mnḗstis; die (from ancient Greek μνήμη, mnḗmē, "Mnese" dt. "memory" / "commemoration" / "memory", cf. also amnesia and amnesty). In the neurological sense, the ability of the nervous system of living beings to encode recorded information, to store it, to relate it to other memories and to retrieve it again when the opportunity arises. In a figurative sense, the word memory is also used generally for the storage of information in other biological and technical fields.

 

Memories make us human. Remembering creates community. More and more, however, one's own past is outsourced to external hard drives, withdrawn from the body. Always available, without loss. But to which memories do we attach importance? How do we construct our past?
MNESIA is an attempt to create a performative memorial space based on the audience's memories. Neurons and synapses are trained in various participatory experimental arrangements, memories are overwritten and between neuroscientific facts, magical realism and subjective imagination, possible collective stories and what was believed to be forgotten are searched for.