The sculptor and object artist Liam Gillick (b. Aylesbury, UK, 1964; lives and works in New York) has created an intervention titled Filtered Time for the historic galleries of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Projections of light and color and acoustic effects condense six thousand years of cultural history into an immersive spatial experience. Gillick initiates a conversation between the iconic Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate from Babylon, the monumental sculptures of Tell Halaf, and other exhibits, engendering new layers of meaning across all historical periods. The first joint project of the Vorderasiatisches Museum and the Hamburger Bahnhof— Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart makes for a singular visual and sensory experience. Designed by the artist himself, the publication not only documents the richly colorful production, but also provides insight into the eventful history of the museum, which is approaching its centennial. Liam Gillick studied at the Hertfordshire College of Art in 1983– 1984 and at Goldsmiths, University of London from 1984 until 1987. Gillick is a prolific published writer as well, producing essays, reviews, fiction, and theatrical scenarios.

Director (Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart), Berlin and Curator, living in Berlin. Barbara Helwing studied prehistory and early history, Near Eastern archaeology and ethnology at the University of Heidelberg. Following teaching and monument office excavations in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Wü rttemberg and Austria as well as excavations and processing campaigns of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Tiryns, she has participated in excavations of the Heidelberg Institute in Lidar Hö yü k and Nevali Ç ori every year since 1987. In 1991, she completed her studies with a master's thesis on the pottery from the Early Bronze Age cemeteries of Titris, SE Turkey.