Project "Sichtbar Werden" ("Becoming Visible")__Audiovisual and lightchoreographic installation__Neumarkt, Leipzig, Germany 2025

When opposing a totalitarian regime, the first step is to make yourself visible. But by doing so, the peaceful protesters in Leipzig, and the rest of East-Germany in 1989, found themselves in the crosshairs of the DDR (German Democratic Republic) surveillance state. Yet, more and more people mustered the courage to step into the light, to open their window curtains, to appear in the streets - despite all threats by the government and secret police ("Stasi"). And began to light candles – which became the symbol of the peaceful revolution.

Project commissioned by Lichtfest Leipzig 2025

Lukas Taido – concept, art direction, window-performance videos, music

Emilie Dias - production manager

Linus Herterich - 1980s façade-collage, digital animations, documentation camera operator

Henning Schletter - moving lights programming

Enrico Schumann - technical management

Danny Manthei - watchtower design and projection

Mario Ils - video technician

Phil Max Schöll / Weltraumgrafik - façade vectorization

Kai Wolff - window frame prop construction

Kerstin Peekhaus - costume design

Ronny Albert - window projection foil application

David Unger - audio technician

Jan Siegmeier - additional documentation camera

Sandra Ignatzy - press

Stefan Hoenerloh - analog façade photography Leipzig and East-Berlin 1989, used as the basis for the projected digital collage

Window performers: Maxim Dadin, Ariadne Fernandez, Ivo Hautmann, Irene Hoffmann, Dieter Jaufmann, Daniel Josepeit, Masha Klimkin, Livia Krüger, Garry Lane, Emma Radnai, Franziska Ramin, Max Röhrbein, Moritz Röhrbein, Aaron Röhrbein, Benjamin Schlez, Johan Schlez, Christa Schlez-Kagelmacher, Ali Tedeschi, Caro Volkmann

Ils Medientechnik - audio / video / lighting technology

VEXS - fixed image watchtower-projectors