The memory map. A Topology of Remembrance | Jüdisches Museum Wien
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The Jewish Museum Vienna has been given a special gift, Memory Map by the artist Nikolaus Gansterer (born 1974), who lives in Vienna and Berlin. The 2 x 3 m, three-dimensional “city map” was commissioned by The Vienna Project and its director Karen Frostig. It is also a model for the Memory Map app by The Vienna Project and can be downloaded onto smartphones. Download here
Gansterer created the original with sentences cut out of scanned letters by survivors from Vienna, most of which were in US archives. This work, donated by The Memory Project and the artist Nikolaus Gansterer, is part of the new permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna “Our City! Jewish Vienna Then to Now”. It links up with the city map at the start of the exhibition on the second floor showing the three Jewish communities in Vienna before 1945. Memory Map recalls in particular the third Jewish community destroyed between 1938 and 1945, which was also the third largest Jewish community in Europe in its time.
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http://www.gansterer.org/img/projekte/memorymap/Nikolaus-Gansterer_MemoryMap-05w.jpg THE MEMORY MAP
A Topology of Remembrance
The Memory Map is creating a physical and interactive digital map to engage people in the legacy of the Holocaust on the streets of Vienna. To create the map, Viennese artist Nikolaus Gansterer has developed an intricate, sculptural representation Vienna’s urban layout based on letters of citizens of Vienna who tried to escape the town.
Nikolaus Gansterer first scanned the Archival letters coming primarily from survivor families in the US and then cut the text into strips, assembling the lines of communication into a three dimensional city map of Vienna. The fragile intimacy of the letters developed as a large-scale map delivers new insights about the massive scale of destruction to a city, a nation, and to a people. The letters, reading literally as pathways of remembrance, provide a direct testimony to the past, challenging viewers to imagine the lives of the writers who inhabited this city, abruptly expelled and deported from their homes. Through high-quality photography, Gansterer’s art piece is transformed into a dynamic and original digital map that is housed on the website of the Vienna Memorial Project. The map was developed to scale with key coordinates matching a Google map. While the ostensible purpose of the map was for the project’s smartphone app, the actual map is now an object of consideration.
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