TransitionPotsdamer Platz in Berlin is a place of restlessness and constant motion. 70,000 people pass through here on any given day. Businesspeople, travellers, cultural tourists: all of them in a state of transition and change. »Transition«, an exhibition on view on the SPOTS light and media façade on Potsdamer Platz from March 1 through June 8, 2006, picks up on this state of waiting and interprets it as art. The signs, film sequences and images on display are the work of internationally renowned artists fettFilm, Jonathan Monk and Terry Gilliam and are in the tradition of »Expanded Cinema«, which combines different levels of perception in film, performance, theatre and installation art. For »Transition«, the artistic positions leave their traditional display context and are transferred to the building’s architecture: The architecture itself becomes their stage.
Comments Ingken Wagner, the curator of the exhibition: »‘Transition’ symbiotically merges content, visual experience, and environment into ‘shining examples’ in the literal sense of the word. The works, with their idiosyncratic images, no longer have anything in common with the habits and predictability of projections.«
Due to the lively interest in »past people of Potsdamer Platz« it will play until 06.09.2006.
Exhibition »Transition«
- 01.03.2006 - 31.03.2006: fettFilm // »Signs Fiction«
- 01.04.2006 - 03.05.2006: Jonathan Monk // »A Wall of Lights Without Sound or Wall of Sound Without Lights Piece«
- 04.05.2006 - 06.09.2006: Terry Gilliam & Friends // »past people of Potsdamer Platz«
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