» I Beg You My Friend. Litlosh Temunah

Shulamit Bruckstein / a.k.a. House of Taswir
I Beg You My Friend. Litlosh Temunah. A Mnemosyne Atlas & Lecture Performance on the Abyss of Images

For Michal Sapir.

Friday, September 1, 2023, 12 pm
St. Matthäus, Kulturforum, Berlin

A literary montage with images and text fragments by

Paul Celan, Salomon Ben Simson, Salmen Gradowski, Alberto Errera, Georges Didi-Huberman, Louis Marin, Michal Sapir, Christina von Braun, Samuel Beckett, Hélène Cixous, Vassily Kandinsky, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Jeu de paume Paris, Walter Benjamin, Doris von Drathen, Gerhard Richter, Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Mishna/Pirke Avot, Orhan Pamuk, Benjamin Buchloh, Mahmoud Darwish, Rolf Nemitz, Jacques Lacan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Michael Meyer zum Wischen, Aby Warburg, Clemens Ruthner, Chumash/Devarim, Ilana Kurshan, Wilhelm Gesenius, Marcus Jastrow, Shlomo HaLevi Alkabez, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Masekhet Berakhot/Talmud Bavli

compiled by Ana Sontag.

At the Occasion of the symposium “Am Abrund der Bilder” convened by Hannes Lanbein, August 31 – September 1, 2023

With participants Benjamin Buchloh, Gideon Greif, Thomas Macho, Hubertus v. Amelunxen, A.S. Bruckstein, Lukas Töpfer, u.a.

The text version of this literary montage is still unpublished. Visitors may see all fragment of the performed text mirrored in the labyrinth of the atlas.

Enter the Atlas here.

Wer auf dem Kopf geht

Ana Sontag / House of Taswir

I Beg You My Friend Mnemosyne Atlas / Lecture Performance St. Matthäus, September 1, 2023

I Beg You My Friend. Litlosh Temunah. Enter the Atlas here.

The Taswir atlas. shown first in the Taswir exhibition at Gropius Bau 2009-2010, is an encyclopedic, fractal, architectural topography which may also emerge as an artistic installation in an exhibition framework.

A Taswir atlas allows an open number of artifacts, objects, texts to enter into variable, unpredictable, and dynamic relations with each other.

A Taswir atlas simulates the ‘displacement of the display walls’, the gesture by which art historian Aby Warburg in his pictorial Mnemosyne atlas kept extending, relocating and regrouping his books, pictures and images in the Library of Cultural Sciences in Hamburg

Like in the architectures of a medieval literary page, and just as in Freud’s reading of dreams, the Taswir atlas creates fleeting spatial and temporal associations, ruled by latent, subcutaneous, but precise semantic and visual correlations.

The associative clusters operate by poesiis, a method also used in psychoanalysis and in the literary montage: Displacements, dissociations, inversions of meaning, returns of the repressed, etc.

The Taswir Atlas is a project of House of Taswir.

For more information please contact A.S. Bruckstein at [email protected]