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.
Signe Jensen's Master's thesis examines the reception of the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat and Tears' at the Flensburg Maritime Museum. In her work, Jensen identifies cognitive dissonance as a fundamental element of colonial memory culture in Flensburg.
The play "The desire to build castles" is a theatrical-performative reflection by the theatre workshop Pilkentafel on colonialism and today's refugee policy.
The play 'Travelling in former colonies' by the theatre workshop Pilkentafel deals with Europes colonial history and, against this background, takes up impressions from journeys to Namibia and the Virigin Islands today.
The exhibition theatre "A Gesture To Find" explores the question of how the people of Flensburg can meet today's inhabitants of the Caribbean islands.