Due to the lively interest in »past people of Potsdamer Platz« it will play until 06.09.2006.

Four headless figures will be placed on Potsdamer Platz for five weeks, operating as video terminals of sorts. They reflect the position of people on Potsdamer Platz. As headless figures, the terminals’ exterior makes them seem outsiders and eccentrics. They become a game that passers-by play with themselves. The transition from interiority to exteriority, from the private to the public, is reflected within the figures and without, in the façade of light: it turns matters on their head. The headless figures are home to our past. This past is signified by videos of historical events that are shown on monitors installed inside the headless figures.

Pushing a button starts the video and, at the same time, takes pictures of the observer. The faces in the now that are collected this way merge with the historical footage on the façade into a moment both present and past. The city’s pulse acts as the animation’s metronome. Each individual becomes a part of something new, some- thing larger, at times invisible. It is this that the façade makes visible. And it reminds us of the many layers we carry within our selves and reveals that every moment carries all times in it. At the blink of an eye, at the stroke of a metronome, the specific becomes indistinct and dissolves into the whole.
Due to the lively interest in »past people of Potsdamer Platz« it will play until 06.09.2006.