
26.04.2012 / Arts & Culture
Investigating the future
Picture an old Soviet-era amusement park in East Berlin. A ghastly place abandoned shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with wide green spaces populated with old dinosaur models, a pirate ship and an empty roller coaster.
This bewitching scenario persuaded a group of artists and curators to conceive a huge cultural project that will debut next June within the old Spreepark, renamed for the occasion as Kulturpark.
The idea is to organize a series of workshops, events and art installations focusing on the future of the park and examing the relationship between these “modern ruins” and their context.
Both the natural context – the lushy Treptower Park area along river Spree – and the social and cultural context of metropolitan Berlin.
The results will be presented during Kulturpark’s public debut by the end of next June, and their outcome should be a positive proposal for the park’s reconversion.
Carried on with the support of a good number of universties and institutions from Germany and the USA, the Kulturpark project also relies on Kickstarter, the net’s first crowdfunding.
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