Ghosttram
Looking back on a moving German-Polish history, the Upper Silesian region around Katowice is one of today’s flourishing Polish economic metropolises. Years of shifting borders, occupations, expulsions, settlements, and evacuations shaped its identity. The tramnetwork of Katowice and its surrounding cities, dating back to 1894, now belongs to one of the largest transit systems in the world. In cooperation with the Katowice Cultural Institute “City of Gardens” a historic tram from the 1980s was brightly illuminated and sent out on a nighttime journey, without passengers, scheduled service, stops or a destination. In the darkness of night the “ghost train” seemed to be on its way to “nowhere” like a glistening white cube, set free from its original function, history, and materiality, without background and without destination, without identity. (JO)
Press
- Preece, Robert, "Ghosttram: From Concept to on the Track", in: sculpture.org, 01.03.2017.
- mah, „Tramwaj widmno jeździł po Śląsku“, in: fakt24.pl, 11.03.2013.
- ADC staff, „Mischa Kuball’s Ghost Tram in Katowice“, in: artdesigncafé – art, 11.03.2013.
- Tramwaje Śląskie, „Katowice: ostatni dzień tramwaju widmo“, in: Kurier Kolejowy, 11.03.2013.
- Katowice – Miasto Ogrodow, „Tramwaj-widmo rozświetli nocny Śląsk“in: Kurier Kolejowy, 09.03.2013.
- Bulkowska, Aneta, „Ghost Tram“, in: reflektor, 08.03.2013.
- pam, „Po Chorzowie jeździ tramwaj widmo“, in: Chorzowianin.pl, 08.03.2013.
- pj, „Tramwaj widmo jeździ po Katowicach“, in: wyborcza katowice, 07.08.2013.
- lota, „Katowice: Tramwaj widmo donikąd wyjechał na tory aglomeracji“, in: Dziennik Zachodni, 07.03.2013.