Vessel of Change

Vessel of Change is a video installation by artist and filmmaker Bill Ferehawk, who also edited the Wende Museum documentary Collecting Fragments, and multimedia designer David Hartwell. Ferehawk and Hartwell’s video, developed for the Wende Museum, playfully reinterprets the Malta Summit of December 1989 between Presidents George Bush Sr. and Mikhail Gorbachev which symbolically sealed the end of the Cold War. The summit took place on a ship in wild waters in front of the harbor of Marsaxlokk. In this case, the museum becomes the ship that metaphorically anchors the end of the Cold War in Los Angeles.