INTERSECTION
An interactive video installation at S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz and Marshall McLuhan Salon

30 January – 7 February 2010
Vernissage: 29 January, 19:00 (S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz, Regionalbahnpasserelle Süd)

INTERSECTION by Canadian artists/inventor Graham Smith chronologically explores the symbolic nature of the Berlin Wall, the tangible element that brought the Cold War into focus, allowing the untouchable to be touched.
Located underground at the Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station, running below the former ‘Death Strip’ INTERSECTION transforms the static images from the past into a constantly morphing vista of the present.
Above ground, where the former Wall dissected Berlin, the Marshall McLuhan Salon hosts Smith’s 4 screen video installation revealing the perspectives of people who lived in Berlin during the unique period between the fall of the Wall on 9 November 1989 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

At the House of World Cultures for the duration of the festival, transmediale.10 present two large-format photographs from the project INTERSECTION which is also being presented as an installation at two other sites in Berlin.

(Regionalbahnpasserelle Süd) S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz, Opening times 11:00 – 18:00 (Saturdays until 20:00)

Marshall McLuhan Salon, Botschaft von Kanada, Ebertstr. 14, 10117 Berlin Opening times: 1 – 5 Feb: 10:00 – 18:00; 6 – 7 Feb: 14:00 – 18:00