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\"\"<\/a>BE.BOP 2012- BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS<\/a> was the first international screening program and transdisciplinary roundtable centered on Black European citizenship in connection to recent moving image and performative practices. It took place at The Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, a translocal theatre space which serves as point of arrival for artists from (post) migrant communities and beyond. A Project of Art Labour Archives in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung and Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Conceived and curated by Alanna Lockward.<\/p>\n

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SESSION 1 \/ 04.05.2102<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeannette Ehlers<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

Black Magic At The White House<\/em>, 3:46, sound, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives.<\/p>\n

Synopsis: <\/strong> Ehlers performs a Vodoun dance in Marienborg, an old building which has a strong connection to the trans-Atlantic trade. It was built as a summer residence for the commander Olfert Fischer, in 1744. It is now the official summer residency of Denmark\u00b4s Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25062988<\/a><\/p>\n

T<\/em>hree Steps of Story<\/em>, 3:35, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives.<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0We see Jeannette Ehlers waltzing in a big mirrored hall, where the colorful and rebellious governor Peter von Scholten scandalized the white citizens by inviting then the \u201cfree Negroes\u201d to the ball. It was also von Scholten, who proclaimed emancipation of slaves on St. Croix in 1848.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25309738<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeannette Ehlers<\/strong> studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The Funen Academy of Fine Arts. She has exhibited in several cities in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa; her works explores the Danish slave trade and colonialism worldwide through digitally manipulated photographs and video installations. http:\/\/www.jeannetteehlers.dk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

IngridMwangiRobertHutter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neger<\/em>, 4:16, sound, 1999. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ingridmwangiroberthutter.com\/ingrid_mwangi_robert_hutter\/neger_1999.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Wild Life<\/em>, 01:33, sound, 1998. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ingridmwangi.de\/ingrid_mwangi_robert_hutter\/wild_life_1999.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Masked<\/em>, 5:16, no sound, 2000. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ingridmwangiroberthutter.com\/ingrid_mwangi_robert_hutter\/masked_2000.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0In Wild Life<\/em>, Neger <\/em>and Masked<\/em>, Mwangi transforms herself into beastly images that derive from the discriminatory imagination of the West. By becoming first a roaring caged animal in Wild Life,<\/em> and a minimalistic self locked \u201chaired\u201d entity in Neger<\/em> and Masked<\/em>, Mwangi\u2019s videos blend beautiful images with the edge of brutality embedded in racial stereotypes. (By: Laurie Ann Farrel)<\/p>\n

Ingrid Mwangi<\/strong> and her husband Robert Hutter<\/strong> work together as video, photography and performance artists. They came to consider their practice as inseparable, \u201cone artist two bodies\u201d, and thus exhibit under their combined names. The issues that they have tackled have included race, sex and relationships.<\/p>\n

Teresa Mar\u00eda D\u00edaz Nerio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hommage \u00e0 Sara Bartman<\/em>, 4:00, 2007. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives.<\/p>\n

Synopsis: <\/strong>This performance is the result of an investigation on the Black performing body, and on how Blackness has become an act in itself. Sara Bartman\u00b4s iconic status is a consequence of the well documented \u201clegitimate\u201d scientific and voyeuristic rape of her body. http:\/\/vimeo.com\/17094383<\/a><\/p>\n

Teresa Mar\u00eda D\u00edaz Nerio<\/strong> is a Dominican visual and performance artist and researcher that lives and works in Amsterdam, she graduated as a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie 2007 and Master in Fine Arts from the Dutch Art Institute 2009. Her research challenges hegemonic constructions on \u201creality\u201d. http:\/\/teresadiaznerio.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Emeka Udemba<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dancing with the Star<\/em>, 11:46, no sound, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Art Labour Archives.<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> This work explores the conceptual twists and turns of fluidity and impalpability of the body as a social and political context. Issues of tradition, religion and gender are chartered from image to body and body to image.<\/p>\n

Emeka Udemba<\/strong> studied\u00a0Art\u00a0Education\u00a0at the University of\u00a0Lagos, Nigeria.\u00a0His\u00a0artistic practice focuses\u00a0on the use of\u00a0installations,\u00a0video, photography,\u00a0drawing\u00a0and painting \u00a0used as complementary\u00a0to each other.\u00a0His works focuses mainly\u00a0on communication\u00a0in\u00a0the social and political sphere.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/wikiart.net\/index.php\/Emeka_Udemba<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracey Moffatt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other,<\/em>7:00, sound, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and The Momentum Collection.<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong>:\u00a0Moffatt explores the ways in which societies define so-called minorities as the Other, using film collage to elicit poignant and insightful understandings of stereotypes and cultural attitudes.<\/p>\n

