Open Call for Dekoloniale Berlin 2023 | Berlin Art Link
Jan. 24, 2023 Dekoloniale Memory Culture in Berlin is inviting artists, architects, designers, directors, performers, fashion designers, writers and urban practitioners to apply for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2023.During this year's exhibit, the cultural centre will examine the history of Berlin districts Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf, as well as the bordering parts of Schöneberg that used to be part of Charlottenburg.
The exhibition aims to reflect on the Royal Academy's role in establishing a canon of Western art history within the contexts of British colonialism, empire, and enslavement. [ more ]
Dahomey,' Documentary About Looted Artwork, Wins Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival
Dahomey, a documentary by Mati Diop, won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for its exploration of colonialism's legacy.
The film highlights the return of 26 looted artworks to Benin, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and addressing the impact of colonial powers. [ more ]
Literature is not a luxury for African writers, as it plays a crucial role in shaping identity and addressing the consequences of colonialism.
The list includes novels that explore topics such as labor unrest in colonial Barbados, Sudanese experiences in Europe, and the fall of the Ottoman empire. [ more ]
Literature is not a luxury for African writers, as it plays a crucial role in shaping identity and addressing the consequences of colonialism.
The list includes novels that explore topics such as labor unrest in colonial Barbados, Sudanese experiences in Europe, and the fall of the Ottoman empire. [ more ]
There is a scene early on in the first episode of Netflix's new Harry & Meghan, the documentary on the members of the British royal family who seceded from the firm, in which Meghan describes her early courtship with the prince.It began, she says, when he saw a photo of her clowning around on a mutual friend's Instagram feed.
Harry and Meghan cellist inundated with racist abuse in Rule, Britannia! row
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the cellist who performed at Harry and Meghan's wedding, faced racist abuse after suggesting the song Rule, Britannia! should be axed from BBC's Proms.
The song is controversial as it refers to Britain's colonial past and involvement in mass enslavement. [ more ]
Literature is not a luxury for African writers, as it plays a crucial role in shaping identity and addressing the consequences of colonialism.
The list includes novels that explore topics such as labor unrest in colonial Barbados, Sudanese experiences in Europe, and the fall of the Ottoman empire. [ more ]
Moor Mother Announces New Album The Great Bailout, Shares New Song "Guilty"
Moor Mother has announced her ninth solo studio album, 'The Great Bailout,' set to be released on March 8.
The album explores the history and effects of British colonialism and features collaborations with artists such as Lonnie Holley and Mary Lattimore. [ more ]
We're artists, not boxes to be ticked': Lubaina Himid on her call to arms and exposing Bath's past
Lubaina Himid's exhibition at Bath's Holburne Museum incorporates vibrant fabrics that tell an alternative history of wealth and exploitation in 18th-century Britain.
The installation aims to engage with the historical figures depicted in the paintings on the museum walls and challenge the perception of Bath as a quintessentially English city. [ more ]
If Toxic Air Is a Monument to Slavery, How Do We Take It Down? in San Jose | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
The art exhibit by Forensic Architecture investigates human rights violations and examines environmental degradation and cancer risk as manifestations of colonialism and slavery.
The agency uses digital reconstruction, remote sensing, and fluid dynamics simulation to develop evidentiary materials that can be used in various settings. [ more ]
Charles is Jamaica's head of state. The island nation may break with the monarchy next year.
As King Charles III put on the centuries-old St. Edward's crown on Saturday, Jamaica, a Commonwealth member, continued to move ahead with plans to cut ties with the British monarchy a decision scheduled for a referendum in 2024.Time has come.Jamaica in Jamaican hands, Marlene Malahoo Forte, Jamaica's minister for legal and constitutional affairs, said in an interview with Sky News this week.
Co-design is often seen as a solution for community engagement and social change, but it can reproduce whiteness and coloniality.
It is important to understand the historical roots and diverse narratives of co-design to create more inclusive and community-driven outcomes. [ more ]
"I think we've got a bit of a crisis in the design industry" says Caroline Till
The conversation of sustainability is at the forefront of design but there is "still a long way to go" said designer Caroline Till at the Materials of Tomorrow symposium during 3 Days of Design.Researcher and designer Till began her keynote speech at the Materials of Tomorrow symposium, which was hosted by furniture brand IKEA's research lab Space10, by focusing on how human activity has depleted the Earth's resources.
Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81
Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian playwright, author and activist who was hailed as one of Africa's leading literary lights as well as one of its most influential feminists, died on Wednesday.She was 81.Her family said in a statement that she died after a brief illness.The statement did not specify the cause or where she died.
THE TRASH REPORT: King Colonizer's Special Party, Fresh Racism and the Feuds They Inspire, and Drake's Boring Mansion of Bad Judgment
Hellooooo, Trash Pandas!It's me, your best friend Elinor Jones, coming at you with a steaming hot pile of gossip, news, and nonsense.I'm writing it while on every over-the-counter allergy medicine I could get my dexterous little paws on, so if the quality is worse than you're used to, blame this lush and verdant hellscape we call home.
