Image Liminal Institute, Amsterdam

Recreating The Berlin Wall is a project by performance artist and co-founder of the Liminal Institute, an international performance unit in Amsterdam, Martin Butler.
The artist aims to orchestrate a ‘Flash mob’, organized through the social networking sites ‘Facebook’, ‘Myspace’ and ‘Twitter’, that will recreate the Berlin wall with the physical presence of people. The initiative requires approximately 47,000 people to gather together in Berlin on November 9 2009 at 20:00 along the 46km route of the original wall for 30 minutes. Martin’s endeavour, aside from commemorating the 20th anniversary of the wall’s collapse, is to create ‘a temporary monument for reflection’ a moment for collective recollection that stimulates reflection on divisions, democracy, individual responsibility and political sovereignty.
Divided into groups, participants will position themselves in different areas of the wall at the same time on November 9, the various groups then join up to form in a single row along the entire length of the wall, thus rebuilding the Berlin wall with people, the groups will disperse at 20:30.
For more information and to adhere to the group join the Recreation of the Berlin Wall group on Facebook
Some walls that have been erected in the world since the collapse of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago:
The Mexico – United States barrier, the Israeli West Bank barrier, Saudi Arabia – Yemen Border, the India – Pakistan wall, the Botswana – Zimbabwe fence, the Egypt – Gaza wall.