The Cold War was felt but never seen, a global conflict that shaped the world that always remained just below the surface of perception, like a horrific mirage. INTERSECTION 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.

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Embassy of Canada, Berlin

INTERSECTION – Graham Smith
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)

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

transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture – with Graham Smith
3. Februar, 18:00

Botschaft von Kanada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin

INTERSECTION II – Graham Smith
Opening 2 February, 9 a.m.

Marshall McLuhan Salon, Botschaft von Kanada, Ebertstr. 14, 10117 Berlin

Öffnungszeiten: 1. – 5. Feb: 10:00 – 18:00; 6. – 7. Feb: 14:00 – 18:00