Irish premier urges respect' for monarchy amid King Charles' coronation row
Ireland's premier has urged respect for those who support the monarchy in the UK after two opposition parliamentarians questioned the time Irish national broadcaster RTE is devoting to the King's coronation.Leo Varadkar stressed that the model of constitutional monarchy is backed by a majority of people in the United Kingdom as he responded to criticism levelled by two socialist TDs in the Dail parliament in Dublin.
Taoiseach urges respect for UK monarchy amid TV coverage row
Ireland's premier has urged respect for those who support the monarchy in the UK after two opposition parliamentarians questioned the time Irish national broadcaster RTE is devoting to the King's coronation.Leo Varadkar stressed that the model of constitutional monarchy is backed by a majority of people in the United Kingdom as he responded to criticism levelled by two socialist TDs in the Dail parliament in Dublin.
Commonwealth representatives ask for reparations and apology ahead of coronation
Representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries have joined forces to call on the King to acknowledge and apologise for the impacts and ongoing legacy from British genocide and colonisation.The statement, which has been sent to Charles, calls on Britain's new monarch to act on the royal family's recent expressions of sorrow by beginning a process for reparations and returning stolen artifacts and bodily remains.
National Theatre director Rufus Norris announces plan to step down as new season of shows is revealed
R ufus Norris has announced he is to quit British theatre's top job leaving as artistic director and chief executive of the National Theatre in 2025 and describing his stint in charge as the most challenging time in our history.The director, who steered the Southbank institution through the Covid crisis, brought stars including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Olivia Colman, Anne-Marie Duff and Cate Blanchett to its stage after taking over in 2015.
Legacy of racism explored in hugely important' Alberta Whittle exhibition
Artist Alberta Whittle has said she hopes her new exhibition will spread a message of hope amid the challenges of tackling racism.The artist, whose free exhibition opens in Edinburgh on Saturday, said she wanted to explore the themes of care and compassion and the importance of community in galvanising change.
Major works by artist Alberta Whittle acquired for the nation
Two powerful installations by artist Alberta Whittle which explore themes such as compassion and resisting racism have been acquired for the nation's art collection.National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has acquired the tapestry Entanglement Is More Than Blood (2022) and the filmLagareh The Last Born (2022), The two works were at the heart of the Barbadian-Scottish artist's critically acclaimed exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022, where she represented Scotland.
Drinking with the Stars: 8 Famous Movie Cocktails and How to Make Them
Nowhere in popular culture are cocktails so identified with specific moods, feelings and moments as in film.Some have served to revive unfashionable drinks, like The Dude's penchant for White Russians in The Big Lebowski, while other drinks have been defined by (and often maligned because of) television and film associations, like Sex and the City's Cosmo.
Ian Bostridge on Music's Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity
Spring this year has been a particular joy for touring singers like me.The cloud of Covid seems to have evaporated: Restrictions have been lifted, audiences have (nervously) returned and the prospect of being stranded in foreign parts with a positive test is gone, not to mention the diminishing threat of serious or voice-impacting illness.
The candies taste of milk turned to fudge, of cream and butter at once, with the faintest throb of turf, like a memory of some distant pasture.I used to pillage them from the bowl by the cash register at Chinese restaurants: little White Rabbits, pale chewy logs about an inch long, rolled in edible rice paper that vanished on the tongue.
"What if India ruled Great Britain?" reads the caption of a TikTok video, now viewed over 1.7 million times.The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history which never happened: An industrial revolution set off the militarization of India.London fell to the Indian Armada, and wealthy Indian families settled in Great Britain.
Australia's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion aims to "question the relics of the British Empire"
The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown.Named Unsettling Queenstown, the pavilion aims to draw attention to the legacy of colonialism and extraction by focusing on several settlements named Queenstown.
Rivers Solomon, Elisa Gonzalez, and Elaine Feeney Recommend - The Paris Review
As I get older, and the world gets worse, or gets differently bad, or stays the same but my understanding of its badness deepens and broadens, I grow ever more dependent upon books like Akwugo Emejulu's Fugitive Feminism .This short, sharp text reminds readers that, like the rattling door in a haunted house or the concerned face of a friend who understands well the way a lover is slowly bringing about your annihilation, it is good to leave that which does not serve you.
Top of Your Stack - Recommendations from Book Passage 3.23.23 - San Francisco Bay Times
What Happened to Ruthie Ramirez (fiction - hardbound) by Claire Jimenez The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence.When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling.One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spotted a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show.
The 2023 Oscars' Best Original Song Nominees, Cruelly Ranked
The Academy's members gave Warren an honorary award last fall, which makes a fair bit of sense, given that she's never been far from their minds.She received her first Oscar nomination all the way back in 1988, yet she's never won in 13 (soon to be 14) tries.That honorary award would be much more welcome if it meant that Oscar voters would stop feeling obligated to nominate her, particularly when the songs she's written are 1) generic to the point of self-parody; and 2) extremely obscure.
