Iron Curtain - an English-Deutsches-Demokratisches Happening

Adrian Palka; Simon  Miles

Iron Curtain - an English-Deutsches-Demokratisches Happening

Adrian Palka (Director), Simon Miles (Artist)

Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Performance

https://www.vimeo.com/142738696

Abstract

A series of annual events in the Museum of Youth Opposition in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event took place in the Galilaa Church which was renowned as a location for punks to oppose the GDR dictatorship. The event drew on the notion of sound, memory and opposition. The event utilise the musical sculpture, the Steel Cello as a form of metaphorical Iron Curtain. Its all encompassing sound and archaic form acted as a touchstone for the sense of passing time that the event marked. The documentation submitted covers events # 1(2014) and #3 (2017).

Original language	English
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - Nov 2015

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A 24 hour reminiscence event and performance devised by Adrian Palka of CSAD and held in collaboration with the Museum fuer[jugend]widerstand (Museum of Opposition) in the Galilaa Kirche , Berlin on 9 November 2015 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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