September 16, 2021 / 7 pm (CET) (Post)colonial Deconstruction: Artistic interventions towards a multilayered monument.
In english language
Behörde für Kultur und Medien
As a Webminar-ZOOM organize the Department of Culture and Media, Hamburg the 3rd. Workshop around the topic of how to decolonize the Bismarck-Statue in Hamburg, which is the largest of its kind with 34 meters high and was built after Bismarcks death beginning of the 20th. century.
Therefor I got invited. Mainly because last summer this year I curated the project BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL and invited artists from the former African German colonies.
Introduction:
Verena Westermann
Department for Culture and Media
(Hamburg)
Moderator
: Dr. Lynda Iroulo,
GIGA - Institute (Hamburg)
Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Margit Kern, art historian (Hamburg)
Hybrid Space Lab, Prof. Elizabeth Sikiaridi
and Prof. Frans Vogelaar, scientists/artists (Berlin)
Dior Thiam, artist (Berlin)
Georges Adéagbo, artist/curator (Benin/Hamburg)
Joiri Minaya, artist/curator (New York)
Projection Bismarck,
Thomas Tode and Birgit Dunkel,
scientists/artists (Hamburg)
Yolanda Gutiérrez, artist/curator (Mexiko City/Hamburg)