Iron Curtain 1: An English-Deutshces Demokratisches Happening; Iron Curtain 3: Kaos Am Wall.
- Submitting institution
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University of East London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 20
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Galilee Church, Berlin
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- November
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
- URL
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https://vimeo.com/249177825
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Iron Curtain 1(2014) and 3 (2017) enquires into the processing of historical change and its relationship to personal experience, specifically through the overlapping and contradictory experiences of migration between East and West Berlin.
Research aims included explorations of:
1. The affective, signifying potential of sound-emitting objects in performance and installation
2. The use of collage to disrupt spectatorial subjectivity
3. The potential of the portable projected image to interrogate space and memory
4. The movement of film away from the institutionalised space
The methodology used for these explorations included: the use of Rutman’s steel cello as a metaphorical sound ‘curtain’ and projection screen; a live collage of ephemera and objects brought to the event by the visitors; the use of hand-held pico projectors operated by the visitors to contribute to the collage of memory; and the projection of pre-unification documentary narratives onto a ‘wall' of blank placards held by ‘protestors’.
As part of a team comprising Adrian Palka, Wolfram Spyra, and Nick Coombe, Miles’ role was both conceptual (creative development and curation) and practical. In Iron Curtain 1, his direct creative output was the facilitation of the participatory projected collage and in Iron Curtain 3, with Coombe, he was responsible for the pico projection and placards. Iron Curtain 1 and 3, the first and last of a series of three events held in Berlin supported by Museum Galiläakirsche and funded by the District Cultural Fund Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
The Iron Curtain work has led to two invitations to collaborate on similar performative experiments related to memory, one organised through the Cultural Centre of the Polish (formerly German) town of Dzierżoniów and one at the museum at Helmstedt-Marienborn (the most important border crossing between East and West Germany before unification).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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