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Available 18 July – My new short film is part of “Kolonialismus & Widerstand” Digital Exhibition

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Please read the full announcement at the Museum website, which is in German but translatable via browser app.

“Not your Indian”, a short film by Red Haircrow.

From the website: “With our new digital guide, we invite you to experience the Museum Fünf Kontinente in a new way. It offers diverse perspectives on colonial history and forms of anti-colonial resistance. The guide explains how individual works presented in the permanent exhibitions came to be in Munich and identifies the contexts of injustice in which the museum is entangled.”

“Kolonialismus & Widerstand bringt Stimmen aus Herkunftsgesellschaften, Diaspora, Kunst und Forschung auf gleichberechtigte Weise zusammen. Provenienzrecherchen aus dem Museumsarchiv begegnen multimedialen Kunstinterventionen und Perspektiven aus Afrika, Europa, den Amerikas, Asien und Ozeanien.

Mit Beiträgen von: Heena Ansari, Sokhieng Au, Eva Bahl, Denilson Baniwa, Hope Bartley, Memory Biwa, Gift Uzera, Muningandu Hoveka und Nicola Brandt, Gladis Arosemena Caicedo de Crespo und Ignacio Crespo, Hamado Dipama, Crystal Gail Fraser, Regis Hitimana, Bob Jahnke, Natasha A. Kelly, Ayşegül Koca, Khosran Kiyanrad, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Maria Muehombo, Luis Muro, Moe Myat May Zarchi, Ana De Orbegoso, Red Haircrow, Nancy Rushohora, Ibrahima Sene, Michael Tuffrey, Tanith Wirihana Te Waitohioterangi und anderen.

Kolonialismus & Widerstand: Wege des Erinnerns wurde ermöglicht durch eine Förderung im Programm kultur.digital.vermittlung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst.”

Our Film Excerpt in Deutsches Hygiene Museum’s New Exhibition on Race – May 19, 2018 to Jan. 6, 2019

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Pleased to announce our small part in the upcoming new exhibition on race at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, Germany. Some of our film footage will be part of a critically needed discussion on the origins of the race myth, and the subsequent creation and uses of stereotypes within the white supremacist power structures and institutional racism that is standard operating procedure for European run countries, (descendants or directly) wherever they are in the world. Facebook event.

The exhibition will be available to the public, 19 May 2018- 6 January 2019.

12 &15 October: A Workshop on Native Issues Then A Conference on “Stolen Sacred Objects & Human Remains”

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And if you don’t know the backstory on this: here’s a briefer. The Humboldt Forum is a German state funded multimillion-dollar recreation of a Prussian emperor’s palace. Began in 2013, scheduled for finish in 2019, it will house the multiple thousands of looted and stolen indigenous and other cultural objects from around the world, including human remains.

There has been an on-going protest against the project, especially as reparations for colonial genocide are being met with resistance and apathy by many Germans, and like the “new” airport (did they ever finish it?) has been troubled with internal and external problems. There are those who work with or in association with the Humboldt Forum who agree items were stolen and should be returned, that continue to internally advocate for change, and these conference gives voice to encourage they and others to be more demonstrative in their advocacy.

French art historian Bénédicte Savoy recently quit the project, to the great consternation of the Forum, because of the continued ignoring of unethical procurement Humboldt has the opportunity to correct, but thus far does not. Even in the consultation work on the items and remains, indigenous persons, peoples and tribes are ignored in favor of Eurocentric German opinion.

Director, Red Haircrow will be speaking on and sharing information about stolen sacred items, objects and human remains on 15 October at this conference. Learn more about the event and other details at the Facebook page.

On 12 Oct. Red will be giving a workshop at the Brebit event “Fachtag ‘Entwicklungshilfe’ oder Reparationen?” Themes of rethinking Columbus Day, indigenous activism, and contemporary issues. Find more details at their event page.