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Team: Erik Göngrich, Berlin + Wolfram Popp, Berlin
Place: Kronprinzen Bridge
Project: Indirect City

The architect Wolfram Popp and the artist Erik Göngrich have developed their project Indirect City for the space on and around the Kronprinzen Bridge. One of the remarkable features of this location is its unique relationship of views. From the bridge, one looks south onto the Reichstag and the new government buildings of the so-called Bandes des Bundes [Federal Ribbon]. A gaze to the east meets Luisenstrasse's last remaining buildings made from prefabricated slabs. To the north, the curve of the Spree opens onto the largely undeveloped area of sand occupied by the free-standing Swiss Embassy and the last stock of trees. Beyond them is an inconspicuous, green building from the seventies containing animal testing laboratories and the Lehrter train station construction site.

Into this line and range of vision the project team will insert five large-format photographs, two black-and-white drawings, a video loop, and two bus stops with wooden decks.

The wooden decks and two benches will turn the Kronprinzen Bridge into the bus stop Indirect City. A terminal screen will show a repeating film clip that alternates between the viewer, who is waiting on a street for the next bus, and the view onto the unpopulated, undeveloped landscape.

Five steel scaffolds covered with various sized vinyl banners will be erected on the northern and southern banks of the Kronprinzen Bridge and display drawings or photographs of urban situations.

The words Indirect City are themselves an element of the project. Indirect City constitutes the space created by the textual standpoints of fourteen guests and a forum in the summer of 2003.