Tracey Moffatt<\/strong> is highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography and video, her work draws on history of cinema, art and photography as well as popular culture and her own childhood memories and fantasies. She studied visual communications at the Queensland college of Art. http:\/\/www.roslynoxley9.com.au\/artists\/26\/Tracey_Moffatt\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SESSION 2 \/ 05.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean Marie Teno<\/strong><\/p>\n

Le Malentendu Colonial<\/em>, 78:00:00, sound, 2004. Courtesy of Les Films du Raphia.<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong>:This film looks at Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European colonialism in Africa, indeed, as the ideological model for the relationship between North and South even today.<\/p>\n

Jean- Marie\u00a0Teno<\/strong>\u00a0studied\u00a0audiovisual communication\u00a0and worked\u00a0as a film critic\u00a0for\u00a0Bwana\u00a0Magazine\u00a0and\u00a0as\u00a0chief\u00a0editor\u00a0at France 3. He produces\u00a0his own films\u00a0with the company\u00a0Les Films du Raphia. http:\/\/www.jmteno.us\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sumugan Sivanesan<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Children\u00b4s Bo<\/em>ok of War<\/em>, A [Not So] Secret War<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Terra Nullius and the Permanent State of Exception,<\/em>1:46, sound, 2010. Courtesy of the Artist and The Momentum Collection.<\/p>\n

Synopsis: <\/strong>One interpretation of international law has it that people can prove their sovereignty by their ability to make and maintain laws, and their ability to<\/p>\n

declare war. Looked at that way, war is not only something civilizations do \u2013 it is something they\u00a0must\u00a0do in order for their right to self\u2013rule to be respected.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/childrensbookofwar.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sumugan Sivanesan<\/strong> is an anti\u2013disciplinary artist. He is a member of the weather group_U, an experimental documentary collective focused on indigenous-non\u2013indigenous exchange and collaboration. \u00a0He lectures Experimental Film and Video at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. http:\/\/www.sivanesan.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n

William Kentridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Box\/Chambre Noire<\/em>, 22:00, sound, 2005. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>The development of visual technologies and the history of colonialism intersect in Black Box\/Chambre Noire<\/em>\u00a0through Kentridge\u2019s reflection on the history of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama in Southwest Africa (now Namibia) in 1904.<\/p>\n

William Kentridge<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0South-African\u00a0artist best known for his prints, drawings, and\u00a0animated films<\/a>. Aspects of\u00a0social injustice\u00a0that have transpired over the years in South-Africa have often acted as fodder for his pieces.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mariangoodman.com\/artists\/william-kentridge\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SESSION 3 \/ 06.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael K\u00fcppers Adebisi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Practice, culture and integration<\/em>, sound, 2010. Courtesy of AFROTAK TV cyberNomads. (S. biography on p. 23)<\/p>\n

Synopsis: <\/strong>AFROTAK TV cyberNomads<\/a>, the Black German Social Media, Culture and Education Network, was set up in 2001 to document the exchange of socio-cultural communities of the black German diaspora reaching out to global transatlantic networks.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pVvb7XaoFXs<\/a><\/p>\n

Quinsy Gario<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bearable Ordeal of the Collapse of Certainties<\/em>, 2011, theater & poetry, photo by Brett Russel.<\/p>\n

Quinsy Gario <\/strong>is a spoken word performer and is currently following the MA program Comparative Women\u2019s Studies in Culture and Politics at the Gender Studies Department of the University of Utrecht. He makes art under the banner of NON EMPLOYEES. http:\/\/www.nonemployees.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Final screening followed by reception in partnership with AfricAvenir<\/strong><\/p>\n

5:00 p.m. Hackesche H\u00f6fe Kino<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert A. Stemmle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toxi<\/em>, 89:00:00, sound, 1952. Courtesy of Goethe Institut.<\/p>\n

Synopsis: <\/strong>As one of the first and most successful films to\u00a0directly tackle the problem of \u201crace\u201d in post-fascist Germany, Toxi arguably has been instrumental in the\u00a0(re)construction of the German nation as exclusively white.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ziZr3z10_B8&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Adolf Stemmle<\/strong>\u00a0(1903 \u2013 1974) was a German\u00a0screenwriter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0film director<\/a>. He wrote for 86 films between 1932 and 1967. He also directed 46 films between 1934 and 1970.http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_A._Stemmle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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