Programm: Mapping Memories - All together NOW
21. - 24.03.2024 in Frankfurt
"Mapping Memories - All together NOW" is the third and, for now, final festival within the framework of METAhub Frankfurt, an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt with the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt and the artists' house Mousonturm. It connects two places whose Jewish history has been violently displaced from today's urban space – Börneplatz and Judengasse – and invites a multi-perspective engagement with Jewish culture.
Mapping Memories
For four years, as part of METAhub Frankfurt, museum curators, documentarians, and dramaturgs have collaborated with media artists to explore the material traces of Börneplatz and Judengasse and their Jewish history in various media. The three-and-a-half-day festival "Mapping Memories - All together NOW" now presents the results of this in-depth engagement. It includes a multimedia exhibition, a VR and sound installation, a digital lab, performances, city walks, and panel discussions that connect history with the present and open up new perspectives on familiar places. At the heart of the festival, however, is a new location: the Golden Apple at Staufenmauer 11.
Presence of Judengasse in the urban space
Last year, the culture of remembrance of Frankfurt's Jewish history was expanded by a significant new location: The Mapping Memories Festival brought public awareness to the neglected street at Staufenmauer, whose course corresponds to that of Judengasse. For the first time, a historical vaulted cellar, constructed in 1809 under the house at Judengasse 18, was made accessible to the public. Meanwhile, the city of Frankfurt has decided to lease it and redesign the neglected urban space at the location where the main synagogue once stood. As part of the "Mapping Memories – All together NOW" festival, both are now being inaugurated: the Golden Apple as well as the redesigned passage commemorating the main synagogue. In the Golden Apple, a pop-up presentation of the diverse project results from METAhub and a VR installation can be seen - as well as the first approaches of the emerging exhibition that will be shown here in the future. It makes the historical site a living testimony of Frankfurt's Jewish history and invites visitors to become part of an ongoing narrative.
Experimental, artistic engagements at the Judengasse Museum
During the festival, the exhibition "Masel and Broche" at the Judengasse Museum features Ethan Braun's sound installation "TSTCHM," which alludes to the song "Shalom Aleichem." A pop-up exhibition with archaeological finds in the entrance area expands the sensory and experimental engagement with Jewish history on site. A particular focus is the artistic engagement with museum data within the framework of a Creative Coding Lab, the results of which are presented in Studio Aleph and provide new impulses. City walks offer the opportunity to learn more about the Jewish history of the former Judengasse and the adjacent areas – as well as about their displacement from the urban space.
Finissage with Purim Party
To celebrate the conclusion of the festival, we invite you to a Purim Party at the Jewish Museum. True to Jewish tradition, the world will be turned upside down on our last evening: with costumes, music, dance, and performances by Ariel Ashbel & Friends.
Events
Admission to all special events is free. However, capacity is limited. We kindly request registration.
March 21th, 9 PM - The Secret Salon with Ryskinder and DJ SK Libra
March 22th, 12 PM - City walk following the traces of the Jewish ghetto (in German)
March 22th, 12 PM - City walk following the traces of the Jewish ghetto with Michael Lenarz (in German)
March 22th, 3 PM - Mapping Offenbach Lab (in german)
March 22th, 5 PM - Lecture and walk with Dr. Wolfgang David (in German)
March 22th, 7 PM - Panel discussion on the area at the Staufenmauer (German & English)
March 23th, 12 PM - City walk following the traces of the Jewish ghetto (in German)
March 23th, 2 PM - City walk in the footsteps of the Jewish Ghetto with Katja Janitschek (in German)
March 23th, 3 PM - Mapping Offenbach Lab (in German)
March 23th, 8:30 PM - Music theater by Elischa Kaminer
March 24th, 11 AM - Workshop for children (in German)
March 24th, 12 PM - City walk on the traces of the Jewish ghetto (in German)
March 24th, 12 PM - Concert by Elisha Kaminer and Alex Paxton
March 24th, 1 PM - Panel discussion on Frankfurt's role in the stories and works of Jewish artists (in German)
GPT March 24th, 2 PM - City walk following the traces of the Jewish ghetto (in German)
March 24th, 3 PM - Discussion about location-based digital formats (in German)
March 24th, 5:30 PM - Lecture performance with Anna Lublina (in German)
