Browsing: Racism

The series of events took place in Berlin between March and November 2015 and was dedicated to the interrelationships and entanglements of the two thematic complexes.

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.

The film by the London-based research agency “Forensic Architecture” examines the statements made by Andreas Temme, an employee of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the Halit Yozgat murder case. He was shot dead by members of the so-called “National Socialist Underground (NSU)” in his Internet café in Kassel on April 6, 2006.

The US-American musician Saul Williams processes racist experiences from his childhood and youth in this track.

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.

The network of activists, theater makers, musicians, filmmakers, and scientists was active nationwide for several years beginning in the late 1990s. With performances in public space, conferences, films, and publications, members opposed what one manifesto (1998) called “the question of passport and origin.

Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary is set in 1980s New York City and tells stories from the lesbian, gay, and transgender scene there, grouped around what she calls “ballroom culture.”

The transnationally organized network of grassroots activists in Togo, Mali, Guinea, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, among them numerous self-organized refugees, migrants and deportees, has existed since 2009.

In her short film “Semra Ertan,” Cana Bilir-Meier collages material from the life of activist Semra Ertan into a dense portrait.

“The ABC of Racist Europe” is a children’s book written and collaged by Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz.

AUDREAM – that stands for “Audre Lorde & Our Dreams” and is the name of a mobile anti-racist, feminist library.

On her YouTube channel, “Chescaleigh,” Franchesca Ramsey, a Black activist and comedian from New York, tackles different issues that arise from dealing with racism.