»LA PALABRE«
Six evenings on decolonial theory and practice.
TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Vierte Welt
“La Palabre” refers to the social practice of public discourse, gathering and conflict resolution in numerous countries on the African continent; the location is usually a baobab tree, l'arbre a palabre.
“La Palabre” deals with themes that we have developed as part of the TALKING OBJECTS LAB over the past two years in symposia, talks, think tanks and artistic interventions. The impulse for each evening is an input from the TALKING OBJECTS LAB (texts, video performances or lectures), on which one or two Berlin artists or speakers, especially from the BIPoC communities, work and discuss together with the invited guests. For the fixed ritual of eating together, we invite cooks, artists, anthropologists, poets and initiatives that deal with the cultural practice of eating, food and its colonial entanglements.
LA PALABRE #5 — REFUSING, EMBRACING, LETTING GO
Decolonizing the Institution
Refusing, Embracing and Letting Go. What to do with the institutions? Cooperation or Refusal? Struggling for visibility or dancing in the dark? We want to talk about what it means to practice decolonization and intersectionality in institutions. What are the strategies – inside and outside the institution? And what does it mean to be a guest in white institutions with decolonial projects and as BIPoC artists*?
Ibou C. Diop and David Frohnapfel talk about diversity work, processes of decolonization, and their work at German institutions, both in research and museum practice––about reclaiming, blockages, failure, hierarchies, spaces of possibility, and liberation in leaving traditional structures. Isabel Raabe shares experiences from the work of Talking Objects Lab. For artistic interventions, we invite artist Felisha Maria Carenage and poet and performer Trovania. Culinary curation and input of this evening are by Daeng Khamlao. The evening is hosted by Miriam Camara.
LA PALABRE is curated by Isabel Raabe and Celina Baljeet Basra.
Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds