The starting point for the project “(De-)colonial Images” by ISD (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e.V.) and glokal e.V. is the development-political donation advertising, which shapes the consciousness of the viewer through its placement in public space and in the media.
Browsing: Decolonization
Indian writer, diplomat and politician Dr Shashi Tharoor, in his address to the Oxford Union Society, names some of the effects of British colonial policy on the Indian people and economy.
Published in 1998, British journalist and writer Kodwo Eshun’s book spoke and speaks so eloquently about music and identity(s), drum computers and (non-)human bodies, electronic sound aesthetics and Afrofuturism, forms of world appropriation and worldliness of popular music, that one can easily become dizzy.
The practice research project “Places of Memory. Forgotten and Interwoven Stories” takes many, sometimes new, looks at people, places and tours in Berlin. And addresses who and what has not been in focus until now, secures traces that have been hidden or forgotten.
In this literary essay, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, drawing on an interview with Senegalese musician and politician Youssou N’Dour, tells of colonialism and learning to swim, of politics and poetry, of music and essentialist understandings of culture and identity.
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”.
The campaign was initiated in 2016 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London by students and faculty.
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 alliance consists of political activists, scientists and representatives of various civil society initiatives.
In his dissertation published in 2011, musician and music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt explores the extent to which popular music contains, transports, and negotiates (post-)colonial knowledge.
“The Decolonial Atlas” is an online project dedicated to the creation of decolonial and domination-critical visualizations, mostly in the form of territorial maps.
“The ABC of Racist Europe” is a children’s book written and collaged by Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz.