{"id":1757,"date":"2015-05-04T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T12:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schlingensief.com\/weblog\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T12:43:44","slug":"unrecounted-historical-amnesia-in-germany-and-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schlingensief.com\/weblog\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"UNRECOUNTED: HISTORICAL AMNESIA IN GERMANY AND NAMIBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vom 4. bis zum 9 Mai findet im Palazzo Pisani im Rahmen der Biennale die Austellung UNRECOUNTED: Historical Amnesia in Germany and Namibia statt. Unter anderem wird dort Christoph Schlingensiefs Film „The African Twin Towers“ (2005 \u2013 09) erneut vorgestellt und in einem besonderen Kontext zug\u00e4nglich gemacht.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What for? So that at last you will see what you did not see.
\n\u2013 <\/em>Hans Magnus Enzensberger)<\/p>\n

UNRECOUNTED juxtaposes a screening of Christoph Schlingensief\u2019s film The African Twin Towers with Nicola Brandt\u2019s installation Indifference. Namibia, with its history of German colonization (1884-1915) and South African apartheid rule (up to 1990), is the setting for both works. In response to Okwui Enwezor\u2019s Venice biennale theme All the World\u2019s Futures, UNRECOUNTED shows two artists who have inherited the legacy of the colonizer. This is the first exhibition at the Biennale to be supported by the National Art Gallery of Namibia.<\/p>\n

Christoph Schlingensief\u2019s The African Twin Towers (2005-09) is a non-linear documentary film relating Schlingensief\u2019s attempt to stage Richard Wagner\u2019s Ring Cycle in Namibia. Arriving in Namibia, Schlingensief soon abandoned the feature film he initially envisaged. Instead, he erected a rotating stage in the middle of the township Area 7 of the former German colonial town L\u00fcderitz, inviting the residents to participate in construction of new stories. The film is a fragmentary record of these events. Schlingensief (1960-2010) was posthumously awarded the Golden Lion for the display of his work in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2011.<\/p>\n

Indifference (2014) is a video installation by the Namibian artist Nicola Brandt (b.1983). Brandt collaborated with Herero women in Namibia. In the work, a sixty-year-old Herero-Namibian and a ninety-year-old German-Namibian recall a day spent close to unmarked mass graves. The Herero woman narrates the atrocities committed by the colonizers on the Nama and Herero people in 1904-1908. The video plunges us into Namibian landscapes, indifferent to human tragedy.<\/p>\n

Both works foreground involuntary memory, and the way that unresolved trauma breaks out in everyday engagements. They show the extent to which German colonial guilt has not been dealt with by those who have inherited it. Through their work, each artist interrogates German historical memory and the Romantic tradition that sustains it.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is curated by Sarah Hegenbart, Vid Simoniti and Adina Drinceanu, and produced by Valorizzazioni Culturali, in co-operation with the National Art Gallery of Namibia and Filmgalerie 451.<\/p>\n

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UNRECOUNTED: Historical Amnesia in Germany and Namibia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Palazzo Pisani (Conservatorio), Sestiere di San Marco, 2810, Venezia
\nNearest Vaporetto stop: Accademia or Giglio
\nDirections to access: Campo St Stefano
\nShowing: 4-9 May 2015
\nOpening hours:\u00a0 10h-18h
\nArtist and curator talk on 8 May at 11am<\/p>\n

Facebook: facebook.com\/unrecounted<\/a>
\nWeb: www.unrecounted.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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