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NEWS_08.01.10
As part of the NGBK's Art in the Underground competition
U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again,
two of the selected artists' projects can be seen in January and February:
"Kronos-Projekt" by Roland Boden (D)
Extended to 07.02.2010
Installation in Potsdamer Platz Underground Station
(staff room windows on U2 platform during station opening hours)
"Kronos-Projekt"
The Kronos-Projekt, also known as the Steglitz Deceleration Train, is an experiment with time travel which began in 1926. A transformed Underground train coach with 8 passengers is moving extremely slowly on the Berlin Underground network. Believed to be somewhere north of Rathaus Steglitz station, the coach has advanced 317 meters in 83 years. For the time machine's passengers, that time span has felt like only 7 hours.
After the attempt in mid-November in Innsbrucker Platz station to reconstruct the Kronos-Machine as an animation and to contact the passengers acoustically, U10 nows presents a comprehensive documention and a 1:10 scale model of the Kronos-Machine on the U2 line platform in Potsdamer Platz station.
More at www.kronos-projekt.de
... and
"Invisible City" by Simon Grennan (UK) und Christopher Sperandio (USA)
until 28.02.10.
Installation of all nine comic portraits in Bernauer Str. Underground Station
(U8 Line)
"Invisible City"
It consists of comic portraits of night workers on the Underground on billboards and in the BVG magazine. In collaboration with BVG, Sasse Traffic Logistic GmbH, Securitas, Yadigar Flower Shop and Enis' Bakery.
Reminder...
"What are you waiting for?" by Alexandre Decoupigny (D) and Rae Spoon (CA)
A CD co-production with the BVG workers Georg Burkard and Wolfgang Adam.
Free download of the CD "What are you waiting for?"
made for U10 at www.sendspace.com/file/550cd0
or CD with Inlay for 5,- Euro at:www.freewebstore.org/artoflistening
Also available in the NGBK exhibition space.
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NEWS_24.11.09
NGBK Berlin, for U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again
presents two public art projects in Potsdamer Platz Underground and S-Bahn stations:
on Thursday, 10th Dezember 2009
at 7:30 p.m., in Potsdamer Platz underground station (U-Bahnhof)
(in staff room on the U2 Line platform.)
Presentation of the „Kronos-Projekt“
by the German artist Roland Boden (D)
The Kronos-Projekt, also known as the Steglitz Deceleration Train, is an experiment with time travel
which began in 1926. A transformed Underground train coach with 8 passengers is moving extremely
slowly on the Berlin Underground network. Believed to be somewhere north of Rathaus Steglitz station
the coach has advanced 317 meters in 83 years. For the time machine’s passengers, that time span
has felt like only 7 hours.
After the attempt in mid-November in Innsbrucker Platz station to reconstruct the Kronos-Machine as an
animation and to contact the passengers acoustically, U10 nows presents a comprehensive
documention and a 1:10 scale model of the Kronos-Machine on the U2 line platform in Potsdamer Platz
station. From 10.12.09 to 17.01.2010 (accessible during station opening hours.)
More at www.kronos-projekt.de and on Berliner Fenster (in-train TV programme) from 05. to 11.12.09 and from 19. to 25.12.09. more...
Kronos-Projekt in the incompleted U10 station at Innsbrucker Platz on 12.11.09.
Photo: Francisco Queimadela
at 8:30 p.m., in Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn railway station (S-Bahnhof)
(“U3 Tunnel”, Entrance in the staircase of the S-Bahn exit “Leipziger Platz und Bundesrat”, next to Müller chemists. Below Café Caras, Leipziger Platz 1.)
Presentation of the projekt „Construction Time Again – Phase 1“
by Katharina Heilein (D)
Installation and discussion with the Berlin artist Katharina Heilein and Udo Dittfurth (town planer and
head of Berlin’s S-Bahn Museum), Christfried Tschepe (town planer und Berlin Transport Assoc. „IGEB“),
Erhard Hübner-Kosney and Rüdiger Lemnitz (both Dept. of Transport, City Planning Office), Dieter Müller
(former S-Bahn driver and participant in the film 'Berliner Stadtbahnbilder') and Alfred Behrens (filmmaker
and scriptwriter). Audio installation by the artist Brigitte Krämer.
29.12.1983, West Berlin Council takes over the DDR-run S-Bahn lines in West Berlin. Signing of the agreement
in Schöneberg Borough Hall by Joachim Hinkefuss (re., West Berlin Council) and Gerhard Meissner (DDR Railway Company).
