The white way of seeing
Sybille Bauriedl and Inken Carstensen-Egwuom have written a text for Ulrike Bergermann about colonial monuments, contested memory politics and the white way of seeing.
Perspectives
Mapping as a method of decolonial memory practice in European cities
In an article published in 2024 in the journal sub\urban (German only), Sybille Bauriedl (European University Flensburg) and Linda Pasch (University of Bonn) look at postcolonial maps. The article examines the extent to which the maps combine decolonial politics of memory with a critical reflection on map production and the power of maps.
The world reimagined
From August 13th to October 31st 2022, a total of 103 artistically designed globes were put on public display in seven cities across the UK to commemorate Britain's involvement in the transatlantic enslavement trade. The blog post reports on the action and explains what Flensburg has to do with it.
Curating Discomfort
'Cuating the Discomfort' is an intervention at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow that critically explores post/colonial power relations in museums. A report on the intervention and why we in Flensburg are inspired by it.
Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial
The project Sønderjylland-Schleswig Colonial aims to collect and communicate the colonial references in the region between Eider and Königsau. On the site there is, among other things, a map with colonial memorials in the region.
I am Queen Mary
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.