Publisher's Synopsis
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) is a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen, part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. It was opened in 1994 on the site of the main political prison of the former East German Communist Ministry of State Security, the Stasi.Unlike many other government and military institutions in East Germany, Hohenschönhausen prison was not stormed by demonstrators after the fall of the Berlin Wall, allowing prison authorities to destroy evidence of the prison's functions and history. Because of this, today's knowledge of the functioning of the prison comes mainly from eye-witness accounts and documents sourced from other East German institutions.The prison was depicted in the 2006 film The Lives of Others, and in 2017 TV series The Same Sky. It is a member organisation of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.Harlan Crane (°1990, Saskatoon, Canada) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a 'corporate world', his photos references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.His photos demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own 'cannibal' and 'civilized' selves. Harlan Crane currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
