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Yoko's Freight Train
Sources: (Entered August 18, 2000) A new installation by Yoko Ono will have its the world premiere in Berlin, Germany on August 25th 2000. Freight Train is located at the famous square Schloßplatz Berlin Mitte. It is a wooden freight train car with closed doors, perforated by innumerable bullet holes. Inside the freight train car are strong sources of light, and white light beams shine through the bullet holes in all directions. It is a very symbolic work, and it is based on a real occurence of human brutality which involved a group of Mexican workers trying to arrive illegally into the USA some years ago. For Yoko Ono Freight Train is "a work of atonement for the injustice and pain we've experienced in this century, expressing resistance, healing and hope." The installation is not only a memorial for all the injustice in the 20th century, but also a manifest of resistance, healing and hope for the future. The installation will travel from Berlin to Detroit (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Mexico City (Mexico). Freight Train: Yoko Ono in Berlin August 25th - October 1st 2000 The installation has been realized by Stiftung Starke and Fine Art Rafael Vostell. IK! will definitely try to make it to the exhibit when it comes to Detroit.
"A cruel story" - Yoko Ono Reported for AP by Holger Mehlig (Some sections translated by automated Alta Vista Babelfish; with additional comments by IK!)
Note: A friend of IK!'s in Germany has promised to send items from this event, Saying that a visit to Berlin always "energizes" her, Yoko was on hand for the installation of "Freight Train" - a symbolic reminder of a tragic event in the mid-80's when several Mexican workers attempting to enter the United States illegally, were left locked in the back of a truck somewhere in the desert, abandoned there by the driver. The men suffered an agonizing death of suffocation. Although Yoko's train car depicts a different type of violence - it is riddled with bullet holes which allow light to shine through - the object is to show "a cruel story" from the 20th Century. Yoko is hopeful that the 21st Century will bring better times to humanity - which is and has been a constant theme in her music and art. Asked why she brought the exhibit to Germany (the car may remind some of the cars used to transport Jewish citizens to death camps during the Holocaust of World War II), Yoko's response was simple and obvious: "I like Berlin, and the city said okay to the work of art." Yoko says the bullet-riddled freight car is a symbol for violence which can be shown anywhere in the world. The "Freight Train" exhibit will be in Berlin through October 1. It then will continue to roll, possibly to Liverpool, England, Vienna or New York. One destination IK! is interested in is Detroit, Michigan - and the exhibit may also travel to Mexico. The Installation is part of the 6th Annual Long Night of Museums August 26 which features more than 100 museums showing works including concerts, readings and in a separate exhibit, is Yoko's Telephone Piece at Stiftung Starke. During this event, once a day, the phone will ring and whoever is in proximity of the phone can pick it up and talk to...Yoko! Okay people..stop hovering around that telephone.... Museum: Lange Nacht der Museen
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