Posts Tagged ‘decolonialism’
Emancipation through Collectivity and Joy: ‘O Quilombismo’ at HKW
by Lorna McDowell // June 27, 2023
‘O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies’ draws on further development of the quilombist…[read on]
Rituals of Resistance: An Interview with Kader Attia
by Adela Lovric // Oct. 8, 2021
The work of the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia teaches us that time alone doesn’t heal traumas. Through visual metaphors, individual and collective histories and information…[read on]
Open Call for Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2021
Mar. 23, 2021
Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, in cooperation with Contemporary And (C&), is pleased to announce the first open call for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency in 2021…[read on]
The New Brutalism: An Interview with Álvaro Guilherme
by Sofia Bergman // Oct. 8, 2020
He and his work could be mistaken for Jean-Michel Basquiat but Álvaro Guilherme is no impersonator. Rather, he is creating the Art Brut of today, and he calls it New Brutalism…[read on]
Towards a Decolonial Future at the Biennale of Sydney
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // May 29, 2020
Re-centring the periphery is the focus of this year’s Biennale of Sydney which takes an expansive approach to its themes of First Nations sovereignty, environmental crisis, community…[read on]
Decolonial Reality: An Interview with Bouchra Khalili
Interview by Jack Radley // Dec. 17, 2019
Moroccan-born, Berlin-based artist Bouchra Khalili never centers herself in her narrative work. Instead, she collaborates with individuals to radically rethink our understanding of the complex…[read on]
Considering the Counter-Colonial Gaze: ‘Spectral White’ at HKW
Article by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 16, 2019
‘Spectral White’ at the HKW assesses how Europeans may have been depicted in the art of the colonized. The exhibition offers an incomplete reconstruction of ethnologist Julius Lips’…[read on]
Unsolvable Equations: Kameelah Janan Rasheed at NOME
Article by April Dell // Dec. 11, 2019
“Are we there yet?” asks a carved relief in the gallery wall. “There” in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s exhibition ‘A Casual Mathematics’ can be found between the lines of her poetic…[read on]
Decolonized Future: An Interview with Larry Achiampong
Interview by Jo Lawson-Tancred // Nov. 08, 2019
Live performance, graphics and film are just some of the media through which British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong explores class, race and postcolonial society in a practice that delves fluidly…[read on]