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Stasi City is the name invented by a German journalist to describe the different buildings of the former headquarters of the East German secret police that he visited in 1989, just after the site was abandoned.
In 1997, Jane & Louise Wilson, fascinated by the meaning attached to buildings staged the location to realise one of their most disturbing work. In the Wilson Twins' 'Stasi City', the lugubrious maze of surveillance and interrogation rooms is deserted but still disquieting. The artists explained: "We were thinking of a prison as a very confined space, but also of the confinement of being in East Berlin, of not being able to go those few feet further into West Berlin. Imagine that kind of restriction." (In: 'In Stereoscopic Vision: A dialogue between Jane & Louise Wilson and Lisa Corrin', in: 'Jane & Louise Wilson', London 1999, p. 13.)
The photograph that depicts the Interview Corridor of the Hohenschnhausen Prison is one of the most haunting of the series; in a mental space inhabited with totalitarian ghosts the time seems suspended. This hallucinatory ambience being enhanced in the original installation by the presence of a gigantic video installation and of reconstructed doors in addition to the series of still photographs.
In Interview Corridor, the absolute symmetry of the doors evokes the paranoia of George Orwell's universe as well as the refined aesthetic of Stanley Kubrick, a feeling confirmed by the twins: "the site was surrounded not only by walls or fences but also by our fears. The point is to get in there and dispel those fears by engaging with them through the work. We shouldn't avoid thinking about these places and what they signify. They are clearly part of our consciousness." (ibid. , p.11.)
In 1997, Jane & Louise Wilson, fascinated by the meaning attached to buildings staged the location to realise one of their most disturbing work. In the Wilson Twins' 'Stasi City', the lugubrious maze of surveillance and interrogation rooms is deserted but still disquieting. The artists explained: "We were thinking of a prison as a very confined space, but also of the confinement of being in East Berlin, of not being able to go those few feet further into West Berlin. Imagine that kind of restriction." (In: 'In Stereoscopic Vision: A dialogue between Jane & Louise Wilson and Lisa Corrin', in: 'Jane & Louise Wilson', London 1999, p. 13.)
The photograph that depicts the Interview Corridor of the Hohenschnhausen Prison is one of the most haunting of the series; in a mental space inhabited with totalitarian ghosts the time seems suspended. This hallucinatory ambience being enhanced in the original installation by the presence of a gigantic video installation and of reconstructed doors in addition to the series of still photographs.
In Interview Corridor, the absolute symmetry of the doors evokes the paranoia of George Orwell's universe as well as the refined aesthetic of Stanley Kubrick, a feeling confirmed by the twins: "the site was surrounded not only by walls or fences but also by our fears. The point is to get in there and dispel those fears by engaging with them through the work. We shouldn't avoid thinking about these places and what they signify. They are clearly part of our consciousness." (ibid. , p.11.)