BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL LAB=FORUM
We want to invite you to our project BISMARCK DEKOLONIAL LAB=FORUM (in english language only) which will take place
on April 16th at 6pm (German time) via Livestream on Facebook (you can join even if you don't have Facebook).
BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL is an activist-performative utopia with artists from Yaoundé, Lomé, Windhoek, Kigali, Dar es Salaam and Hamburg.
We are an international team and aim to critically approach the Bismarck monument in St. Pauli in Hamburg, to create an artistic counter-project of decolonization.
The Bismarck statue in Hamburg is being restored from 2020 till 2022 for around nine million euros.
What is needed here is a collective and decolonizing dissenting voice that initiates a critical discussion.
This once again confronts us with the question of how we, as a society, deal with the colonial history of Germany.
Otto von Bismarck, as one of the key figures in the colonization of Africa,
still stands, (uncommented) without reference to his colonial past, as a colossus in the middle of Hamburg.
Therefore, the focus of BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL is on the artistic narratives of people from the former German African colonies.
This enables a necessary change of perspective, as this is a very important way to start a decolonizing process. The central questions are:
What do they have to say when they come from the former German colonies and see this huge monument?
What forms of artistic actions can decolonize Bismarck?
Date: April 16th
Time: 6 pm (German time)
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In this LAB=FORUM the artists will present their ideas, and have a discussion about the topic.
As curator of the project I have invited following artists:
Isack Peter Abeneko from Tanzania (Dancer, Performer, Choreographer, Musiker)
Vitjtiua Ndjiharine from Namibia (Visual artist)
Stone from Cameroon (Performer)
Dolph Banza from Rwanda (Visual artist)
Moussa Issiaka from Togo (Dancer, Performer, Choreographer)
Fabian Villasana aka Dr. Calavera from Mexico (Visual artist)
Moderation: Zainab X
We look forward to your participation!
The LIVE=FORUM BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL will follow in the summer of 2021, when the artistic contributions will be presented live around the Bismarck monument.
Yolanda Gutiérrez and Team: Anna Sophie Felser (Dramaturgy), Lucia Lilen Heffner (Assistance Management), Sarah Lasaki (Artistic Assistance),
Dr. Calavera (Technical Support/Graphik Design), Igor Sherba (Foto documentation)
Funded by the Department of Culture and Media Hamburg.
A project of yolanda gutiérrez & projects
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https://www.kampnagel.de/de/programm/bismarck-dekolonial-als-liveforum/?id_datum=10586 BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL als LIVE=FORUM at Alten Elbpark, St. Pauli August 13th to 15th at International Sommerfestival Kampnagel
Using video mappings and interventions, eight artists from former colonies critically examine Hamburgs huge Bismarck statue and the way Germany's colonial history is dealt with.
Otto von Bismarck is one of the key figures in the context of the colonisation of Africa in the 19th century. At Bismarck's invitation, European powers, the Ottoman Empire and the USA met at the so -called Congo Conference (1884-1885), which had far-reaching consequences for the African continent. To this day, a monumental statue of Bismarck (1901-1906) rises above the old Elbe Park in Hamburg. The city of Hamburg is restoring this monument for around nine million euros from 2020 to 2022. This decision was controversial: What signal will the restoration of the monument send in Hamburg? How we deal with the colonial past is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention, both in urban spaces and in institutions, currently in the discourse about the ownership of the Benin statues of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. How can and do we want to deal with signs of colonial history in urban space? How do the formerly colonised look at these representations of European history? How can a critical view and reappraisal of colonial monuments become visible? The Mexican-German choreographer and curator has been reflecting on this question since 2017 in various artistic projects with international dancers and performers, summarised on her platform SHAPE THE FUTURE. For the Kampnagel International Summer Festival, she is curating a performative tour and video mapping around the Bismarck Monument. BISMARCK DEKOLONIAL reflects a new postcolonial view of the monument - by artists from Tanzania, Rwanda, Namibia, Togo, Cameroon, Mexico and Germany. Their own experiences as subaltern "subjects", who are still unwillingly marginalised in discourses today, appear as a performative voice and body in a dance intervention at the Bismarck monument.
With BISMARCK DEKOLONIAL, a change of perspective is now stimulated: The Mexican-German choreographer and curator Yolanda Gutiérrez, together with artists from Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Togo and Rwanda, is focusing on artistic narratives of formerly colonized peoples. Since April, they have commonly been workin on collective, decolonizing artistic countervoices in the form of a lab. The results has been presented in August in the form of video mappings on the statue itself and live performances around its pedestal.
Curator/Producer: Yolanda Gutiérrez
Management: Lucia Lilen Heffner
Dramaturgy: Judith Mauch
Assistance: Valerie Witt
Costumes: Yupanqui Ramos
Audio/Foto- & Videodocumentation: Igor Sherba
Videomapping: Dr. Calavera
Animations: Dolph Banza
Assistance Videomapping: Stephanie Fenner
Website: Uli Mathes
Video & Track #1: Isack Peter Abeneko
Artists performing: Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Stone, Moussa Issiaka, Sarah Lasaki, Faizel Browny, Samwel Japhet and Shabani Mugado.
Helping Hands: Joshua Raudies, Pearl Merfort, Paul Osemann, Celina Sals
Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste from funds of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as in the frame of Kultursommer Hamburg
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