Memories of Memories

The Oradour camp

Ferdinandeum

Ferdinandeum
8.9.2023 - 5.11.2023
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What remains of the story? Who remembers what? And how? How can, should, do we want to deal with the gaps in history?

The "Memories of Memories" project reflects on the power of memories, both collective and individual. The focus is on the Oradour camp in Schwaz and its history from National Socialism and war to the present day. What has remained of it? Because a history of memory is always also a history of forgetting and so "Memories of Memories" also searches for what seems lost and scrutinises the attempt to make the forgotten or repressed visible again.

Die komplexe Stahlkonstruktion wurde von Institut für Gestaltung, i.sd – Konstruktion und Gestaltung der Universität Innsbruck gemeinsamen mit Studierenden entworfen.

The installation in front of the Ferdinandeum

"Memories of Memories" is a cooperation project between the Tyrolean State Museums and numerous cultural institutions in Schwaz(Klangspuren, Rabalderhaus, Museum der Völker, Kunstraum Schwaz, Toni-Knapp-Haus, Schwaz City Archive) as well as the Institute of Design, i.sd - Construction and Design at the University of Innsbruck, the Tyrolean State Theatre and the Klocker Museum Hall. Together we have developed a varied programme with exhibitions and concerts, readings and talks, guided tours and performances.

We look forward to welcoming you to our events.

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Tyrolean State Museums

MEMORIES OF MEMORIES

© Maria Kirchner

Arno Gisinger
The Oradour camp / Installation in front of the Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck / 8.9. - 5.11.2023
The installation in front of the Ferdinandeum explores the memory of the former Oradour camp in Schwaz.
The focus is on photographic and film works by Arno Gisinger and Christine Ljubanovic, which can be seen both in Innsbruck and in Schwaz. We are also showing historical photographs by French photographer Gaston Paris for the first time.
The meeting point for all events in the installation and the excursion is at the ticket office in the Ferdinandeum.
Photos: Installation in front of the Ferdinandeum, © Maria Kirchner; Arno Gisinger, From the series "Travelling", 2022, © Arno Gisinger

i.sd & Tiroler Landestheater

ARCHITECTURE AND THEATRE
Installation in front of the Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Central to the installation in front of the Ferdinandeum is the architecture, which was designed and realised by the Institute of Design, i.sd - Construction and Design at the University of Innsbruck together with students. A walk-in location has been created in the urban space that enables direct engagement with "Memories of Memories". The Tiroler Landestheater will perform the installation and tie in with the stage version of "Cafe Schindler" by Meriel Schindler.
The meeting point for all events in the installation is at the ticket office in the Ferdinandeum.
DATES
WED 27/9/2023, 5 pm / Guided tour of the installation with Rupert Maleczek (Uibk)
THUR 12.10.2023, 4 pm / Reading "Café Schindler: Memories of Memories", actors from the Tiroler Landestheater dedicate themselves to Meriel Schindler's biographical story and the memories associated with it.
The dramatisation of "Café Schindler" can be seen from 6.4.2024 in the main theatre of the Tiroler Landestheater.
Tue 24 Oct 2023, 4 pm / Guided tour of the installation with Rupert Assanger (Uibk) and Maximilian Wacker (Uibk)

Rabalderhaus Schwaz

MEMORIES OF MEMORIES
Oradour - Gisinger - Ljubanovic / Exhibition at the Rabalderhaus, Schwaz / 8 September - 29 October 2023
In this joint exhibition, artist Christine Ljubanovic and photographer Arno Gisinger explore the afterlife of images: In the video installation "Wire Mesh", Ljubanovic traces early childhood memories and questions their relevance for later artistic work. Gisinger reactivates his photographic ensembles "Oradour-sur-Glane" and "Messerschmitthalle" from 1995 in a newly conceived project for the Rabalderhaus.
DATES
FR 8.9.2023, 7 pm / Opening of the exhibition
FR 15.9.2023, 7 pm /Lecture "... the gruesome and shameful image of what was still reality yesterday" by Gisela Hormayr on the anti-fascist exhibition "Never forget!" in Innsbruck in August 1947
DO 21.9.2023, 7 pm / Reading & discussion with Christoph W. Bauer and Horst Schreiber
SO 24.9.2023, 5 pm / Guided tour of the exhibition
TU 5 October 2023, 7 pm /Talk with curator Michaela Feurstein-Prasser and Karin Pernegger
SO 15.10.2023, 5 pm /Guided tour of the exhibition
SO 29.10.2023, 5 pm /Guided tour of the exhibition

