Ground Zero & Urban Sites - The Case of the Bösebrücke

Research Question


Can a Ground Zero experience happen outside of the museum? If an art installation can potentially disrupt one's ontological ground, bring awareness to their spatio-temporal situatedness, and clear the way to think anew, can we also find similar experiences in urban encounters with sites 'curated' by politics past and present?

Mila Hamp
Leiden University

Case Study: Encountering the Bösebrücke in Berlin––a former security checkpoint and a controlled passage between East and West Berlin. Image from the DDR Bildarchiv 1991, depicting the foot of the Bösebrücke, the former site of the Berlin wall.