Warten 1 is documenting the experiment which was executed on the 1st of June 1999 at Vienna’s Westbahnhof trainstation. Occasions to wait were given by all those trains that have been arriving within 24 hours from the far West. The attention was given, prior to a ritualized welcoming of the trains, to nothing but the waiting itself. The effects of this waiting were recorded with an etching needle and a pile of copperplates. Every resulting print of those plates (etchings) is trace of the waiting time dedicated to the arrival of a single train.

06.51, 07.38, 07.48, 08.08, 08.40, 08.55, 09.40, 09.50, 09.58, 10.40, 11.40, 12.40, 12.50, 13.40, 14.20, 14.40, 14.50, 15.40, 15.50, 16.40, 16.50, 17.40, 17.47, 18.40, 18.50, 19.40, 19.50, 20.40, 20.50, 21.20, 21.40, 21.50, 22.24, 22.40, 22.50, 23.20, 00.05, 00.55