After the first public casting took place at the Berlin Academy of Arts the Mobile Academy Berlin presents their performative proposal for a contemporary memory culture in Vienna. MEMORY, SPEAK! brings four different practices of remembering to the stage in the Brunnenpassage at Yppenplatz:

• Public casting for a long-term documentary

For a filmic long-term documentary by Anna Jermolaeva, a jury conducts biographical interviews with 11 candidates whose stories usually have no place in national memory discourses. What will they have remembered?

• Kasala Kontinuum – a remembrance ritual for the art scene

The video by the artist duo Mukenge/Schellhammer, in collaboration with Kasala reciter Cécile Tuseku, re-enacts a traditional remembrance practice from the Kasaï region that is still performed at family events in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Black Caribbean Radio – Memory Techniques for Approximating Ghosted Realities

How do you remember lives that have been cut from history and yet continue to pulse beneath it, stubborn and resistant? Through sound, music, and stories, Sarah Lewis-Cappellari and Anton Kats follow the traces of the 1937 Parsley Massacre, a forgotten genocide 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.

• Niemandes Gedächtnis (Nobody’s Memory)