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International Conference at the Hamburg University
Exchange with Ghana
September 20th - 26th, 2012
Structures and Processes of Commemorating Cruelties in Academe and History Teaching.
The commemoration of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and of the National Socialist
Crimes in Comparison
> program (pdf)

08/08/2012

Kumasi Crossroads Artists' Catalogue now online
 
The international symposium Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art in Kumasi, Ghana in July|August 2009 brought together artists from four continents. The conference was organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST,  the African Community of Art Educators AFRICOAE and the University of Oklahoma. During the symposium the artists presented their complex and multifaceted works-in-progress in the exhibition Kumasi Crossroads - global kiosk affairs in the KNUST Museum with participative transcultural interventions investigating the global locations.  
 
- Kumasi Crossroads Artists' Catalogue high resolution download version (pdf 16 MB). For download please click on the link with the right mouse button and choose the download function in the appearing window. For opening a pdf file you need the free software Adobe Acrobat Reader.
 
- Kumasi Crossroads Artists' Catalogue low resolution browser version for quick viewing (pdf 1,8 MB)
 

Exhibition view at Sankofa Space which questions chances of postcolonial, transcultural cultures of remembrance.
The installation was initiated by Jokinen and Gordon Uhlmann and realised together with the participants of the symposium.
 
 

Re-Painting the Red of Rex Akinruntan, Kojo Apori, Ralitsa
Diana Debrah und Charlie Michaels was an intervention in
urban space with critical views at the omnipresent brandings
of the international companies in Ghana. The installation in the exhibition Kumasi Crossroads - global kiosk affairs documented the work.
 

The participation in the symposium, the art exhibition and the research took place within and was supported by the framework of Wir sind woanders #3, a program initiated by the non-commercial art 'off' spaces in Hamburg, Germany.
 
We thank
IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.
NUE Norddeutsche Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung
for funding.
 
10/06/09

 
afrika-hamburg.de goes Africa
 
Invitation to the
international symposium Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art 
and art in public space exhibition Curio Kiosk Project
organised by the African Community of Art Educators AFRICOAE
07/29-08/15/2009
at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana 
 
The art project afrika-hamburg.de (with English summary) about postcolonial cultures of remembrance and the colonial in the present is now invited to Ghana. A central focus of the symposium researches contents and forms of possible transcultural and transcontinental cultures of commemoration.
 
The artist Jokinen and the historian Gordon Uhlmann are invited to present their performative installation projection posthum: Heaven above Wandsbek - Guinea - St. Croix (in German) which started 2007 at the Schimmelmann mausoleum in Hamburg-Wandsbek and which then was exhibited in Kunsthaus Hamburg within the project wandsbektransformance. The work confronts the glorifying local exposure of the slave trader Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann by the city administration. projection posthum sets a temporary sign for those who were enslaved by Schimmelmann and who are not until today at all commemorated with any lieu or symbol in urban space.
 
Jokinen and Gordon Uhlmann will present their work in lectures and an installation. In a workshop the participants are invited to install a postcolonial remembrance space work.
 
Furthermore, research and mapping of colonial vestiges along the coast of Ghana is planned combining and comparing historical spaces between West Africa and the Lower Elbe region near Hamburg. Together with the Goethe Institute Accra encounters with local artists are planned.
 
After their return in Hamburg, Jokinen and Gordon Uhlmann will invite to a discussion about the results and experiences.
 
The participation in the symposium, exchange and research takes place within the program Wir sind woanders #3 (We're somewhere else) of the Hamburg based not-for-profit artist-run spaces.
 
The project is funded by:
IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.
NUE Norddeutsche Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung
 
07/28/09
 

Installation projection posthum: Heaven above Wandsbek - Guinea - St. Croix
at the Schimmelmann mausoleum in Hamburg-Wandsbek and in the artists' house FRISE
 
 

The world's first International Slavery Museum opened in Liverpool

In the centre of Hamburg-Wandsbek an honouring monument for one of the most globalized slave trader of his time - Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann (1724-1782) - was erected in 2006. The bust was financed by private sponsorship and supported by the Community Administration and the Cultural Ministry of Hamburg. Since then many citizens and groups have protested against this scandal.

In other European cities the discussion about slavery and slave trade is having a much more critical note. In this year across England's museums, galleries and even houses of parliament the subject has been evident in numerous pioneering exhibits commemorating the first abolition 200 years ago. In Liverpool, where at its peak 80 % of the British slave trade was controlled, now the first International Slavery Museum has opened highlighting the international importance of slavery, both in a historic and contemporary context. "There is now a pressing need to tell a bigger story because of its relevance to contemporary issues that face us all." -> www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism

10/10/2007

 

 

 

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