Nnenna Onouha, 17 min., 2020

Chronicling the care practices of three Black Berliners –Caritia, “a BDSM practitioner,dominaand sex worker,” Lee a “gender-terrorist, yoga instructor” and Goitseone, “a pessimistic witch,” and “Twa Sana (Light of a New Moon)” -Ritualsconsists of a documentary video and a twelve-piece photo-series (not presented in Montreal). In the video, describing their respective experiences as Black bodies in the German health care system, Lee, Caritia, and Goitseone also demonstrate some of the ways in which they find healing for themselves and for others outside.

 

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States, asking: How do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform, and why? Her work has shown at the Museum Folkwang, the Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery and won awards at the XPOSED Queer Film Festival and theKurzfilmFestival Hamburg. She has published chapters in: Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography, Censored? Conflicting Concepts of CulturalHeritage, and Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island. She is recipient of a 2023-4 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, the 2023 Amadeu Antonio FoundationPrizeand a 2024-5 Krupp Dissertation Fellowship. Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral candidate in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam, and a Research Associate in the Digital Provenance Lab at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.