Join us for the digital launch of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE!
We are hosting a digital launch to mark the culmination of an extensive conceptual and curation phase. The launch will feature artistic interventions and insights into this living archive. It will also bring together core thinkers and contributors of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE, including the archive’s curatorial team, and feature the Minister of State Claudia Roth in a bilingual Livestream.
Date: January 17, 2025
Time: 17:00 GMT (Dakar), 18:00 CET (Berlin), 20:00 EAT (Nairobi)
Moderator: Aisha Camara
Language: English and French
The dynamic digital structure of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE, a project under the TALKING OBJECTS LAB, was developed in collaboration with African Digital Heritage (Nairobi) and the designers from visual intelligence (Berlin).
The themes woven into the archive’s framework range from reflections on knowledge, identity, memory, and the imaginary to questions of restitution and reclamation.
The programme of the digital launch will include, amongst others:
- An introduction by the Curatorial Team of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE: Chao Tayiana Maina, Isabel Raabe, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, and Malick Ndiaye.
- Welcome remarks by the Federal Minster of Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, who will also present her favorite item from the archive, as well as Rose Fields, Head of Program Arts and Culture of KfW Stiftung.
- A presentation of the Digital Archive by Chao Tayiana Maina and visual intelligence.
- Artistic Interludes by Nando Nkrumah, Alibeta and Gladys Kalichini.
Join us to celebrate the start of this new phase!
Click the button to register now for the Livestream link and updates leading up to the launch.
About the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE
“TALKING OBJECTS” is an attempt to contextualise objects that were plundered through colonial domination. It is an experiment in building a decolonial archive for decolonial knowledge production. An archive that has no claim to completeness; that is a living archive and an ongoing expression of freedom, through creation, collaboration and iteration.
