Alter Bahnhof Video Walk

The Alter Bahnhof Video Walk was designed for the old train station in Kassel, Germany as part of dOCUMENTA by Cardiff and Miller. The artists let the participants experience an alternate world where reality meets fiction by using an iPod and headphones. This project is referred to ‘physical cinema’ and plays in a simple way with augmented reality. The participants watch things unfold on the small screen but feel the presence of those events deeply because of being situated in the exact location where the footage was shot. As they follow the moving images (and try to frame them as if they were the camera operator) a strange confusion of realities occurs. In this confusion, the past and present conflate and Cardiff and Miller guide us through a meditation on memory.