John Miller: „Public Art and The Law of Unintended Consequences“. Invited by Elisa R. Linn as part of „Public Afterlife“

Public Afterlife - On the site of Mies van der Rohe's November Revolution Monument, erected in 1926 and destroyed nine years later by the Nazi regime, curator and scholar Elisa R. Linn invites artist Ariane Müller to speak about her work Monument für Schröderstrasse (2005) and artist John Miller to present his lecture Public Art and The Law of Unintended Consequences. Drawing on her research on counter-public spheres in the GDR and in the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Linn introduces both artists’ presentations with a reading on Sybille Bergemann’s Das Denkmal (The Monument, 1975–1986) as well as Das Gespenst verlässt Europa (The Ghost Leaves Europe, 1990) by late Heiner Müller and Sibylle Bergemann. In the following conversations, Linn and the artists discuss which political histories persist through the presence and absence of a monument, and how art reshapes the public sphere in this context.

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