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.
Byadmin
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.
Byadmin
"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.
Byadmin
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.
Byadmin
The anthology Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial, edited by Marco Petersen in 2018, deals with the Danish-German colonial history in 21 contributions from different perspectives.
ByadminSigne 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.
Byadmin