Focussed on official documents and memorial works - on ideas and objects once sanctioned by a ruling political class - this artwork presented a portable headspace of sorts, where a stranger was gathering a record of the past. East German people were overwhelmingly positive in their response, often expressing both a happy nostalgia and a desire to provide further information in the form of stories and anecdotes. People who identified as West German, by comparison, would almost always pass comment on the tyranny of the GDR system and the good fortune that it no longer exists. A few also questioned what was in fact being remembered when one looks to monuments, documents, and official records when recalling the GDR period of Weimar today.

1. Title trans: "Outside(r) art to the memory of the German Democratic Republic"

This artwork was a temporary public intervention, presented in Weimar, Germany