LIGNA: Road without memory

The ruins of Judengasse lie beneath the pavement. High walls were once intended to make it invisible to the rest of the city, but over the centuries many curious people have been driven into the alley. The destruction of its main synagogue in the pogrom night of 1938 illustrates the violence inherent in its suppression from today's cityscape. To commemorate the Judengasse, the performance collective LIGNA creates a fleeting architecture: a voice broadcast over radios - scattered, placeless, coming from everywhere and invisible like the past. It tries to remember; fragmentary, always falling silent. It tells of people and houses, of fires and uprisings. And when it sounds like she has finally fallen completely silent, she suddenly clears her throat and starts again.

The installation took place from April 13th to 30th, 2023, as part of the festival ‘Mapping Memories—Judengasse extended’.