Museum of the Peoples

GREGOR SAILER - THE BOX
Exhibition at the Museum der Völker, Schwaz / 9.9.2023 - 28.1.2024
In the exhibition "The Box" at the Museum der Völker, photographic works by Gregor Sailer are shown and re-contextualised. The exhibition will be accompanied by extensive educational programmes in collaboration with the Schwaz City Archive and the Toni-Knapp-Haus.
DATES
SA 9.9.2023 , 10 am / Opening of the exhibition, artist talk with Arno Gisinger and Gregor Sailer, moderation: Ivona Jelcic
MON13.9.2023, 7 pm / Book presentation "The camps of Schwaz 1944 - 1988. Nazi forced labour camp - denazification camp - St. Margarethen refugee camp - Märzensiedlung poor camp" by Horst Schreiber at Mathoi-Haus, Schwaz
SA 16.9.2023 & SA 7.10.2023, 9 - 11.30 am / Sit down - Talk about Oradour: At Maximilianplatz / Stadtplatz Schwaz you can take a seat and talk to mediators* from museums and ERINNERN:AT.
FR 13.10.2023, 7 pm / Opening of the photo exhibition "Weg finden - Weg gehen" by Leonie-Hannah Huber, a historical geoinformation system by Barbara Pöll, music by pupils and keynote speech by Horst Schreiber in the Toni-Knapp-Haus
City walks / city tours to the "invisible camps" of the city of Schwaz, dates at museumdervoelker.com
Rent a Historian / History in private: Invite a historian to a discussion round with friends.
Register and make an appointment at museumdervoelker.com

Schwaz Art Space

GESTURES OF ARCHIVING
Exhibition at the Kunstraum Schwaz / 7.10.2023 - 27.1.2024
The exhibition "gestures of archiving" scrutinises various structures and the artistic gestures of archiving - from diary entries to state archives and their socially relevant significance.
DATES
FR 6.10.2023, 7 pm / Opening of the exhibition
MI 18.10.2023, 7 pm / Artist Talk "From Dust to Cloud" about a collaborative project by students of the Mozarteum Innsbruck
SA 4.11.2023, 10.30 am / Artist Talk with artist Esther Strauß
SA 11.11.2023, 2 pm Guided tour through the exhibition and to the site of the former Nazi forced labour camp in Schwaz with director Nadja Ayoub. With registration until 10 November 2023 at office@kunstraum-schwaz.at
MI 15.11.2023, 7 pm / Film "remember me" in cooperation with the IFFI
SA 13.1.2024, 11 am / Film "Home is a space made of time"
MI 24.1.2024, 7 pm / Lecture "Yenish life in Schwaz: passing on, collecting, preserving history(ies)", in cooperation with the Yenish Archive

Soundtracks Schwaz

Concerts in Innsbruck and Schw az
"Memories of Memories" began with a project initiated by Klangspuren in 1995. In 2023, 28 years later, the Klangspuren are still a central component of the collaboration. Two concerts will be presented in the context of the collaboration and respond musically to the theme of disappearing memories.
DATES
TU 7.9.2023, 8 pm / Anniversary concert in the Silbersaal at SZentrum Schwaz, bus shuttle at 7 pm from Congress Innsbruck and back. With registration at
tickets@klangspuren.at
SO 10.9.2023, 11 am / concert "Wie es war" music by Peter Zwetkoff, Werner Pirchner and Bert Breit, with the Tyrolean Ensemble for New Music at the Ferdinandeum
SO 17.9.2023, 10 am / Sound hike around the Vomper Loch. Sound stations and readings with the attensam quartet and Harald Windisch, among others, await you along the way. The programme includes works by the composer Friedrich Cerha, who hid in Vomper Loch as a deserter during the Second World War. Bus transfer to the Hinterhornalm from Innsbruck and Schwaz and back. Registration at tickets@klangspuren.at or T +43 660 201 61 69

Klocker Museum

Christine Ljubanovic - FPMS / CPPS*
Exhibition at the Klocker Museum, Hall / until 5 November 2023
The series "Colours / Pigments / Patterns / Scales" (FPMS for short) is the focus of the exhibition by Christine Ljubanovic, this year's winner of the Klocker Foundation. Ljubanovic has been travelling the world for 20 years in search of the origin and use of a wide variety of colours and (traditional) patterns. In addition to these works, excerpts from the artist's photographic oeuvre will also be presented.
DO 14.9.2023, 18.30 hrs / Artist Talk:
Artist Christine Ljubanovic in conversation with Robert Fleck, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf
DO 28.9.2023, 5 pm / Artperitif: short guided tour through the exhibition with a glass of Prosecco
*Colours / Pigments / Patterns / Scales - Colours / Pigments / Patterns / Scales

Stand dates: 22.9.2023

Podcast

MUSEUMSGEFLÜSTER: About memory and forgetting

The artist Christine Ljubanovic experienced the Oradour camp as a child and talks in this episode of our museum podcast about forgetting, memory and what we can learn from that time today.

KulturTon - the culture and education channel on FREIRAD:

A radio programme by Michael Klieber on the exhibition "Memories of Memories. The Oradour Camp".

A conversation with the head of the library of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum Roland Sila, who is cooperating with numerous cultural institutions in Schwaz for this project and bringing a piece of the culture of remembrance to Innsbruck in front of the Ferdinandeum.

Click on the picture to listen to the podcast on cba.fro.at:

KulturTon - der Kultur und Bildungskanal auf FREIRAD: „Memories of Memories" — cba

Co-operation partner

Museum Rabalderhaus Schwaz
Traces of Sound Schwaz
Institute of Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck
Museum of the Nations, Schwaz
Art Space Schwaz
Tyrolean Regional Theatre

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