ifa Gallery Berlin and German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) are pleased to present this new trilingual publication (German, English and French).
About the publication
Remnants of colonialism continue to mark the social norms still found in school curricula and textbooks today. These ties to the past find expression within structural racism as experienced by so many school children every day—in the schoolyard, in countless classroom interactions, and through that which is not revealed, spoken or conveyed. The anthology explores these colonial continuities and their effects on discourse, imagery, and the politics of language. Embedded in the arts, education, and social sciences, the authors and artists aim to counter these persistences through alternative representations and striking new perspectives.
Artists and authors
Josephine Apraku, Jule Bönkost, María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikolaj Jesper Cyon, Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marlene Dumas, Merih Ergün, Ndèye Codou Fall, Sofía Gallis Murientes, Saraya Gomis, Leila Haghighat, Stacy Hardy, Devin Hentz, Moshtari Hilal, Rangoato Hlasane, Claudia Hummel, Rajkamal Kahlon, Prabhakar Kamble, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Annette Krauss, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Elina Marmer, Sunanda Mesquita, Karen Michelsen Castañón, Babacar Mbaye Ndaak, Neo Muyanga, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Juliana dos Santos, Sumesh Sharma, Thiago de Paula Souza, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Malick Welli, Aram Ziai.
The contributors address the mechanisms by which racist representations are reproduced and perpetuated within educational contexts. They map out potential strategies for deconstructing and transforming the dominant narratives, structures, and materials within educational practices.
Focus is not only placed on school contexts in the German-speaking world: references and links are made to materials and experiences from regions shaped by colonial tyranny. They demonstrate how such phenomena have effects beyond spatial and temporal boundaries. And they show that education, culture, and power are inextricably linked with each other.
Through their diverse experiential backgrounds and areas of expertise—art, academia, teaching and other educational pursuits—different fields and forms of knowledge join together. A central format used in the collaborations between artists and authors from educational and academic backgrounds is the tandem: a collaborative, co-creative space for ideas and action, where different fields of knowledge production interact and resonate with each other.
The book is published to accompany the research and exhibition project Untie to Tie—On Colonial Legacies and contemporary societies of the ifa Gallery Berlin.
German/English orders
bpb.de/shop Zeitbilder order number / catalogue number: 3944
ISBN 978-3-8389-7203-9
German/Français orders: Commandes
Numéro de commande : 3945
ISBN 978-3-8389-7204-6
