Fall of the Wall Campus Week Exhibition and Architecture Installation
September 22, 2014
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Daley Library, room 1-470
Address
801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
Calendar
Download iCal FileThe UIC Department of Germanic Studies is pleased to announce a Campus Week commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall. The Campus Week, which will take place September 22-27, is sponsored by the Information Center of the German Embassy. The full schedule of events, which includes a film screening, exhibit, architectural installation, panel discussion, and video essay contest, can be found on the German Department’s website.
“Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes”: Spotlights on the History of Europe in the Twentieth Century”
UIC Daley Library
Exhibit Opening, Monday, September 22, 4 pm, with remarks from Consul General Herbert Quelle of the Consulate General of Germany in Chicago.
The exhibition tells the tale of Europe’s 20th century as a dramatic story oscillating between freedom and tyranny, democracy and dictatorship.
On 26 billboards, the exhibition presents 190 photographs from European archives, as well as contemporary audio recordings, which can be accessed on location by smartphone.
Architecture Installation
UIC Memorial Grove
During the Fall of the Wall Campus Week, UIC students from the School of Architecture will construct a temporary pavilion engaging the topic ‘Confronting Dictatorship.’ Performative acts spanning the event will create specific opportunities for student exposure to topics that relate to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. Architecture students will spend the first third of the event erecting a pavilion acting as a visual barrier located along the Chicago Circle Memorial Grove path. The act of occupying and transforming public space will confront passers-by and invite their curiosity to the pavilion. A temporary exhibition installed within the completed pavilion will document historical moments from former student trips to Berlin.
During the middle part of the week, mini events by local artists will reenact the peaceful movements during the fall of the Berlin. At the conclusion of the Fall of the Wall Campus Week, the pavilion will be dismantled, and its newly graffitied exterior skin distributed as pieces of art connecting to the final fall of the Berlin wall and its oppression.
Date posted
Jun 4, 2020
Date updated
Jun 4, 2020