Friday December 17th, 4pm
The event will take place online.
The Living Archives is an online platform that aims to document, archive and pass on content and knowledge created in BIPoC communities. Furthermore, the site is to be used as a learning portal for these communities to share and add to this knowledge.
The online platform was launched for the first time on November 19th, 2020. Now we are one year down the line – and a lot has happened.
The aim is to collect (lost and/or deleted) content and knowledge that is/was generated within BIPoC contexts and make it accessible to these communities.
xart splitta understands The Living Archives as a “Resistant Knowledge Project” (Patricia Hill Collins). In this context archiving, documenting and sharing knowledge is understood as a decolonial act. The concept of the archive is redefined here with regard to its colonial, racist context of origin and used as a means of “counter-narrative”.
It’ s happening: The second launch of The Living Archives! Celebrate with us the further development of the digital community platform!
On December 17th we are looking forward to the performances of Mandhla and Ginnie Bekoe. As well as a panel conversation about “I Know What I Know!”, embodied knowledge and critical knowledge (re)production with the performer Mandhla and Ginnie Bekoe and Saboura Naqshband und Nicola Lauré al-Samarai!
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Programm
16.00h – 17.00h Welcome, launch 2.0, presentation of the homepage and review with Juliana Kolberg (xart splitta) and as returning guest Iris Rajanayagam.
17.00h- 17.30h Performance by Mandhla
17.30h – 19.00h Panel discussion incl. Q&A with Mandhla, Ginnie Bekoe, Saboura Naqshband and Nicola Lauré al-Samarai. Moderated by: Juliana Kolberg
19.00h – 19.30h Performance spoken word by Ginnie Bekoe
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The event will take place in German and English spoken language with interpretation DE-ENG and DGS (german sign language).
Pls. register via contact@xartsplitta.net.
The Living Archives is funded by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb.
Speakers
Mandhla. is a 24 year old trans-feminine gender non-comforming body born and raised in Zimbabwe, Africa. As a current resident between Berlin and Cologne, she brings a blend of experimental R&B and Soul music intertwined with visual projections and performative dancing. Her music speaks of the daily trials that Trans*, enby and femme* immigrant bodies experience daily with love, identity, sex and acceptance.
A strong lover of fashion, the art of voguing and music, she promises to bring to you an experience that takes you to a world of beauty and divine epiphanies through fierce queer representation and black femme* power.
As a political and social activist, she is a part of the BIPoC collective, DEMASK, which strives in creating safer spaces for QT (Queer, Trans) BIPoC in Cologne and surrounding areas. mandhla. (wordpress.com)
Ginnie Bekoe ist ein*e Schwarze Aktivist*in und macht Vorträge, Workshops und Poetry vorranging zu den Verschwurbelungen von Schwarzsein, beHinderung, Fatness & Queerness. Dabei schöpft Ginnie aus der eigenen Identität und eigenen Erfahrungen, wie auch weitergegebenem Wissen (sogar aus Büchern!). Darüberhinaus beschäftigt sich Ginnie extensiv mit Babyelephanten und Eiscreme.
Nicola Lauré al-Samarai Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin (historian, cultural theorist). Zu ihren Interessenschwerpunkten gehören BPoC-Geschichte in Deutschland sowie diasporische Bewegungs-, Erinnerungs- und Kulturpolitiken im weitesten Sinne. Sie arbeitet als Autorin und Lektorin sowie als Kuratorin und Vermittlerin im Bereich historisch-politische Bildung und war an verschiedenen Buch- und Ausstellungsprojekten beteiligt, darunter Labor 89: Intersektionale Bewegungsgeschichte*n aus West und Ost und Decolonize ’68! – Bewegungsgeschichtliche Erfahrungen von Schwarzen Frauen und Frauen of Color.