Echoes of the Unwritten

In “Echoes of the Unwritten”, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main and the artist Vanessa Amoah Opoku team up to explore new forms of remembering, social participation and emancipation. Together with an interdisciplinary team of historians, authors and urban researchers, they use AI technologies as both a poetic tool and an instrument that reveals power structures, contradictions and gaps. Based on research into the emancipatory texts of Jewish writers of the 19th century, the project invites contemporary authors to produce texts of their own that engage in dialogue with this literary heritage. This will result in speculative texts and literary characters that AI models will then be trained on and performatively embody. The artistic team is developing a mixed-reality installation for the stage, in which texts, memory, space and body interrelate and set the audience in motion together with the performers. In an age where technological developments have resulted in growing social exclusion, this artistic working method encourages solidarity to form between Jewish, post-migrant and other marginalised positions. The world premiere is scheduled to take place in April 2027 as part of a festival at the Mousonturm in Frankfurt. The artistic work will also be integrated into the digital application “Immersive Jewish Frankfurt”.