Artist Talk in English, on Saturday 23.04 at 14:30 in the exhibition Luisa Ascending (Nikolaikirche, Südermarkt, Flensburg).
The exhibition "Luisa Ascending" deals with the story of 14-year-old Luisa Calderón and artistically explores the question of how everyday violence in colonized areas is connected to our reality in the here and now.
Exhibition by Felisha Maria Carenage in the church of St Nicholas in Flensburg.
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I AM QUEEN MARY is an art project by artists La Vaughn Belle (US Virgin Islands) and Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark), which was inaugurated as a temporary sculpture in Copenhagen on 31 March 2018. As Flensburg profited and actively participated in Danish colonialism, I AM QUEEN MARY also raises questions for Flensburg.
Imani Tafari-Ama is a Jamaican cultural scientist who curated the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat and Tears' in Flensburg in 2017. During her curatorial residency in Flensburg, Imani Tafari-Ama conducted ethnographic fieldwork on Flensburg's colonial connections with Ghana and the Caribbean.
In this article, Inken Carstensen-Egwuom looks at the significance of monuments in urban space, including the installation "Anchoring the Void" in Flensburg and the monument "I Am Queen Mary" in Copenhagen.
"Anchoring the Void" was an installation by Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel. It was shown in the harbour of Flensburg from 16 June to 7 July 2019. A video of the opening of the installation can be found on Vimeo.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the sale of the Danish colonies in the Caribbean, including the people who lived there, to the United States in 2017, the Maritime Museum presented the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat & Tears' from 11th of June 2017 to 4th of March 2018.
The anthology Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial, edited by Marco Petersen in 2018, deals with the Danish-German colonial history in 21 contributions from different perspectives.