120,000 Ribbons Hover Near The Brandenburg Gate To Mark The 30-Year Anniversary Of Its Fall
During a time when it seems like walls between individuals and nations are popping up left and right, we are also reminded of when walls were torn down and people were once again reunited.
On November 9th, Berlin celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The highlight of the celebration was Patrick Shearn’s and his Poetic Kinetics team’s colorful motion art installation comprised of 120,000 colorful fabric ribbons.
Berlin hosted an open-air art installation commemorating the Peaceful Revolution’s 30th Anniversary
Image credits: Poetic Kinetics on Instagram
Poetic Kinetics is an experiential design and fabrication team that creates immersive larger-than-life art. The group brings together a variety of disciplines to form a unique, unexpected, and unconventional creative experience. Poetic Kinetics are known for a number of gigantic installations, like Escape Velocity, Solar Sunflowers, and Caterpillar’s Longing.
Image credits: Poetic Kinetics on Instagram
Kulturprojekte Berlin approached Patrick Shearn and his team to create a moving sculpture that would symbolize the unification of the German people. The art installation titled Visions in Motion was set up in front of the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, stretching along the walkway away from it.
Visions in Motion included 120,000 colorful ribbons with messages of greetings, wishes, and hopes on them
Image credits: Poetic Kinetics on Instagram
The symbol of unity came in the form of 120,000 colorful ripstop nylon and reflective fabric streamers. A quarter of them had handwritten messages—greetings, wishes, memories, and hopes—from Germans themselves and the global community.
Image credits: Poetic Kinetics on Instagram
Around 9,500 feet of rope was used for the installation with more than 1,250 hand-tied knots. The work of art swayed majestically in the wind, creating a beautiful and immersive wave. A stronger gust brought down the wave low enough to engulf spectators and passers-by.
The vast art installation symbolizes unity of the German people
Image credits: Poetic Kinetics on Instagram
Visions in Motions was a part of a bigger event, the Berlin Festival Week, which took place on November 4th through the 10th. Visitors were able to participate in a variety of events, activities, and exhibitions spread across a number of historical locations to commemorate and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Poetic Kinetic also released a video for the Visions in Motion moving art installation
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This is a fitting way to remember it. For thsoe who weren't around then --- you['ve no idea what it meant to see that wall be taken down. And I pray you never have to find out, b'c that'd maen more walls had been built.
There already are a few "walls" to be crushed in the world. Who knows if I'll be alive to witness the fall of the "wall" between the two Koreas.
Load More Replies...It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since the wall came down. I remember watching it on TV. I can remember thinking things where going to be getting better in the world, wish it was true.
Really beautiful and touching - would love to be able to see this in person.
As an American I lived in East Berlin for 2 years between 1979 and 1981. This headline is wrong. This is not where the wall was. This is on the street leading up to the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin. It is on Unter den Linden.
It actually is where part of the wall was. Just the other site of the Brandurg Gate. You can see the Television Tower in the back on the left of the photo. If you are at Unter den Linden looking toward the Brandurg Gate, the Television tower would be behind you.
Load More Replies...There are way too many walls on our planet that only serve to divide us as a species.
"of its fall"? Fall of the Brandenburg Gate? Is it just a typo or the writter is drunk?
Beautiful and moving! I grew up in the cold war with bomb drills in elementary school. I was stunned when the wall came down. Never thought it would ever happen. So glad!
Pretty though it is, I wonder what becomes of all that when it is taken down.
Load More Replies...wow. i have never heard someone so uncultured in my life.
Load More Replies...This is a fitting way to remember it. For thsoe who weren't around then --- you['ve no idea what it meant to see that wall be taken down. And I pray you never have to find out, b'c that'd maen more walls had been built.
There already are a few "walls" to be crushed in the world. Who knows if I'll be alive to witness the fall of the "wall" between the two Koreas.
Load More Replies...It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since the wall came down. I remember watching it on TV. I can remember thinking things where going to be getting better in the world, wish it was true.
Really beautiful and touching - would love to be able to see this in person.
As an American I lived in East Berlin for 2 years between 1979 and 1981. This headline is wrong. This is not where the wall was. This is on the street leading up to the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin. It is on Unter den Linden.
It actually is where part of the wall was. Just the other site of the Brandurg Gate. You can see the Television Tower in the back on the left of the photo. If you are at Unter den Linden looking toward the Brandurg Gate, the Television tower would be behind you.
Load More Replies...There are way too many walls on our planet that only serve to divide us as a species.
"of its fall"? Fall of the Brandenburg Gate? Is it just a typo or the writter is drunk?
Beautiful and moving! I grew up in the cold war with bomb drills in elementary school. I was stunned when the wall came down. Never thought it would ever happen. So glad!
Pretty though it is, I wonder what becomes of all that when it is taken down.
Load More Replies...wow. i have never heard someone so uncultured in my life.
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