01.07.10, Open Call for Submissions for projects for 2011

U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again
an NGBK Berlin art-project, initiated and run by Sofia Bempeza, Ania Corcilius, Jacopo Gallico, Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page. U10 is funded by the Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten / Kunst im Stadtraum and supported by BVG, Berliner Fenster and Wall AG

presents a call for submissions to a public art competition in the Berlin Underground Train Network for 2011

The Future of "Public" in Public Transport

NGBK calls for participatory and/or situation-specific ideas, visions, experiments and interventions about the present and future of the Underground and its protaganists. Fundamental is the thought that inhabitants can democratically participate in the  transformation of their city.

More Info here "Call for submission 2010/2011.pdf"

Deadline will be 01.10.2010.

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„Kronos-Projekt in Berlin's Underground Museum“

Saturday 12th June 2010, 14:30

The „Kronos-Model“
by Roland Boden in a 1:10 scale will be exhibited in Berlin's U-Bahn Museum as a long-term loan until the end of 2010.

In U-Bahn-Museum, Olympia-Stadion U-Bahnhof (U2).
Open on every second Saturday of the month from 10:30 to 16:00
www.ag-berliner-u-bahn.de

Roland Boden's research into an almost forgotten experiment with time travel known as Kronos-Projekt (or the Steglitz Deceleration Train) will become integrated in the Underground's history by the prescence of his Kronos-Modell in Berlin's U-Bahn Museum.

The artist has discovered evidence that a transformed, extremely slow moving, modified Underground train with 8 passengers has been travelling on the Underground in the Steglitz area of Berlin since 1926. 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.

His replica modell of the train will become of the museum's collection during 2010.
In collaboration with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner U-Bahn e-V.
More at www.kronos-projekt.de

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„Construction Time Again – phase II“

Download Invitation

As a continuation of her research into the history of the U10 line from 2009, the artist Katharina Heilein is building a model of the whole line with its planers, with U-Bahn enthusiasts and with locals living along its planned path. The model will be 100 meters long with numerous audio, video and model building contributions by Berliners. Final presentation at U-Bhf Schloßstrasse (U9) on the unused U10 platform in November.

If you live near the planned U10 line and would like to visit abandoned U10 spaces, look at original plans and walk the line above ground, please contact us on info@u10-berlin.de!

Dates in June:

19.06., 10:00 -12:00
View plans and begin building model of stations from Elbinger Str. to Alexanderplatz.
Meeting place: "SLOAP solutions" artist studio, Heynstr. 5, 13187 Berlin-Pankow

21.06.- 25.06.
Walks above the planned line from Elbinger Str. to Alexanderplatz.

Please make an appointment for the walks and for model building after 21.6. on info@u10-berlin.de or call 0173 2009608.

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U10 - Programme 2010

Summer

Roland Boden, „Kronos-Projekt“
The Kronos Model will be exhibited in Berlin's U-Bahn Museum as a long-term loan.
Opening on 12.6.2010 at 14:30, U-Bahn-Museum, Olympia Stadion U-Bahnhof (U2).
In collaboration with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner U-Bahn e-V.

Grit Ruhland, Sound Walk, 29.6. at 18:00
Grit Ruhland will guide interested participants through Underground Stations in south Berlin in June. Using various techniques she will try to sharpen each person's acoustic perception and consciously collect the noises and sounds of the Underground. Free. Like to take part? Write to us at info@u10-berlin.de or call 0173 6626915

Open Call for Submissions to U10 competition for projects for 2011
NGBK calls for participatory and/or situation-specific ideas, visions, experiments and interventions about the present and future of the Underground and its protaganists. Fundamental is the thought that inhabitants can democratically participate in the  transformation of their city. More Info from 01.07.2010 at www.u10-berlin.de/d-wettbewerb.htm. Deadline 01.10.2010.

Autumn

Sunday Walks along the U10
A series of thematical walks along the path of the planned U10 line, accommpanied by witnesses, artists, local residents and underground experts.

Evi Kruckenhauser, „Stereo-Sehen“
Evi Kruckenhauser is planning to show her ?Stereo-Sehen" video work on a train on the U2 line between Alexanderplatz and Wittenberg Platz. On a split screen passengers will see the journey they are making both underground and overground simultaneously. While below ground the camera travels the U2 tunnel, above ground it moves through a busy street, a house facade and a living room!
In collaboration with the BVG Department for ?Operation and Technical Coordination".

Grit Ruhland „Sound Chor“
IBVG staff and Underground passengers participating in the Sound Choir will work on the perception, reprocessing and interpretation of sounds on the Underground. In collaboration with the artist and a musician, the choir will perform interpretations, pieces, canons and gestures live in station entrances. Participants welcome!

Winter

Yuka Oyama und Axel Ruoff „Modern Fairy Tale in Berlin's Untergrund“
The artists have been collecting experiences, fantasies and thoughts from BVG staff about their work in the underground since November 2009. Based on these stories, Oyama and Ruoff are producing puppets and props for a short film illustrating a magical side to the Underground.
In collaboration with the Underground Drivers' Training School.

Katharina Heilein „Construction time again – phase II“
As a continuation of her research into the history of the U10 line from 2009, the artist is building a model of the whole line with its planers, with U-Bahn enthusiasts and with locals living along its planned path. The model will be 100 meters long with numerous audio, video and model building contributions by Berliners. Contributions welcome! info@u10-berlin.de.
Final presentation at U-Bhf Schlossstrasse (U9) on the unused U10 platform.

Dates and Info at: www.u10-berlin.de/d-news.htm
Enquiries or fancy participating in any of the projects? Write to: info@u10-berlin.de.

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„Worauf wartest du?“

"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/xojz20

or CD with Inlay for 5,- Euro at:www.freewebstore.org/artoflistening
Also available in the NGBK exhibition space.

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08.01.10, January and February 2010

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

"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.

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10.12.09, Potsdamer Platz

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...

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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12.11.09, Innsbrucker Platz

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.

Kronos-Projekt in the incompleted U10 station at Innsbrucker Platz on 12.11.09.
Photo: Francisco Queimadela

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.

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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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15.09.09, Schloßstrasse

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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