or jenny holzer. this tower in muenster, germany, was used as a prison for torture in medieval times and again during world war ii. for the european artist, it is very important-- the dialogue between past and present, history and our time. rebekorn is using an abandoned building, not for romantic reason, but because it is a building that has a memory of the torture and includes in the space the sound of torture-- water dripping, hammers striking-- so that the silence of history is broken. human beings once cried out in this cell. this tower has a kind of strange life because it is full of these phantoms-- torture in the middle ages and again during world war ii by nazis. this building has this kind of strange life because it's full of these phantoms. the installation is temporary, to last for just six months, so there's a dialectical condition of the piece-- that to relate the history of germany to germany today. that to relate the hiour works of art appear to have become ruins. only our perception i