STRATA - Knowledge Archive
An international performance-film screening on ecologies and bodies
created by VestandPage 2022
An international performance-film screening on ecologies and bodies
created by VestandPage 2022
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Mba Bikoro's interview discusses: 00:35 Reclaiming the Stolen Echo 02:30 Cry Out My Poetry – A Spillage towards Postcoloniality 07:48 German Colonialism 23:34 A Queer Ecology of Remembering 28:11 Home – Geography, (Post)colonialism and Patriarchy 35:49 Women, White Liberalism and Allyship 39:14 Politically Poetical: On the Death of Europe |
The STRATA Knowledge Archive is a collection of interviews with scientists and artists created as part of VestAndPage's performance-based art film project “STRATA”.
Gabonese artist Anguezomo Mba Bikoro works on tender transgressions, ancestral healing, transformative justice and future monuments. For this, they merge live art performances with installations, sonic radio and film to analyse processes of power and fiction in historical archives. For “STRATA”, Bikoro realised a performance-for-camera at the historically charged site of the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave. In the 1930s, the SS financed archaeological excavations that took place there. At this site, Bikoro unleashes an urgent discourse about Germany’s colonial past and present structures, oppression and their vision of postcoloniality, and the harm of patriarchy and white liberalism. They share and politically-poetically contextualize narratives of the ancestral archive from Gabon, Morocco and Algeria. They uncover the process of a queer ecology of remembering through the traces of the ecosystem and explain why art is a powerful tool in shedding light on silenced narratives.
https://www.stratafilm.de/knowledge-archive
https://vimeo.com/710374901
Gabonese artist Anguezomo Mba Bikoro works on tender transgressions, ancestral healing, transformative justice and future monuments. For this, they merge live art performances with installations, sonic radio and film to analyse processes of power and fiction in historical archives. For “STRATA”, Bikoro realised a performance-for-camera at the historically charged site of the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave. In the 1930s, the SS financed archaeological excavations that took place there. At this site, Bikoro unleashes an urgent discourse about Germany’s colonial past and present structures, oppression and their vision of postcoloniality, and the harm of patriarchy and white liberalism. They share and politically-poetically contextualize narratives of the ancestral archive from Gabon, Morocco and Algeria. They uncover the process of a queer ecology of remembering through the traces of the ecosystem and explain why art is a powerful tool in shedding light on silenced narratives.
https://www.stratafilm.de/knowledge-archive
https://vimeo.com/710374901