program
Until May 28, 2023, the model project "Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City" and the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum are showing the jointly developed exhibition "DEPITE EVERYTHING: Migration to the Colonial Metropolis Berlin". At the end of the cooperation, we cordially invite you to our event "DEPART OF EVERYTHING: Decolonize archives!", where we critically examine the sources and structures of archives. Due to the inherently precarious and incomplete source situation in public archives, it is possible for exhibitions such as "NOT EVERYTHING: Migration to the colonial metropolis Berlin" to reconstruct colonized people as subjects simply by providing private photo albums and objects in a trusting manner. But the exhibition of private images in turn raises new questions about the transmission of marginalized stories and the ethics of showing itself.
The event »DEPITE EVERYTHING: Decolonize archives!« reviews the cooperative exhibition in a public tour, asks the art and the scientists involved, but above all direct descendants about their wishes, ideas and insights on the topic.
Curatorial tour of the exhibition
3:30 p.m
We invite you as part of the final event on 12.5. to a curatorial tour of the exhibition "DEPITE EVERYTHING: Migration to the Colonial Metropolis Berlin" . The focus is on the stories of the people who came to the city in the course of colonialism despite racial discrimination and exclusion and became Berliners. The historian and co-curator Laura Frey explores the complex realities of life and resistance in her tour of the exhibition.
Dekoloniale [re]visions 2/23 »DEPITE EVERYTHING: decolonize archives!«
17:00 o'clock
The second edition of this year's "Dekoloniale [Re]visions" think tank deals with diasporic archives, which form a basis for the joint exhibition "DEPART OF EVERYTHING: Migration to the Colonial Metropolis Berlin" and the ethical questions that museum work raises with their use . Due to the inherently precarious and incomplete source situation in public archives, it was possible to implement the exhibition in this form through the trusting provision of private photo albums and objects. But exhibiting private pictures raises new questions about the transmission of marginalized stories and the ethics of showing itself, which we would like to address in this think tank together with descendants of the people on display and the scientists involved.
Moderator: Bebero Lehmann (Dekoloniale)
Input & Panel: Roy Adomako, Robbie Aitken, Anujah Fernando and Danielle Rosales
Languages German
Movie night and talk with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Christopher Nixon
8:00 p.m
In her work, artist and filmmaker Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński deals with the violent history of archival material and the trauma of colonization. In her cinematic works, she enters into a dialogue with the past, which is not understood as past, but as a gateway for questioning from a diasporic present. Archive structures are analysed, boxes are opened, looks are crossed, ladders are climbed and photographs are covered up again. Boundaries between then and now and between places on the African continent and Europe blur and eventually become obsolete. Afterwards Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Christopher Nixon get into conversation.
