where: Brunnenpassage | by Mobile Akademie Berlin

MEMORY, SPEAK!

A performance about the present and future events

Sun, 12.04.2026, 3.30 p.m. – 21:30
Memory is the accomplice of forgetting, invocation, and storytelling. It accepts no rigid boundaries between yesterday and today, happens right now, and is oriented toward the future. Damit lässt sich kein Staat machen – no state can be built on it – as the German proverb goes.
MEMORY, SPEAK! brings three different practices of remembering to the stage at Brunnenpassage in Vienna:
 
• Public casting for a long-term documentary
For a filmic long-term documentary by Anna Jermolaewa, a jury conducts interviews with 11 candidates. What will they have remembered?
 
• Kasala – a remembrance ritual for the art scene
The video by the artist duo Mukenge/Schellhammer re-enacts a traditional remembrance practice performed at family celebrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 
• Black Caribbean Radio – a forgotten genocide
How do you remember lives that have been cut out of history and yet continue to pulse stubbornly beneath it? Through sound, music, and stories, Sarah Lewis-Capellari and Anton Kats follow the traces of the 1937 Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic.
 
MEMORY, SPEAK! offers 12 hours of theatre, simultaneously over several stations within a single space. The audience can move freely and choose via headphones on different channels which narratives to follow.
 
When:  
Saturday, April 11, 3:30–6:30 pm & 7:30–10:30 pm
Sunday, April 12, 3:30–6:30 pm & 7:30–9:30 pm
Continuous admission (DE and EN with simultaneous translation)

Where: Brunnenpassage, Brunnengasse 71 / Yppenplatz, 1160 Vienna
Admission: pay as you can
Registration: anmeldung@brunnenpassage.at
 
With, among others:
Kurdwin Ayub (filmmaker); Esma Bošnjaković (Illustrator and artistic activist); Vedran Džihić (political scientist); Karin Harrasser (cultural and media scholar); Hannah Hurtzig, Marian Kaiser & Florian Stirnemann (Mobile Academy Berlin); Ilkay Idiskut (primary school teacher); Anna Jermolaewa (artist); Anton Kats (musician and artist); Sarah Lewis-Capellari (researcher and curator); Sama Maani (psychoanalyst and author); Nancy Mensah-Offei (actor); Mukenge/Schellhammer (artists); Nelly Y. Pinkrah (media scholar); Claus Philipp (dramaturge and author); Fritz Ostermayer (radio host and musician); Frida Robles (artist and curator); Maryam Vaziri Daryabegi (medical practice assistant); Peter Waterhouse (writer and translator).
 
MEMORY, SPEAK! About the Present and Future Events is a project by Science Communications Research and Mobile Academy Berlin in collaboration with the Volkskundemuseum Wien and the Brunnenpassage initiative Remembering into the Future.
 
The project is accompanied by a research project of Co.Lab Remembrance work – aesthetic-political practices / University of Art and Design Linz. Funded by Stadt Wien Kultur.
 
brunnenpassage.at
volkskundemuseum.at
research.science.co.at
mobileacademy-berlin.com
 
Stadt Wien Kultur, Call „Contemporary Forms of Remembering“ / „Zeitgemäße Formen des Erinnerns

   


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