[Kunst Afrikas] EInladung in das Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas | The De-centering the museum student collective: “re|despair – Painful encounters in German museums“ (5.12.2023, 18 Uhr c.t.)

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Liebe Studierende, liebes Kollegium,

wir laden Sie wieder sehr herzlich in das Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas ein. Am kommenden Dienstag wird das The De-centering the museum student collective zu Gast sein. Das Kolloquium findet vor Ort in der Koserstr. 20 statt.
Wir freuen uns auf Sie und wünschen uns eine angeregte Diskussion im Anschluss an die Vorstellung des Projekts.

The De-centering the museum student collective:
“re|despair – Painful encounters in German museums“

Zeit: 18 Uhr c.t., Dienstag, den 5. Dezember 2023
Ort: Raum A 320, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

Dean Stephanus and Fabian Lüke as representatives of the De-centering the museum student collective present the video installation Re:Despair : Painful encounters in German museums. The five-channel video tackles personal experiences with exhibitions and museum storage rooms in five German ethnographic museums, and reflects on notions of care and ownership, distance and proximity and on what showcasing cultures can entail.

The videos developed as part of a collective process to grapple with an intense two-week excursion across Germany MA and PhD students from the universities of Köln and Bremen and the Unversity of the Western Cape undertook. Out of this trip and follow-up visits in Cape Town, Brandenburg, Cape Town, Köln and now Bremen, the Decentering the Museum collective formed and developed the videos you are about to see. Dean and Fabian, together with Vuyisanani Am, Teresa Ellinger, Lara Michalke, Jana Schäfer, Brent Abrahams and Carla Tiefenbacher, were guided by the filmmakers Sebastian Eschenbach and Britta von der Behrens. The project has been facilitated and academically mentored by Anna Brus, Michi Knecht, Ciraj Rassool and Martin Zillinger.
Some more information about the two presenters:

Dean E. Stephanus Is enrolled at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, and completing his MA in the department of Historical Studies. In his work he explores questions of popular culture, popular racism and the academic disciplines through which people have come to develop views about themselves and others, and the epistemic role museums have in this. Dean is involved in various museum work projects. Among them are the international Thinking Through The Museum project, the Critical Race Museology cluster of scholars, and the Agency for Postcolonial* Transformational* Polyphonic* Critical* Dialogical* Sustainable* Equal* education about the pasts and presents, for the futures. He has also participated in an exhibition with a local Hamburg visual artist on issues of housing, Gentrification and the privatization of communities.

Fabian Lüke has studied in Köln, Wroclaw and at Goldsmiths, London, and is completing his MA at the department of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Köln, where he is working on missionary history and memory practices among the Moravian Mission in Germany and in South Africa. He is a visual anthropologist, and has been involved in museum debates and publications since 2019.

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