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Temporary projections by different artists onto the front windows of the "Birthlerbehörde zur Aufarbeitung der Stasiunterlagen, Berlin".
A project by Sybille Hofter, Berlin 2005. |
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The building complex is situated close to Alexanderplatz. This area is dominated by arterial roads and large prefabricated concrete buildings. During the communist era, the "Haus der Statistik" was located in this building. The artists were invited to tackle the historical as well as the contemporary importance of the place and its urban integration.
The work "News from Nowhere" contained the sentences listed to the right. It refers to quotes from drafts of utopian models of society from the second half of the 20th century. The quotes become interesting at these historically symbolic places - the State Security Service office of the former GDR and the neigh- boring Frankfurter Allee (formerly Stalin Alee) - when consider- ing what remains of an idealized draft for society, in the face of the difficulty of its implementation concerning the role of the individual. Here, the principal question is posed about the future of a post-industrial society which has used up its resources. |