Concept

You can't get rid of ghosts, they resist repression, return again and again and make themselves known without being asked. As media, they transport the past into the present. "Ghosts of Colonialism" refers to various dimensions of the (post)colonial situation. It is about the invisible/visible continuation of the history of epistemic and concrete violence, of exploitation, slavery and migration, but also about a history of resistance and an insistence on memory. The workshop focusses on audiovisual and artistic approaches to colonialism. So-called explorers played an important role in the production of colonial knowledge. Fascinated by the colonised 'other' and linked to the claim of superiority, they collected people and their things and brought them to Europe. To this day, countless such artefacts can be found in European museums and collections. Artistic and audiovisual works have been directed against colonial fixations and historical fade-outs not only since the decolonisation struggles. The workshop is interested in aesthetic dimensions that resist the desire for visibility and transparency or trace colonial traces right up to the present day - contrary to the particularly persistent refusal in Germany to come to terms with colonial history. The routes of contact and conflict as well as the moments of contamination and relation also come into view. Concept: Maja Figge, Kathrin Peters, Kea Wienand

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Lecture venue

University of Oldenburg
Campus Haarentor, Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118 (bus from the main railway station to the Schützenweg stop)
Room A8 0-001 > Site plan PDF