Opowu
Poetry Performance by Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo
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)
Black (European) Studies
Mapping Academia
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…
Epistemic Shift in Memory and Knowledge
Conversation with Nana Oforiatta Ayim and Felwine Sarr.
Because memory is so often developed from non-written texts, these narratives are more difficult to trace because of the scarcity of traces, but deep in the ideologies, practices, and politics of those denied history is an ethereal yet very real memory that is un-stated but nonetheless dis-static. …
The Other Objects – A New Behaviour
UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 in Nairobi
“The Other Objects” explores the idea that the framework of object movement needs to expand beyond the three-dimensional artefact and consider the public space, the constructed environment as objects upon which the same forces of colonial appropriation and movement. The Nairobi team wishes to invite…
Unexpected Lessons – Welcome Remarks
by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Isabel Raabe, Jim Chuchu and Chao Tayiana
„The Western archive is exhausted!“ says Felwine Sarr. What can knowledge be today, beyond European knowledge systems? New perspectives and questions are needed in order to break up colonial thought patterns and challenge Eurocentric, white views that are deeply rooted in the European understanding…
Decolonization Labour is Emotional Labour
UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021 in Nairobi
»Why are we keeping our heritage in someone else’s country?«
Who heals here?
Artist Talk with Elsa M'Bala, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Magnus Elias Rosengarten (host)
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)
De-Westernization - On African Philosophy
Nadia Yala Kisukidi
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.
Repenser l’histoire d’art
With Bénédicte Savoy, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye and Ibou Coulibaly Diop
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)
Coloniality and Education in Museums
Carmen Mörsch and Nora Landkammer
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…
Music, Knowledge and Transmission
Keynote Lecture by Felwine Sarr
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.
Recreating Ecologies of Knowledge
Keynote by Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Keynote lecture of the performative discussion event UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge, June 11-12 2021, at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Nairobi and online.
Interview with El Hadji Malick Ndiaye
TALKING OBJECTS in Conversation
Ahead of the two-day symposium UNEXPECTED LESSONS, Magnus Elias Rosengarten talked to art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye in Berlin.
Interview with Felwine Sarr
TALKING OBJECTS in Conversation
Ahead of the two-day symposium UNEXPECTED LESSONS, Magnus Elias Rosengarten talked to keynote speaker Felwine Sarr in Berlin.
Syowia Kyambi
Becoming Kaspale
Kaspale is a trickster character I have created and developed over the past two years, which started as an open-ended performance intervention and has developed into other mediums such as photography, collage, and film. Kaspale began as a way to intervene in spaces charged with colonial activities,…
Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro
Where Is Your Fire
«Where Is Your Fire» (2021) is a mourning ritual drawing on archival material of Black Abolitionist women retracing the story of a lost 19th century court case of the murder of a Herero Princess and a stolen African German theatre script. The artist follows the multiple routes of Black Feminist…
Dekoloniale Unexpected Lessons City Walk
A Video City Walk with Israel Kaunatjike, Paulette Reed-Anderson, Mynaka Sururu Mboro and Christian Kopp along colonial traces in Berlin. A Cooperation Project with DEKOLONIALE Memory Culture in the City.
Un-Documented – Unlearning Imperial Plunder
by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
»Un-Documented – Unlearning Imperial Plunder« (35 min) is screened in the context of the performative discursive event »Unexpected Lessons – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge«, which takes place between 11th and 12th June 2021 at Academy of the Arts, Berlin, in Nairobi and online. The film by…
When the empire gets weary, the objects may return
Njoki Ngumi in conversation with Jim Chuchu
Video Talk: Elsa M’Bala and Magnus Elias Rosengarten
TALKING OBJECTS IN CONVERSATION: Magnus Elias Rosengarten discusses with sound artist the healing power of sound and its inherent magic to break through time and space. The interview was conducted in Berlin on the occasion of UNEXPECTED LESSONS, June 11-12, 2021, at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in…
