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