Brought it back to the part about brought back. To. The black lives matter new name to new migratory flows european colonialism has been seen to stage centuries of european imperialism still impacting on the modern world but this legacy is often completely missing from political discourse how deeply our western societies themselves rooted in colonialism. What are the questions we need to be asking for once its responded. Images of people under colonial rule objectified by the white king with a few brush strokes american artist Raj Kumar Carlo reinvents these photos and many other. d she mean so when you think saw the size of a white european view of the world and the way so many in the west see history. I work very fast i work very intuitively and i just let the images kind of come out and often what happens is that theres a kind of funny or violent. Pushback to the image. A nameless burmese girl with a taste for revenge. A woman in india we having claws for a superpower. So it seems islanders uniting in solidarity. With photographs taken by for europeans in the 19th and 20th centuries russia come out of colorado has been free claiming them for 20 years so the city still shaped how people view each other even today. These images exert power and they still exert power over my life how i see myself and how i see others and i think thats true for every everyone and so why these images can still exert this influence is what interested in exploring like how does power work how does power work. And why do those images still affect how people see. Colors says she feels less like a foreigner here in her adopted home berlin than she did in california where she was born to indian parents. I actually see myself as equal parts. So for me it was always rooted in this perspective that i am american and its from the lens of being a person of color in the u. S. But also being an american so having the. History and legacy as part of my identity and these were always a starting point for me that understand. And keep cool. In history. In the rest of the world. Kahlo has reclaimed hundreds of photos from this book the peoples of the earth originally published in 1902 as an Academic Work she sees it as more of a collection of colonial fairy tales she dissects them and overlays them with new content laden with irony and political commentary. Gaskins are futuristic aeronauts and a persian dervish is lesser. Its also about the type of representation where people are pictured so that their humanity is no purse thing that you encounter when you look at their pictures and for me the projects all my projects are kind of bringing this humanity about. The series do you know what our names theres a similar act of rehabilitation based on images of womens bodies from the same book stereotyped for ethnographic research. A lot of these original images the women were without hair without close the eyes were focused there was like so little representation of their humanity or their dignity or their beauty the painting for me was a type of care i started to give them makeup i started to give them a modern hairstyle i started to give them clothes. And they suddenly started to have an identity and dignity that was taken from that original photograph. Her latest project focuses on how the media portrays people who fled their homes compared to more privileged travelers painted on to page of an expedition reports filed by wilfred facet progeny of a British Colonial dynasty. For me wilford this is your symbolize kind of everything i hate. And. Big thing to say like he is aristocratic british and who traveled tribal people in saudi arabia and hes considered hero by everyone in the world he gets to define what history is he gets to say what is the what and people listen and then on the other and the other spectrum of this travel. Is the refugee and the refugee is passed all the job they are criminalized and their fear. Raj kumar colored counters this image with portraits of people looking from the pages of fence sitters travel. She uses colonial era photographs to tell stories about the press. The question should be what is colonialism not rate so its like if you think about environmental. Catastrophe the environment right now if you think about borders if you think about migration if you think about military occupations everything is conditioned by colonial histories and policies and they continue. Portrait subjects gaze out of this world with confidence. For me beauty is very important on the protests its about my own sense of empowerment and then also its about giving agency to the people that are part of its a kind of redistribution of power. Should be a city in the north of england to me is when johnny pitts grew up. A journalist Television Presenter and photographer his mother was from a want with in class family and his father was an African American so musician gets book afro pin traces his journey through black europe to uncover a lot european identities that go beyond cliche. You either get images of black people in tower blocks and hoodies looking like theyre violent or you get images of black people or sports stars and smiling or like at festivals or carnivals and how in foreign parts but you dont often see the inbetween this of things the banality the everydayness i want to work commute i want to people on the metro. Going going to pick the kids up from school to get a kind of every day black experience that kind of tries to normalise rather than exact to size blackness in your. Field of journey ph travel to produce and brussels on to and stand there live in stockholm i must say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds is the son of an africanamerican he experienced Structural Racism 1st chance but he knows that his experiences are different from those of many other black britons. While my dad was brought to this very house you know the neighbors would say oh thats ritchie the american the entertainer there was a kind of romance about it there was something that was exotic about him so people would look at him and after think about British Colonialism so thats a very different experience of course the black community is aware here who who have this shared history who tangled up in colonialism. Journey pits tells us about the effects of imperialism on black people in europe the legacy of colonialism and what drew him to back through the continent i did start to know is a rising racism and it troubled me and i start to know its a kind of