Discussion: 11H00 - 13H00
The Goethe-Institut is hosting an open talk and community meeting with writer and interdisciplinary artist Grada Kilomba. Kilomba is a Portuguese writer and interdisciplinary artist, with origins in São Tomé e Príncipe and Angola. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, and gender, and has been translated into several languages and staged internationally.
Following Grada Kilomba’s lecture performance “Decolonizing Knowledge” at WiCDS Decolonizing Feminism Conference, Kilomba wants to take time to reflect and share some perspectives on her work dealing with gender, race, trauma, memory and post-colonialism. The audience will be invited to engage in an informal and intersectional discussion on the different forms of oppressions that impact our lives. The artist asks for awareness during the conversation, of how white and/or male privilege can derail necessary conversations and erase the experiences of those facing multiple forms of oppression.
Entrance: Free
Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese writer and interdisciplinary artist, with origins in São Tomé e Príncipe and Angola. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, and gender, and has been translated into several languages and staged internationally. In 2011, she was awarded as one of the “Most Inspiring Black Women In Europe” by BWIE. Her work is best known for bringing texts into performance, using a variety of formats, from print publications to staged readings to video installations, creating a hybrid space between the academic and artistic languages. She is the author of Plantation Memories. Episodes of Everyday Racism (Unrast 2008). She has been lecturing at several international universities, and last was a Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin. In her recent works she explores forms of decolonizing knowledge and alternative formats of knowledge production.
Her work has been presented in renowned international venues of exhibition, theater and academia, such as the Vienna Secession Museum, Brussels Bozar Museum, London Maritime Museum, Centro International de Artes José de Guimarães, Kampnagel, Oslo Literature House, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berliner Festspiel Haus, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Theater Münchner Kammerspiel, Mostra International de Teatro de São Paulo, International Theater Treffen Berlin, University of Stockholm, University of Amsterdam, University of London, University of Accra, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, University of Lagos, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, among others. In September 2016, her work will be shown at 32nd Bienal de São Paulo.
The open talk and lecture performance is realised in context of the international conference WiCDS Decolonizing Feminism 2016 hosted by the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (www.wits.ac.za/wicds) on the 24, 25, 26 August at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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