WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY is:

a public artwork created for the duration AusFlugHavenSicht, part of the International Festival Theater der Welt.

a freely accessible viewing platform situated in a field at the end of the village of Kursdorf looking onto the departing and arriving plane of Leipzig/Halle’s airport.

an ephemeral structure made up of 500 blue B12089 wood CHEP pallets. CHEP is the world’s leading company in pallet pooling services, dealing with over 200 million pallets world wide everyday.

a 5m high x 7m wide x 7m deep monumental blue sculpture on which to sunbath, have a picnic, dream of travelling, admire to surroundings, talk about globalisation, argue about politics, spend the night…

a new public space that has been adopted by festival goers, plane spotters, artists, local residents, lovers, the police and others.

a contemplation platform form which you can see the WORLD airline’s passengers and cargo airplanes transporting American troops and material from the USA to Iraq and back.

Stefan Shankland 2008

WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY was realised with the support of:
CHEP Germany
(http://www.chep.com)
Le Bureau du Théatre et de la Danse, Ambassade de France, Berlin
(http://www.kultur-frankreich.de)
CulturesFrance – résidence Villa Médicis Hors les Murs
(http://www.culturesfrance.com/)
our thanks to:
Jean de Vulliod form Planetpal
(http://www.planetpal.net)

The artist would like to thank the AusFlugHafenSicht team and Erik Göngrich for their
contribution in making this work possible.

photos by Stefan Shankland, Julia Maier and Erik Göngrich