Mobile Ruin

Blake Fitzpatrick (Editor) Blake Fitzpatrick is professor emeritus in the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, and co-editor of Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image.Vid Ingelevics (Editor) Vid Ingelevics is professor emeritus, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University, and a visual artist, writer, and independent curator.

• PART 1 The Mobile RuinPhotographs and EssaysNorth America and Berlin 3Foreword 9Doina PopescuArlington, VA, and Washington, DC 14Introduction: The Mobile Ruin 21Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid IngelevicsCalifornia and Texas 431 The Iron Curtain and the Concrete Wall: Reading Berlin Wall. Truro, Nova Scotia. 59Robert BeanNova Scotia, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut 722 Fragments of Berlin (Notes on the Retrieval of the Scattered Remnants of the Berlin Wall) 87Jonathan BordoTouching the Wall, Berlin 100Berlin 1023 A Monument in Motion 121Jayne WilkinsonTexas, and Texas/Tijuana Border 1274 Epilogue 133Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid IngelevicsPART 2 The Souvenir ProducersInterviews by Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid IngelevicsIntroduction: The Souvenir Producers 145Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid Ingelevics1 Joe Sciamarelli (New Jersey) 1532 Michael Mammitzsch (Bern) 1583 Heidi Buehler (Berlin) 1634 Thierry Noir (Los Angeles and Berlin) 1675 Johannes Peter (Berlin) 1756 Alwin Nachtweh (Berlin) 1807 Patrice Lux (Berlin) 1848 Axel Klausmeier (Berlin) 1899 Marc Bauder (Toronto) 195Acknowledgments 201Contributors 203

“Beautifully written and intelligently photographed, The Mobile Ruin poses timely questions, tracing a North American obsession with the symbolism of the fall of Berlin Wall, the current trend to solidify and securitize borders around the world, and the paradoxical fetishism of freedom embodied in the wall’s relics.” - Lee Rodney, University of Windsor “The Mobile Ruin transforms documentary into discovery. Part field guide, part elegy, part provocation, this book is a sharp, beautifully argued meditation on memory in motion. Fitzpatrick and Ingelevics show us that the Berlin Wall never stopped falling.” - Justin Jampol, Wende Museum