Artists Statement

Erfurt – a city in the former German Democratic Republic is the focus of this cross-disciplinary collaborative, visual arts project that sets out to collect visual evidence of a decade of Stasi surveillance methods by documenting the 500 conspiratorial meeting places that were found in a copy of a lost file at the Central Archive for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democatic Republic, Berlin.

• Art Detective is a cross-disciplinary group comprising on artists, Pam Skelton, England, and Tina Clausmeyer, Netherlands, environmental health researcher Achim Heinrich, Germany and sociologist and historian Heinz Mestrup, Germany, that sets out to discover what has become of the Stasi meeting places known as KW’s.

Full text (PDF) p. 182-186