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All events as well as further interviews, online exhibitions and essays are documented and published on the accompanying TALKING OBJECTS BLOG.

Archive (Archive practices)

ABOUT THE TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE

The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE is a digital platform looking at questions of decolonial knowledge production and will be launched in December 2024. Read more

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Decolonize Knowledge

Over My Dead Body: Everyone That Calls Me Brother, Brother Is My Brother Indeed

I have to work on this text from the back. I usually start a text by figuring out what I want to call it and then I start writing so that I do not worry about it. The text has a title already on my phone, well there are two texts and they are slightly related. Too much has happened and I am… Read more

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Decolonize Essay

DOGS HUNTING IN THE PARK, OR, HOW TO FOLLOW AN EMAIL THREAD IN 2017

My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger, ignoring that anger, feeding upon that anger, learning to use that anger before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight of… Read more

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Decolonize Talk

UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 – Decolonizing Nature

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

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Archive (Archive practices)

Epistemological landscapes.

This is the script of a lecture by Erik Stein held on the occasion of a workshop on the digital archive in Dakar in January 2023. For the French version, see below. Read more

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