Berlin East-West Spatial Reenactment

Berlin East-West Spatial Reenactment image by Lynn Peemoeller

A historic reenactment of the food exchanges that took place between people living in East and West Germany “over the Berlin Wall” from 1961-1989. The project exposes the now hidden, historic relations of two vastly different yet parallel urban food systems and the different realities of food availability and thus evolving food culture as it related to East and West Germany. The project reveals a spatial food narrative for the city and exposing its historic divided past as it relates to food culture. It also creates a narrative of how people living in one divided land were connected through food. From this we can learn about scarcity and abundance in relation to past and present distressed economic food systems. Berlin Food Art Week 2015