Daydreaming the Archive is a research process of the affective cartography of the city of Frankfurt am Main, as experienced by a group of four artists-facilitators and six community participants with migration backgrounds—and an (audio-and-live performance) walking tour that resulted from this process. 

Co-created with the community participants, the walking tour featured recordings of interviews and texts written by the participants, reflecting on their memory archives in dialogue with the city's landscape. It included a narrative of childhood memories of war in Bosnia at a Frankfurt doll clinic; the conjuring of Buenos Aires through opera singing in the streets of Bornheim (one of Frankfurt’s residential neighborhoods); a performative re-enactment at Frankfurt’s main cemetery and a nearby park, retracing steps walked many times in different latitudes; and soundscapes that speak of lost, remembered or dreamed photographs from family archives. The tour moved from recorded audio juxtaposed with installations across the city, to live singing and storytelling segments—and from audience interactions with the installations, to a blindfolded, immersive sound experience of a cemetery memorial’s acoustics.