On the occasion of the action day Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns (Day of Forgetting. And Remembering), the HGB Leipzig class Artistic Action and Research presents artistic interventions in the permanent exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing as part of »Forget it?!«. The interventions examine processes of remembering and forgetting from different perspectives and engage with key themes of the permanent exhibition, including de/industrialization, hegemonic representations of history, forms of censorship, and the loss and preservation of knowledge.

The title CTRL Z / CTRL Y refers to the keyboard shortcuts »Undo« and »Redo«, which allow previously performed actions to be reversed or repeated. In the ambiguous space between these two commands, a decision is made as to what can be recovered and what is permanently deleted. Within this conceptual space, the artistic works explore the ambivalences between forgetting and remembering.

Artists: Qutiba Alchalabi, Tobias Bertz, Diren Demir, Inga Kruse, Tobias Kurpat, Tina Metschke, Alaina Nugnis, Daisam Othman, Barbora Svobodová

A collaboration between the HGB Leipzig class Artistic Practice and Research, the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library, and Leipziger WissensSpuren.

Supervised by Sven Bergelt

Photo 1: Work by Barbora Svobodová
Photo 2: Work by Tobias Bertz
Photo 3: Work by Alaina Nugnis
Photo 4: Work by Diren Demir
Photo 5: Work by Tina Metschke
Photo 6: Work by Inga Kruse