Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 01:21:02 -0400
Subject: Voyage Platform Berlin report #1


>From: Wardshell-AT-aol.com
>Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:30:14 EDT
>Subject: Voyage Platform Berlin report #1

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>This is the first in an irregular series of reports letting you know about
>how we are doing with Voyage Platform Berlin.  The subject title should
>always alert you to this, and if these seem more like spam than letters, just
>push delete.  Hope you enjoy, Ward Shelley
>
>report #1
>
>I  just got back from Berlin, saw the site, found sources for materials, met
>with helpers and friends...It is all working very well.  Today I met with the
>German member of the crew, a carpenter artist with really long blonde
>dredlocks, Casper Usleber.  He doesn't want to wear the uniform, so we came
>up with a plan: that he will wear a paper suit until people from the
>neighborhood bring him things to make clothes from.  Also, we are going to
>have a post office on board to mail and post mark cards, out own stamps too.
>
>The terrain for the voyage is quite a bit more rugged than Socrates, so I
>have been redesigning the leg and strut systems.  Secret collaborator Alan
>Altman, who did the important design work for the first platform, is working
>on a pneumatic suspension system, but it may be too technically advanced for
>us to use this time.  We have, thanks to secret collaborator Mark Stole, a
>metal worker's solution to fall back on.
>
>I don't expect to return to Berlin until June 20.  Crew member David Brody
>will arrive about this time.  The platform will be assembled in much the same
>way as the first, and we'll climb aboard on July 2, following a 150 yard
>foundation ruin of the wall between Treptow and Neukoln, two neighborhoods of
>Berlin.
>
>There will be projects by other artists in the vicinity: a sound piece by
>Hildegard Skowasch, and a large wall piece by Claudia Wissmann and Harold
>Busch.  The combination of all these works is given the exhibition title:
>Zwischenfaelle.  That means "Incidents".
>




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