Key Messages aus der Veranstaltung
#7 Wissensorte
The archive, never neutral and the product of power relations, is an important resource for remembering the past.
22. November 2021
The archive, never neutral and the product of power relations, is an important resource for remembering the past.
22. November 2021
#7 Wissensorte
Artist Talk: Unsettling (Y)our Gaze and Decolonizing the Archive
In this artist talk, Namibian visual artist Vitjitua Ndjiharine provided insights into her artistic practices and experiences working with colonial photographic archives. Through her art she works to dissect the visual legacy of colonialism by physically cutting up photographic subjects and pasting them in different contexts. This process aims to question the formal and conceptual limits of colonial photography while allowing space for new narratives to emerge. With new and re-imagined contexts, the archive becomes a site of transformation, resistance, and disruption.