Decolonizing Knowledge | Lecture performance by Grada Kilomba
Lecture performance by Grada Kilomba followed by a talk in between Grada Kilomba, Clifford Erinmwionghae and Marissa Lôbo.
The lecture is organized as part of the Kültürgemma Fellowship for 2014/2015 awarded to Clifford Erinmwionghae project “Interactive Photography” and in collaboration with two institutions: Secession, Brunnenpassage and the Post Conceptual Study Program (PCAP)/IBK at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Erinmwionghae´s project will consists among other activities of 3 events organized from June to October 2015.
The first event is the lecture performance by Grada Kilomba (Portugal, Berlin). Kilomba is a writer, theorist and interdisciplinary artist. Her work draws on memory, trauma, and post-colonialism intertwining the academic and artistic languages in a variety of formats, from print publications to staged reading and performances.
Kilomba is the author of Plantation Memories, a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories; and co-editor of “Mythen, Masken und Subjekte”, an anthology on Critical Whiteness. Her recent work includes a film on the African liberation leader Amílcar Cabral, titled: Conakry, as well as the staging of Nuruddin Faras literary work on Loss, Borders, and Politics. Kilomba was a Guest Professor for Gender Studies and Post-colonial studies, at the Humboldt University - Berlin. Currently, she is a writer/artist in residence in the city of Berlin, where she is developing a series of projects on decolonial feminism, and decolonizing and performing Knowledge.
After the lecture a talk will follow in between Grada Kilomba, Clifford Erinmwionghae (refugee activist and cultural event promoter in Vienna, currently studying Post Conceptual Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)and the artist Marissa Lôbo (one of the coordinator and curator of the Kültürgemma project, which is the only artist grant for Migrants and Refugees in Vienna).
The audience is invited to participate and to re-imagine the concepts of knowledge and power with opening new spaces for decolonial thinking.
The whole event is held in English.