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Contemporary Photography in Bamako and Dakar
Contemporary photography from Mali and Senegal has drawn increasing attention from the international art world since the 1990s. Especially vibrant scenes have developed in the metropolitan cities of Dakar and Bamako where numerous photographers are...
What Boundaries?!
The German-Malawian cooperation project “What Boundaries?!” incorporated the music of two continents into a series of new compositions. The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra from Germany and the Lusobilo Band from Malawi teamed up to develop a joint...
Visionary Archive
"Visionary Archive" was a collaborative translocal experiment: Phases and facets of African cinema were researched in five localities. For this project, five archives with very different backgrounds teamed up to develop new presentation forms for...
Simulizi Mijini. Urban Narratives
In the Global North, most measures which strengthen urban cultural heritage focus on preserving historical buildings and structures. In many places in the Global South, however, guidelines for safeguarding urban cultural assets are being developed at...
Spoken Wor:l:ds
“Spoken Wor:l:ds” was a literary exchange project featuring young performers, poets and “spoken word” artists from Berlin and Nairobi and integrated them into an artistic process. Both cities possess very active poetry and word-art scenes which have...
The Great Lakes
Cinema has become a tool of reconciliation for the violence-ridden region of the Great Lakes. Colonial-era boundaries and natural resources have led to a never-ending chain of civil wars, ethnic cleansing and genocide since the 1960s. A young...
Streamlines
Waterways have always been used to move and exchange people, goods and ideas. As international trade expanded, new raw materials were tapped and the demand for exotic products increased in Europe in the 19th century, oceans and waterways became the...
We Don’t Contemporary
Motivated by the academic discipline "Critical Whiteness" and the criticism expressed by the Tanzanian native Safia Dickersbach regarding the “asymmetric” concept of the TURN Fund, the art and cultural centre Kampnagel launched the project “We Don’t...
Return to Sender
There is still a long way to go before Europe is able to look at the non-Western World without its colonial glasses. Perhaps the answer lies in repositioning Europe's role in the world, as voiced by one of Africa’s leading intellectuals, Achille...
Sorry
Inspired by the horror movies of the Nollywood film industry, the German theatre group Monster Truck and the Nigerian theatre group The Footprints are collaborated on a production titled “Sorry” about vampires and other creatures of the night. On...
