‘Mapping Memories - All together NOW’ was the third and, for the time being, last festival as part of METAhub Frankfurt, an interdisciplinary cooperation project between the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt and the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. It connected two places whose Jewish history was forcibly displaced from today's urban space - Börneplatz and Judengasse - and invited visitors to engage with Jewish culture from multiple perspectives.
Mapping Memories - All together NOW
Review of the festival
Opening
The opening took place on the evening of 21 March 2024 - first as an internal celebration of the project participants in the historic vaulted cellar ‘Goldener Apfel’, and then in the Mousonturm.
Artistic interventions
LIGNA - Road without memory (VR)
Resurrection Games Vol. II: To paint over and to make sense
Discussion programm
Lecture: From the city centre to the ghetto outside the walls
Judengasse / Börnestraße - An der Staufenmauer - What can and should remembrance of Jewish history look like in urban spaces?
‘Whoever builds a house wants to stay’ - What role does Frankfurt play in the stories and works of Jewish artists?
From memory to the pixel cloud - talk about site-specific digital formats and interventions
Masking Memories - Purim Party with Ariel Ashbel & Friends
Almost two years after Ariel Ashbel made up for his bar mitzvah as part of METAhub, he and his friends provided the atmosphere for the project's grand finale at a Purim party in the Jewish Museum.
Every year on Purim, Jews remember their escape from an impending pogrom during the first exile in the Persian Empire. This should be celebrated! In keeping with Jewish tradition, on the last evening of the festival, we also turned the world upside down under the motto ‘Masking Memories’, with costumes, music, dance, and performances by Ariel Ashbel & Friends.
Imprint
A festival as part of METAhub Frankfurt, a cooperation project between the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt and the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. The project's digital partner is NODE Verein zur Förderung digitaler Kultur e.V.
Directors, artistic directors:
Dr. Wolfgang David
Marcus Droß, Anna Wagner
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Wenzel
Project managers:
Christina Lutz
Tanja Neumann
Marion Rossi
Curators, mediators, dramaturges:
Dr. Liane Giemsch
Katja Janitschek
Michael Lenarz
Maria Meßner
Sophie Schmidt
Sara Soussan
Sonja Thäder
Roman Zabolotnîi
Maximilian Zahn
Artists:
Ariel Ashbel and friends
Ethan Braun
Helgard Haug (Rimini Protokoll) und
Moritz von Rappard
Elischa Kaminer
LIGNA
Anna Lublina
Communication:
Korbinian Böck
Rivka Kibel
Holger Kieburg
Christoph Meyer
Gabriele Müller
Sara Nasraty
Katharina Scheuermann
Project assistance:
Robert Steiner
Communication design:
Markwald Neusitzer Identity
Programming and Design Virtual Reality:
Dr.-Ing. Marc Grellert, Architectura virtualis
Open Educational Resources:
Henning Gutfleisch
Alexander Schlepper
Sophie Schmidt
mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Fritz-Bauer-Instituts durch Martin Liepach
Technical production management:
Aleksandar Dojcinovic
METAhub Frankfurt is funded by the Kultur Digital programme of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
Unboxing Past is realised with the kind support of experimente#digital, a cultural initiative of the Aventis Foundation.
