Colonialism, space, post-racist future: Simone Dede Ayivi’s performance in Berlin’s Sopiehensälen tells at the same time about today, about the past and about another tomorrow, because: “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travels”.
Browsing: Historiography
The campaign was initiated in 2016 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London by students and faculty.
This interview by Annie Goh with Alexander G. Weheliye is subtitled “Untuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno” and asks questions about the genesis of the history of the Berlin techno scene in the 1990s and its (claimed) heterogeneity.
This independent online portal focuses on the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The explicit goal here is to produce reporting that reflects a broad spectrum of opinions and thus takes on perspectives that are rarely if ever represented by large Western media companies.
The series of talks curated by Grada Kilomba invited refugee artists to the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin between 2015 and 2017. The focus of the 13 talks was the question of how systems of knowledge and representation can be artistically and politically transformed, de-colonized, rewritten.
In her autobiographically influenced comic, Marjane Satrapi tells of growing up during the so-called “Islamic Revolution” in Iran in the late 1970s, the Iran-Iraq War, and her early exile in the diaspora in Vienna.
Art Spiegelman tells the story of Auschwitz survivor Wladek in his graphic novel. The character is based on Spiegelmann’s father, and the narrative setting – the father telling his son about the Holocaust and his memories of it – also bears strong autobiographical traits.
The alliance consists of political activists, scientists and representatives of various civil society initiatives.
In this English-language video, central theories of the literary scholar Edward Said on colonial foreign representation of the so-called “Orient” by the “West” (“Orientalism”) are explained and compared with today’s forms of cultural representation and media reporting.
In her 1966 song “My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying,” Canadian-born musician, visual artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie addresses the colonization of the Americas, the mass killings, expulsions, and disenfranchisement of indigenous people that accompanied it, and the centuries-long denial of these acts.
The initiative was founded in 2015 and advocates for a critical view of Kassel’s colonial past and present.
“The Decolonial Atlas” is an online project dedicated to the creation of decolonial and domination-critical visualizations, mostly in the form of territorial maps.