The text by Asif A. Siddiqi (professor of history at Fordham
University, New York) explores a mysterious series of 1958
photographs showing villagers gathered around a handmade rocket
constructed by Mueller Robinson’s grandfather in their backyard,
staging an imaginative journey to the moon.
German sociologist Matthias Quent (professor of Digitalization
and Societal Transformation at Ernst Abbe University, Jena)
examines the persistent political, social and demographic
inequalities in eastern Germany and the consequences these have
for political mentalities and regional identity formation.
Dana Mueller Robinson grew up in Thuringia, East Germany, until
the fall of the Wall. Working primarily in photography, her practice
engages the complex nature of the image as representation,
interpretation and speculation.