Photo: ullstein - Lauer
In 1983, negotiations between West Berlin City Council, East Berlin/DDR and the Allies led to a change
of ownership of the S-Bahn (local trains) in West Berlin. The DDR passed ownership over to the West
Berlin Underground Company (BVG). As a result, the BVG cancelled its plans to build Underground lines
parallel to the previously DDR-owned S-Bahn line. The construction of the U10 line was therefore
abandoned at this point, leaving various incompleted stations and tunnels. 26 years later, Katharina
Heilein has invited witnesses of these developments to recall the curiosities of the DDR-owned, run-down
S-Bahn lines in West Berlin and to reimagine the potential of the abandoned U10 line.
In 2010, her project 'Construction Time Again - Phase 2' will invite the public to help her build a model of
the imaginary U10 line. mehr...
Free entrance
Other artwork on the Berlin Underground as part of U10:
„Invisible City“ by Simon Grennan (UK) and Christopher Sperandio (USA).
"Invisible City“ consists of ten comic portraits made about night workers on the Underground on
billboards In collaboration with BVG, Sasse Traffic Logistic GmbH, Securitas, Yadigar Flower Shop and Enis’ Bakery. At Underground stations:
Kottbusser Tor (U8 platform) until 28.12.09 (single portrait, changing)
Bernauer Str. (U8) from 10.12. to end Feb. 2010 (all ten portraits)
... and in the December and January issues of „Plus“, the passenger magazine.
"What are you waiting for?" by Alexandre Decoupigny (D) and Rae Spoon (CA).
A CD co-production with the BVG workers Georg Burkard and Wolfgang Adam.
Free download of the CD "What are you waiting for?" made for U10 at: http://www.sendspace.com/file/uqxvn9
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NEWS _28.10.09
Thursday, 12th November 2009, 7:30 p.m.
(Presse ab 18:30 Uhr, öffentlicher Zugang ab 19 Uhr)
Presentation of the „Kronos-Projekt“
by the German artist Roland Boden (D)
At Innsbrucker Platz Underground Station (entrance from U4 platform)
In the shell of the incompleted U10 station, abandoned since the part-reunification of Berlin’s transport systems in 1984.
...One-off access to this historic site! Doors open at 7 p.m. Entrance free.
The Kronos-Projekt, also known as the Steglitz Deceleration Train, is an experiment with time travel
which began in 1926. A transformed, extremely slow moving Underground train with 8 passengers
has apparently been travelling on the Underground in the Steglitz area of Berlin for over 30,500 days.
In that period, this time machine has advanced 317 meters, in a time span that has appeared to its
occupants to be only 7 hours.
On 12th November the incompleted, publically inaccessible station on the once planned U10 line
will be the site of a public presentation of the Kronos-Projekt. An attempt will be made to contact
the experimentees via audio. A video projection and a sound installation will give an insight into the
dimension of the experiment which has been ongoing since the twenties but remains almost
unknown.
Roland Boden’s investigation into the Kronos-Projekt consists of comprehensive research into
archives, consultation with witnesses and scientists, a documentation and scale model
reconstruction of the Steglitz Deceleration Train, for 83 years on the move in the Underground.
For the Kronos-Projekt, Berlin’s Underground provides the backdrop for a major scientific experiment
to change our space-time continuum. In the light of Roland Boden’s research, observations made on
Berlin’s transport system once thought of as trivial may now be of importance. Underground
passengers and staff are requested to contribute reports of any relevant experiences and encounters
and to help extend the knowledge about the Kronos-Projekt to: kronos-projekt@gmx.de.
more...
Other artwork on the Berlin Underground as part of U10:
„Invisible City“
by the artist Simon Grennan (UK) and Christopher Sperandio (USA)
"Invisible City“ consists of ten comic portraits made about night workers on the Underground.
In collaboration with the Berlin Underground Company (BVG), Sasse Traffic Logistic GmbH, Yadigar
Flower Shop, Enis’ Bakery and others.
Underground station Schloßstraße (U9 direction Rathaus Steglitz) from 15.10. to 23.10.09
Underground station Kottbusser Tor (U8 direction Hermannstr.) from 13.11. to 28.12.09
Underground station Innsbrucker Platz (platform U4) from 02.11. to 28.12.09
On Berliner Fenster (in-train TV programme) from 9.11. to 20.11.09 (Mo.-Fr. from 4 to 12 p.m.)
