DISOTHERING: beyond Afropolitan & other labels
A Creative Europe collaborative project on the necessary deconstruction of ‘othering’ practices in European cultural institutions.
Main partner: The Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), SAVVY Contemporary
Partners: Royal Museum for Central Africa, Afropean London, Obieg Magazine
© Wiltrud Hackl
The colloaborative, creative project consisted of an exhibition, symposia, a festival, talks and performances, a residency program and a mapping research component all manifested in 2018 and 2019 in Berlin, Brussels, Vienna and Warsaw.
- Mapping research component lead by Tonica Hunter for Austria - chapter here
- REFLECT festival - Co Curated by Tonica Hunter, Maria Herold and Marissa Lobo - programme as below:
6th Sept - REFLECT: Symposium + Performative Exhibition + DJ line.
The symposium and the performative exhibition took place in cooperation with the “SFC Jugendcorner” and will gather young people as experts, artists and cultural workers to talk about the topics self-reflection, self-love and ‘othering’.
Keynotes and Performers
SFC Jugendcorner (Youth Group of the Schwarze Frauen Community)
Amani Ramesy (performance artist)
Belinda Kazeem Kaminski (artist, writer)
Karen Michelsen Castañón (visual artist and art educator)
Henrie Dennis(activist, curator)
Nitin Bharosa (cultural theorist and writer)
Marissa Lobo (artist, curator)
DJ Line: Sounds of Blackness
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7th Sept - REFLECT: Workshops + Performance + Concert + DJ Line
Workshops
1pm - 2:30pm
Color Writing / Ene Si
2:30pm - 4pm
Wearing Resistance / NeneSurreal
4pm - 6pm
Body Love Movement / Mzamo Jama
Film screenings
Film Shorts / Adia Trischler
Jeannete Ehlers 'Black Bullets'
Elisha Leverock-Smith 'Miss Black Germany'
Janicza Bravo 'Man Rots from the Head'
Showcase by the nomadic platform ‘The Golden Pixel Cooperative’
Performances
ABSTRACTION / Elisabeth Tambwe
Alley of his Majesty...BLACK SWAN / Mzamo Jama
Concerts & DJ Line (moderated by Dalia Ahmed)
9pm Bad&Boujee
salute
ISSAM
Dalia Ahmed
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8th Sept - REFLECT: Lalala – Kids Program
2pm - 3pm Workshop (for Kids)
Watercolor - Ani Ganzala Lorde
2pm - 3pm Workshop (for Parents)
Performing ways of being with each other / Karen Michelsen Castañón
3pm - 4pm Concert
Mapu & Bismani Huni Kuin
4pm - 5:30pm Workshop
Reading & Painting - Kabá Darebu / Luisa Lobo and Fernanda Palmieri
Exhibition (ongoing)
Reading Resistance - Verena Melgarejo Weinandt
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Festival Logo and Branding Leni Charles