every days case. The ASA (Association for Strategic Accidents) offers new perspectives!
