Colonial Memory: ReTelling DOAA

Colonial Memory: ReTelling DOAA
8.10.2022 – 5.2.2023
Alliance Colonial Memory: ReTelling DOAA in collaboration with Katharina Oguntoye, Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, Nguyễn Ngọc Cẩm Tiên (illustration) Cheyenne (translation), Khaled Al Saadi (camera), Paula Gehrmann (display-Design), and Daniel Adlmüller (graphic-design)

At the “German East African Exhibition” (DOAA) in 1897, on the occasion of the “Saxon-Thuringian Industrial and Commercial Exhibition” (STIGA), 47 East Africans were put on display in Leipzig. The disparagement and racialization of black people were deliberate strategies in the legitimation of colonial power. The alliance Colonial Memory: ReTelling DOAA was formed by representatives of the ISD Leipzig, the collective diversif, the AG Leipzig Postkolonial along with private individuals, with the aim of promoting a critical reappraisal of the colonial aspects of the STIGA and creating non-white perspectives. The exhibition includes historical background information, theoretical content, artistic interventions as well as workshops, and invites visitors to engage with Leipzig’s colonial history.

With the kind support of the City of Leipzig, as part of the theme year “STIGA 1897”.

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mikopa Konferenz 2022
In den neuen Bundesländern gibt es eine solidarische und engagierte Gesellschaft der Vielen. Doch die mediale Berichterstattung über Ostdeutschland ist seit den 90er Jahren von dem noch weiterhin wirkmächtigen Narrativ des „Braunen Ostens“ geprägt. Dadurch wird insbesondere die zivilgesellschaftliche Arbeit, die aus der ostdeutschen Migrationsgesellschaft hervorgeht und von Migrantischen Selbst_Organisationen, postmigrantischen und BI_PoC Initiativen eleistet werden, unsichtbar gemacht. Die Konferenz hat zum Ziel mit dieser Unsichtbarkeit zu brechen und eine partizipative Öffentlichkeit herzustellen, um die Gesellschaft der Vielen in Ostdeutschland selbst sprechen und handeln zu lassen.

Programm:
11-11.15 h – Begrüßung
11.15-11.20 h – Ablauf
11.20-11.30 h Einführung in die Keynote
11.35-11.55 h – Keynote Dr. Noa K. Ha
12-12.30 h – Diskussion
12.30-12.45 h – Einführung Workshopphase
12.45-13.45 h – Mittagspause
13.45-17 h
Workshopphase:
– Politische Kommunikation
– Transformative migrant organizing
– Finanzierung
– Bildung
– Geschichtswerkstatt / Empowerment
17-17.30 h – Pause
17.30-18.30 h – Abschlussdiskussion
18.30-18.45 h – Abschlussmoderation
ab 19 h – Ausklang mit Essen und Abschlussevent
ab 20 h – Abschlusskonzert Tagna Trio
21.30 h – Ende der Konferenz

As part of the exhibition Colonial Memory: ReTelling DOAA  the South African filmmaker and photographer …thabo thindi will show the film “Black faces in white? space”.

This will be followed by a talk and discussion with him.

The documentary film “Black faces in white? space” (2021) by …thabo thindi explores the dynamics and complexity of being black in a country that considers itself homogenously white.

In doing so, the filmmaker attempts to create new perspectives on blackness.

What does it mean to be black in Germany?

The film has a length of 75 minutes and is shown in German and English. Subtitles are available on request.