Grada Kilomba

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"What knowledge is being acknowledged as such? And what knowledge is not? What knowledge has been made part of academic agendas? And what knowledge has not? Whose knowledge is this? Who is acknowledged to have the knowledge? And who is not? Who can teach knowledge? And who cannot? Who is at the centre? And who remains outside, at the margins?"

In 2013, Kilomba adapted Plantation Memories (2008) as a scenic reading at the Ballhaus Naunynstraße theatre in Berlin. [8] [9] The theatre wrote about her work: "With her book, Plantation Memories – Episodes of Everyday Racism, Grada Kilomba succeeds in revealing the consequences of racist violence and racist traumata through her concise and profound language." [10] One year later, the performance was shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . "In her performances, Grada Kilomba brings the oral African tradition to a contemporary context, using texts, narration, images and video projections to recover the memories and realities of a postcolonial world." [11]

In recent works, Kilomba has increasingly been concerned with the performative staging of theoretical and political texts, including the film Conakry (2013) about the African freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral. [12] She has developed the short film with director Filipa César and radio editor and activist Diana McCarty. [13] Conakry was realized at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt ('House of World Cultures') in Berlin and shown at Art Tatler International, Kino Arsena at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art  [ de ] in Berlin and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian ('Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation') in Lisbon, among others. [14]

In an interview with Deutsche Welle , Kilomba stated with regard to contemporary racism: [4]

"We have to start posing other questions. So, it is not the question 'Am I racist or not?' but much more the question 'How do I dismantle my own racisms?' So, it is also not a moral question. It is really a question of responsibility. Racism is not about guilt and shame and denial. It is about taking responsibility."

Grada Kilomba during the presentation of Conakry (2013) Grada Kilomba(c)Conakry1.jpg
Grada Kilomba during the presentation of Conakry (2013)
Grada Kilomba in "Kosmos", at Gorki Theater (2016) Grada Kilomba in "Kosmos", at Gorki Theater (2016)Photo by Ute Langkafel.jpg
Grada Kilomba in "Kosmos", at Gorki Theater (2016)

Since 2015, Grada Kilomba has been developing the project "Decolonizing Knowledge: Performing Knowledge". Kampnagel writes about her lecture performance "Decolonizing Knowledge": "In her lecture performance, Grada Kilomba uncovers the violence of classical knowledge production and asks: What is recognized as knowledge? Whose knowledge is this? Who is allowed to produce knowledge at all? Kilomba touches this colonial wound by opening up a hybrid space in which the boundaries between academic and artistic language blur and the structures of knowledge and power transform." [14]

Decolonizing Knowledge was shown at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Linköping (Sweden) and the Vienna Secession, among others. The project is accompanied by experimental videos such as While I Write (2015), [15] in which Grada Kilomba explores the function of writing for postcolonial subjects. While I Write was premiered at the Vienna Secession in 2015. "Kilomba gives us a glimpse into our narcissistic society, which offers up little by way of symbols, images and vocabularies with which to deal with the present." [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Autorinformationen Grada Kilomba". unrast-verlag.de. Retrieved 8 March 2019.[ dead link ]
  2. "Decolonizing Knowledge Grada Kilomba". Akademie der Künste der Welt. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  3. 1 2 Kilomba, Grada. "Biography of Grada Kilomba". Archived from the original on 17 February 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Talk Show | Insight Germany | DW | 16.10.13 | Deutsche Welle". 20 December 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  5. Kilomba, Grada (3 June 2009). "Das N-Wort | bpb". bpb.de (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  6. "Artista Grada Kilomba evoca o passado colonial para "chegar ao presente e futuro"". ojogo.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Grada., Kilomba (2008). Plantation memories : episodes of everyday racism. Münster: Unrast. ISBN   9783897714854. OCLC   435803984.
  8. Grada Kilomba (25 January 2016), "Plantation Memories" by Grada Kilomba, Trailer I (Engl./Port.) , retrieved 9 March 2019
  9. Grada Kilomba (22 August 2016), "Plantation Memories" by Grada Kilomba, Trailer II (Engl./Port.) , retrieved 9 March 2019
  10. "Ballhaus Naunynstraße – Plantation Memories – Episodes of Everyday Racism". ballhausnaunynstrasse.de. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  11. 1 2 Paulo, Bienal São. "Grada Kilomba • Performance: Illusions – 32nd Bienal". 32bienal.org.br. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  12. Knopf, Eva; Lembcke, Sophie; Recklies, Mara (30 September 2018). Archive dekolonialisieren: Mediale und epistemische Transformationen in Kunst, Design und Film (in German). transcript Verlag. ISBN   9783839443422.
  13. Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (29 June 2017). "Bodies of Fact: The Archive from Witness to Voice". HKW. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  14. 1 2 "Descolonizando o Conhecimento: uma Palestra-Performance de Grada Kilomba – MITSP" . Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  15. Grada Kilomba (11 May 2015), "WHILE I WRITE" by Grada Kilomba , retrieved 8 March 2019
  16. (K)ein Geschlecht oder viele? : Transgender in politischer Perspektive. Schulte-Fischedick, Valeria. (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Querverl. 2002. ISBN   3896560840. OCLC   248568236.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? : Migration und postkoloniale Kritik. Steyerl, Hito., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Encarnación., Kien, Nghi Ha. (1. Aufl ed.). Münster: Unrast. 2003. ISBN   3897714256. OCLC   55513934.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  18. The black book : Deutschlands Häutungen. Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt e.V. AntiDiskriminierungsBüro Köln., CyberNomads (Organization). Frankfurt am Main: IKO—Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation. 2004. ISBN   388939745X. OCLC   60520550.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. Lust am Denken : "Queeres" jenseits kultureller Verortungen : das Befragen von Queer-Theorien und "queerer" Praxis hinsichtlich ihrer Übertragbarkeit auf verschiedene gesellschaftspolitische Bereiche. Perko, Gudrun., Czollek, Leah Carola, 1954–. Köln: PapyRossa. 2004. ISBN   3894382945. OCLC   57220700.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  20. Mythen, Masken und Subjekte : kritische Weissseinsforschung in Deutschland. Eggers, Maureen Maisha (2., überarb. Aufl ed.). Münster: Unrast. 2009. ISBN   9783897714403. OCLC   317710823.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  21. Utopia of alliances, conditions of impossibilities and the vocabulary of decoloniality : conflictual histories in hegemonic spaces. Agredo, Caroline,, Avraham, Sheri,, Cannito, Annalisa,, Gerothanasis, Miltiadis,, Gržinić, Marina, 1958–, Lôbo, Marissa. Wien. 2013. ISBN   9783854095897. OCLC   870962125.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  22. Asking, we walk : the South as new political imaginary. Kumar, Corinne. Bangalore. 2007. ISBN   9788190467742. OCLC   864759703.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  23. "Upp till kamp mot illusionernas makt". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  24. Gallery, McLaughlin. "Grada Kilomba: The Words That Were Missing at McLaughlin Gallery" . Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  25. "Resist! Die Kunst des Widerstands – Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum". Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba(c)2016.jpg
Kilomba in 2016
Born
Lisbon, Portugal
Academic background
EducationPhD
Alma mater Free University of Berlin
Thesis  (2007)