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TALLINN WALL
LONDON WALL / TALLINN WALL / LONDON WALL (N4)
 
Tallinn Wall is the second installation in this series first commissioned in 2010 by Musueum of London. It is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a twelve kilometer radius of Kumu Museum in Tallinn, Estonia


Over a ten-day period, publicly available status updates from popular websites like twitter and facebook were selected then published as a vast array of typeset posters revealing the idle mutterings of ourselves to ourselves as a form of concrete poetry.

Tallinn wall is a clunky cottage industry, where the artists manually manufacture a collision of public electronic space with the public physical space of the museum. Tallinn Wall was commissioned for the Gateways exhibition curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and made with support from the Goethe Institute.