{"id":2178,"date":"2021-10-08T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:10:39","slug":"jackie-grassmann-und-ariel-reichman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/2021\/10\/08\/jackie-grassmann-und-ariel-reichman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Grassmann and Ariel Reichman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jackie Grassmann and Ariel Reichman
BECOMING GEWISH
Oktober \u2013 17. November 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The wandering Jew \u00a9 Die K\u00fcnstler_innen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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8. \u2013 31. Oktober 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition at Wedinghausen Monastery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film installation in the Propsteikirche St. Laurentius<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 8 - 10, 2021, 7 p.m. each day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture Performances im Kloster Wedinghausen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A project by Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V.<\/strong> in cooperation with the cultural office of the city of Arnsberg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

as part of the 2021 commemorative year - 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany #2021JLID \u2013 J\u00fcdisches Leben in Deutschland e.V.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it possible today to identify as both Jewish and German? What challenges, necessities, but also special creative spaces does a life in Germany - where Jewish culture and religion are still barely represented - entail for Jews? How can they cope with their own conflict with their burdened German nationality and how can they deal with it as part of the Jewish community? What potential and opportunities arise from the combination of being German and Jewish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Ariel Reichman and Jackie Grassmann confront the complexity of these questions and the heterogeneity of the answers with a method that has characterized their long-standing friendship - personal dialogue. They conduct intensive interviews with German Jews who have to (re)find their identity.
Working with individual stories counteracts stereo-typing, assertions of general validity and any semblance of closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The artistic formulation is characterized by the fragmentary and processual as well as the dialogue. At the center of BECOMING GEWISH is a lecture performance: Jackie Grassmann and Ariel Reichman will talk about their own history as well as other ways of dealing with the tension between German and Jewish identity in three evenings of exhibition talks with performative elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the exhibition, works on canvas, in which central passages from the interviews are incorporated, refer to the individual stories and concepts of identity. At the same time, they also form specific and unifying characteristics of this new Jewish identity, without repeating the usual markers of Judaism. The reassembling, re-finding of Jewish culture, religion and identity in the German context and beyond is also formulated in the floor installation, which consists of fragments of the Star of David.
The installation also includes seedlings of Tradescantia zebrina, a fast-rooting and offshoot-forming ornamental plant that is known outside Germany as the \"Wandering Jew\". Visitors can take them home with them and pass them on - into society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dialogue remains essential. BECOMING GEWISH often points out that it is not only central, but also obvious. The video work \"And it's God who loves whiskey\", which can be seen during the lecture performances in the Wedinghausen Monastery and afterwards until October 31 in the Propsteikirche St. Laurentius, takes up the motif of the mikvah, a ritual immersion bath. The new beginning, the transition, the transformation or confrontation of one's own person, which is accomplished by immersion in or washing with water, is an element shared by almost all religions and makes the existential nature of this ritual visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The artists would like to thank the following people for their trust and commitment: Alexander Green, Olaf K\u00fchnemann, Noam, Leonie Otten, Johannes van Suntum, as well as Josephine Burkart, Anneliese Ostertag, Shelley Tootell and Eliza Posny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jackie Grassmann und Ariel Reichman, And it\u2019s God who loves whiskey, 2021, Filminstallation in der Propsteikirche St. Laurentius, Arnsberg \u00a9 Jackie Grassmann\/Ariel Reichman, Foto Ariel Reichman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jackie Grassmann und Ariel Reichman, BECOMING GEWISH, 2021, Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg \u00a9 Jackie Grassmann\/Ariel Reichman, Foto Ariel Reichman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jackie Grassmann und Ariel Reichman, BECOMING GEWISH, 2021, Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg \u00a9 Jackie Grassmann\/Ariel Reichman, Foto Ariel Reichman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackie Grassmann und Ariel ReichmanBECOMING GEWISHOktober \u2013 17. November 2021 8. \u2013 31. Oktober 2021 Ausstellung im Kloster Wedinghausen Filminstallation in der Propsteikirche St. Laurentius 8. \u2013 10. Oktober 2021, jeweils 19 Uhr Lecture Performances im Kloster Wedinghausen Ein Projekt des Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Kulturb\u00fcro der Stadt Arnsberg im Rahmen des Festjahres […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}