In Session #3, artist Ayesha Keshani contributes a lecture performance on the Museum as Plantation, philosopher Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir gives an input on different ways of thinking, and both are joined by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka for a talk. TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Goethe Morph* Iceland: The three-day… Read more
Session #2 focuses on the intersection of landscape and memory and nature as an archive. Chai Tayiana Maina's input is about the origins of place names in Kenya, the poet hn. lyonga reads his poem "Memories of Trees", Neo Musangi talks about dealing with the Nairobi National Park in her lecture… Read more
Video Documentation of Session #1: Harriet Chebet Ng’ok with an input on the Indigenous Forest, and in conversation with Njoki Ngumi, followed by a Digital Lesson from Nairoby by Patrick Maundu. TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Goethe Morph* Iceland. The three-day performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2… Read more
Panel Talks, Discussions and Artistic Interventions Friday, February 10, 2023, 4pm – 9pm in cooperation with Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Nigeria Read more
Awakening, nostalgia and nationalism, Orientalism and the mystification of nature - How did Romantic Europe look at the world? And how does Romanticism shape Europe's self-image today? Read more
Patrick Maundu spoke on the occasion of the workshop ANTI-COLONIAL APPROACHES TO NATURE in Nairobi: a one-day workshop on 15 July 2022 on "Decolonizing Nature" with 15 experts from various fields, discussing about agriculture, food and related health systems, seed archives, climate change and… Read more
Interview with Ann Moraa of LAM Sisterhood on the occasion of the workshop ANTI-COLONIAL APPROACHES TO NATURE in Nairobi: one-day workshop on 15 July 2022 on "Decolonizing Nature" with 15 experts from various fields, discussing about agriculture, food and related health systems, seed archives,… Read more
PUMZI (2009) by Kenian filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu was screened as part of the UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 film program on Sep 15, 2022 at Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House Iceland. Read more
TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Goethe Morph* Iceland. The three-day performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 will take place as part of the festival Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House in Reykjavik on September 13th - 15th, 2022. Read more
Assaf Gruber's film „The Conspicuous Parts“ will be screened as part of UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 – Decolonizing Nature at Goethe Morph* Iceland on Sep 15, 2022. Read more
WILD RELATIVES by Jumana Manna will be screened as part of UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 Decolonizing Nature, Sep 13-15 at Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House. The program on Sep 14 & 15 will be live-streamed from Reykjavik via the website of Nordic House. Read more
„Theatrum Botanicum“ by Uriel Orlow encompasses three individual short films and looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics at large through film, photography, installation and sound. Read more
One-day workshop on 15 July 2022 on "Decolonizing Nature" with 15 experters from various fields to discuss about agriculture, food and related health systems, seed archives, climate change and landscpae as an archive of memories. Read more
UNEXPECTED LESSONS — Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. Poetry Performance »Opowu« by Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo (poet, curator, singer) Read more
The panel on Black (European) Studies surveys the current state as well as the history of Black Studies in Europe and Germany, also in relation to the evolution of Black Studies in the United States. With Natasha Kelly, Peggy Piesche and Vanessa E. Thompson. Moderated by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka. The… Read more
»Why are we keeping our heritage in someone else’s country?« Read more
UNEXPECTED LESSONS – UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. - Artist talk with Elsa M'Bala, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Magnus Elias Rosengarten (host) Read more
What does the “decolonization of philosophy » mean? Is « philosophy » the real object of such a critical operation? Lecture of the performative discussion event UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. Read more
UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. Panel discussion with Bénédicte Savoy (Art historian), El Hadji Malick Ndiaye (Art historian, curator) Moderation: Ibou Coulibaly Diop (Literary scholar) Read more
Keynote lecture of the performative discussion event UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. “What are all of these things?” a seven-year-old in an ethnographic museum asks the facilitator on her way through the… Read more
Keynote lecture of the performative discussion event UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. Read more