Berlin Wall a notable moment of the Cold War and a high point of the New Frontier. It was a great morale boost for West Berliners, who lived in an exclave deep inside East Germany and feared a possible East German occupation. In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin on 12 June 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear down the Wall as a symbol of increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc: In June 1989 the Hungarian government began dismantling the
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art me as more realistic than what we are seeing today: an outsourcing to the (post-)colonial other of the political, guilt, spiritual desire and collectivity that plague the Western-Northern self." 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art The 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, held in 2016, was curated by the collaborative project DIS and titled "The Present in Drag". The 9th Berlin Biennale proposed to explore the present moment which, according to the official press release “[...] is unknowable, unpredictable, and incomprehensible—forged by a persistent commitment to a set of fictions.” DIS chose to create a separate website for the 9th