Paris Picasso museum reinvents itself to tackle artist's troubled legacy
Vintage floral wallpaper, wonky flyposters, green astroturf and brown kraft paper are not the usual backdrop for Pablo Picasso masterpieces.But Paris's Picasso museum has radically reinvented its rooms to win back a younger generation that is shying away from the influential Spanish artist over controversy about his alleged cruel treatment of women and his use of African artefacts.
"A remarkable benchmark for future conservation" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing how Mikhail Riches has restored the "original beauty" of brutalist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.A palette of green, blue and purple animates the latest phase of the redevelopment of Park Hill estate in Sheffield, recently completed by Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches.
June Spotlight: Letters In The Mail - The Rumpus.net
June Spotlight: Letters in the Mail Twice a month, The Rumpus brings your favorite writers directly to your IRL mailbox via our Letters in the Mail program.Paul Hlava Ceballos Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of , winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Remembering Raghavan Iyer, Whose Final Cookbook Traces the Continent-Traversing History of Curry
Next week, the Twin Cities community will gather to celebrate the life of James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Raghavan Iyer, a titan of the food world who passed away due to pneumonia complicated by a five-year fight with colorectal cancer in March, at age 61.Attempting to sum up Iyer's impact on the Twin Cities food scene - and more broadly on Indian cuisine in America - is a tall order.
'Like a Dragon: Ishin!' Review: An epic samurai tale leaves Japan for the first time
Sakamoto Ryoma, protagonist of Like a Dragon: Ishin!, and actual historical samurai.Sega It's easy to forget nowadays, but the Yakuza franchise actual struggled outside of Japan for many years.With its mainline games floundering in the West, spinoffs didn't have a chance at localization for an international audience.
Taiwan calls on Germany to help maintain 'regional order' DW 01/10/2023
A group of German lawmakers said their visit to Taipei is a gesture of "solidarity."The visit has sparked criticism and condemnation from the Chinese government.Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen thanked Germany for its support following a meeting with a delegation of senior German lawmakers on Tuesday.
Berlin says goodbye to part of Germany's colonial past
For far too long in Germany we have minimised our colonial past, understated colonial injustices and the crimes committed, said Stefanie Remlinger, the Green leader of Berlin's central borough of Mitte.During the renaming ceremony in the middle of the capital's African Quarter, Remlinger called on participants to look not just to the past, but the future, as well, and to improve the teaching of colonialism in schools.
Berlin: A Square and a Street Now Carry Names of African Resistance Fighters
For a long time, a square and a street in Berlin's Wedding borough carried the names of two representatives of German colonialism in Africa.Not anymore.Nachtigal Square and Lüderitzstrasse were renamed on Friday.Berlin, December 2nd, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Adolf Lüderitz, who lived from 1834-1886, and Gustav Nachtigal, who was born the same year and died one year later, were precursors of colonialism.
French rightwing politician calls for Angela Davis school to be renamed
A row has erupted in France after a rightwing politician insisted that a high school named after the Black US activist Angela Davis should change its name.Valerie Pecresse, who ran for president last year for Nicolas Sarkozy's party, Les Republicains, scoring a humiliating 4.78%, is head of the greater Paris Ile-de-France region.
As the international community contemplates another armed intervention, a reckoning with history is long overdue."What happened to the Creole pigs is a cancer for Haiti," a woman explains in "Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy," a documentary from 2009.Creole pigs-animals indigenous to the island of Hispaniola, which is home to both Haiti and the Dominican Republic-once served as bank accounts for Haitian families.
SUNY Downstate hosts talk on colonial legacy in neurosurgery * Brooklyn Paper
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University held a talk on the racist legacy left by the colonial mindset that continues to harm neurosurgical outcomes for Black communities, both in the United States and around the globe.Gathered at the Flatbush school's campus, SUNY Downstate's Division of Neurosurgery Chief Ernest Barthélemy, along with Claire Karekezi, a trained neurosurgeon currently practicing in Rwanda, gave their perspectives on the ways in which the history of colonialism has left major disparities in public health outcomes that disproportionately harm non-white citizens in western nations.
Review | 'When You Finish Saving the World': Angst times two
StarOutline StarOutline (2 stars) Jesse Eisenberg's feature debut as writer and director, "When You Finish Saving the World," is so imbued with the actor turned filmmaker's idiosyncratic voice that the two central characters - a slightly neurotic do-gooder and her equally overwrought teenage son, played by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard - seem like twin manifestations of the kind of people Eisenberg excels at playing himself.
Harry and Meghan's Netflix show mischief-making' slammed by Tory ex-minister
A Tory former foreign minister has lambasted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix documentary in which the Commonwealth was branded Empire 2.0.Conservative peer Lord Swire used his debut speech in the upper chamber to argue the accusation levelled at the family of nation's in Harry and Meghan's show, broadcast last month, was either deliberate mischief-making or displayed astonishing ignorance.