So, my question for a decolonial digital archive is: How do you make an archive that is for people as much as it is for objects and inanimate things? Could digital technology possibly be a way to bring the tangible and the intangible, the human and the social aspects of these artifacts and documents together?…

What happens if we start acting as if the objects were dead? And then start asking ourselves: What are we burying? What do we want to work on in order to heal? What ties do we want to cut? Njoki Ngumi A digital conversation in December 2021 as part of the TALKING OBJECTS LAB With…

Discussion, Artistic Contributions and Music – Digital event in cooperation with 1014 – space for ideas, New York City (In English) on Dec 17, 21. Practices of knowledge from the African continent with the question of how memory and knowledge can be decolonized. The events will take place in Senegal, Kenya and Germany, accompanied by…

The American artist Kara Walker is presenting her extensive archive of drawings at the SCHIRN for the first time. As part of the exhibition, five protagonists of the Frankfurt cultural scene discuss the reception of Kara Walker’s art in Germany. The artist James Gregory Atkinson, the director Oliver Hardt, the curators Mahret Ifeoma Kupka and…

What knowledge is hidden in objects? What memories are archived in them? What do they have to tell us and how do we make them speak? The event “Le Langage des Objects” at the Musée Théodore Monod in Dakar brought together artists and experts from different disciplines to discuss the identities of objects and their…

Klimawandel, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Pandemie: Die globale Gemeinschaft steht heute vor nie dagewesenen Herausforderungen. Um diese meistern zu können, benötigt es laut Martin Seiler, Herausgeber und Vorstand Personal und Recht der Deutschen Bahn, vor allem eins: Haltung. Doch was bedeutet es, Stellung zu beziehen und Verantwortung zu zeigen? Wie funktioniert Haltung und was hat die des…

Ich traf Zanele Muholi vor fast genau zwei Jahren in Frankfurt. In der Galerie Sakhile&Me, die auf zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika und ihre Diasporas spezialisiert ist, war eine Ausstellung zu sehen, die Muholis Arbeiten in Korrespondenz mit Fotografien von Lindeka Qampi zeigte. Zur Eröffnung trug Afaq Mahmoud Poesie vor. Es gab ein Event mit Vertreter*innen…

“The afterlives of colonialism can still be perceived on the African continent today. Western ideologies permeate everyday life and artistic practice via a ubiquitous westernized Gaze. Which emancipative strategies are African and Afro-diasporic artists pursuing today to bolster their possibilities of expression and to develop new visual languages? What lies beyond the white gaze?” Artist…