In Plus (BVG’s passenger magazine) monthly from October 2009
„Untitled“
by the artist Hans Polterauer (AT)
Hans Polterauer's video piece creates an imaginary connection to the Berlin Underground from his
garden in the Austrian countryside. It evokes themes of city and countryside, periphery and centre.
It can be seen on the BVG's in-train TV programme, „Berliner Fenster“, for two weeks.
Berliner Fenster (in-train TV programme) from 15. to 28.10 (Mo.-Fr. from 6 to 10
a.m., Sa.-Su. from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
„What are you waiting for?“
by the artist Rae Spoon (CA) & Alexandre Decoupigny (D)
Musicians and sound artists Alexandre Decoupigny & Rae Spoon play songs at Stations about
dreams and ambitions of Underground passengers. Their performance and CD "What are you waiting
for?“ is the result of a careful inquiry into the desires and wishes of those waiting on platforms.
Produced in collaboration with the BVG bus driver Georg Burkard and the former BVG engineer
Wolfgang Adam and numerous members of the public.
Underground station Kleistpark (entrance Potsdamer/Grunewaldstr.) on 14.10. (8 - 9 a.m.)
Underground station Potsdamer Platz (platform U2) on 14.10. (4 - 5 p.m.)
Underground station Innsbrucker Platz (in front of Supermarkt) on 15.10. (8 - 9 a.m.)
Underground station Schloßstraße (in front of Supermarkt) on 15.10. (6 - 8 p.m.)
Underground station Wittenbergplatz (mainhall) on 16.10. (10 - 11 a.m.)
Underground station Alexanderplatz (next U5, entrance Kongresshalle) on 16.10. (5 - 6 p.m.)
Free Download of the CD "Worauf wartest Du?" by Alexandre Decoupigny und
Rae Spoon at www.sendspace.com/file/uqxvn9
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Presseerklärung 15.09.09
Thursday, 15th October 2009, 7 p.m.
Opening of the NGBK public art project on the BVG Berlin Underground network „U10 - von hier aus ins Imaginäre und wieder zurück“
with work by Alexandre Decoupigny (D) & Rae Spoon (CA), Simon
Grennan (UK) & Chris Sperandio (USA), Hans Polterauer (AT)
At Schlossstrasse Underground Station (Line U9 direction Osloer Str.)
U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again presents the Berlin Underground
network as a parallel underground world. Routine yet full of secrets, the Underground acts as a
mirror of Berlin’s history and as a seismograph of the city’s current feel. As part of an international
public art competition, eight projects have been selected to explore the Berlin underground as a real
and as an imaginary world. Four will be realised in 2009.
The name U10 refers to a line on the Berlin Underground which was originally conceived in the 1930s
but, due to the end of the Cold War, was never been finished. Today it remains derelict, consisting of
fragments of tunneling and abandoned, incompleted stations. The U10 line’s unknown existance (or
non-existance) and its fantastical and historical qualities as a mystical place and a relic of divided
Berlin offer the artists a number of points of approach.
From 300 applications to the U10 international open competition, eight artistic projects were
selected to explore the Berlin Underground network as a real place and an imaginary world. Projects
by Roland Boden, Katharina Heilein, Yuka Oyama & Axel Ruoff, Grit Ruhland und Evi
Kruckenhauser will be realised in the coming months. The collaborations between the selected
artists, BVG staff of various professions and other Underground experts sets U10 within the context
of an art practice acting in the interest of society and bringing art discourse into new social realms.
Programme
7 p.m.
Welcome adress in the Schlossstrasse Station (U9 platform, direction Osloer Str.).
Introduction to the history of the U10 line by Uwe Kutscher (BVG Head of Dept. for Infrastructure)
and presentation of Grennan & Sperandio's and Decoupigny & Spoon.
8 p.m.
Evening programme in the legendary „Bierpinsel“ observation tower above the station (access via the
lift in the station at Schildhornstr. exit). Including a conversation between Kate Squires (artist and art
mediator, London/Berlin) and the artists Grennan & Sperandio, a reading by the BVG bus driver
Georg Burkard from his collection of notes made in tea breaks and live music by the sound artists
and musicians Alexandre Decoupigny and Rae Spoon and by the former BVG engineer and member
of the „Down the Line“ country band, Wolfgang Adam. Hot soup and beverages will be offered.
Free entrance
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