insularity that is taking place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. That is leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. And the black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. And the notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i try to fit afro solidly on to something the more it fell apart and what is afro paean isnt something that actually exists or is it a construct its definitely a construct i dont want to say exactly what the word if it resonates if you feel like you want something that can explain a kind of. Pull or listen in a single word than you might flock to and thats what happened in very quickly the community emerged around this word and i think thats something the the black community in europe havent had historically in the same way that the Africanamerican Community of you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism different paean into it stories of the people pits meets on his journey with the history of european colonialism sleight of atrocities committed on africans it is still often shrouded in silence today that it was the genocide people trying to buy imperial german troops against a number of people in present day new media. Germans often seem to deny or even suppress their the history of colonialism was that your impression i find that there is a bit of kind of historical amnesia about german colonialism if you think of the where africa was carved up it was actually in berlin africa was called the people across europe got together in berlin to decide which parts of africa they would choose for themselves which is why the continent of africa is full of the natural Straight Lines that were drawn by somebody in europe on a rule and said well take that part you know and so i think there is a great forgetting all across the continent not just in germany i think one of the places that really shocked me is belgium because you know of course belgian colonialism was a particularly very kind of colonialism that maimed massacred more than 10000000 congolese. Ringback d you have countries like belgium justify you know treating people in such and you mean and cruel way one of the things that really bothered me about found in belgium was was finding a book called center in congo and i was a big fan of tintin growing up i watched the cartoons and i read the books what scared me seeing this edition of tintin in congo that was used as propaganda for belgian colonialism. So you had this notion that belgian colonialism was a kind of force for good was a benevolent force that was providing infrastructure for these these lazy or inept africans when of course the real reason they were in belgium was because they were exploits in the ivory and the robot you know during the Industrial Revolution ringback. What would it take responsibility i guess in a political sense where theres a conversation about reparations which im completely on board with i dont see why black communities shouldnt receive money for for. You know the things that create a system that still places at the bottom i think there needs to be a level of honesty and i think it does start with teaching colonialism in schools when im criticizing europe when im criticizing this country our europe to be a better place i want to take part in europe. I want britain to be a better place im fighting for this country but maybe not in the way that people traditionally fought for it which is you know to keep. Prejudices in place. Johnny its vision a europe that confronts its colonial past head on and stops marginalizing black people. Many valuable artifacts from african countries are held in european museums in fact the treasures are here testifies to a colonial past and triggers modern day controversy should they be repatriated and what context can european museums show them today. When we go to those we look at those object. Like a disney vacation thing. I think institutions any and. Whole global north africa a conservative that means they dont want to change that hope this is not because they. Take the lens noise museum it holds the famous bust of now for t. T. Which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year for close to a century egyptians have been demanding her return without success so how can these art collections be freed from their colonial context and made accessible to everyone artists nor al badri and John Nikolai Mehlis published this 3 d. Scan of national t. V. Online without the museums permission. As long as not just the physical artifacts but also the. Kind of narrative around it because then you can decide. For example. With the data in the Public Domain berlin state museums lost their monopoly over this cultural treasure at least digitally now anyone with a 3 d. Printer can make their own net for t. V. One replica now was buried in the egyptian desert as a kind of symbolic restitution. That actually matter when all. Material objects are in another country and completely decontextualized and actually. Violently. So it doesnt matter where the object is who gets to tell the story the museum is also the producer of the transmission of the museum has. Publishing the data set on a Public Domain with an effort. With other projects very important that now reality because everyone can actually. Talk about it discuss it. With the script data 3 d. Technology and Artificial Intelligence badri begin to reconstruct the history of mesopotamia to do this she had to collect thousands of images of real objects she managed to get access to the databases of european museums through the digital back door. As long as. Kind of just themselves i think they are not relevant to meaning for the world and they dont connect to whats going on today whereas i think the objects and their stories too are totally and through this digital what i call techno heritage its to reappropriate the meaning of representation and. I mean it. Nor al badri images have special meaning because they represent the Cultural Heritage of her fathers homeland. Long admission is one of the few works i do that actually has a very biographical component i would say because im half iraqi its a country which i could never visit its a little bit of research or like how did they look like and can be recreate some things without just copying it but generating completely new objects and thats important especially in a region which is nowadays iraq where everything usually is just destroyed and looted away project fossil futures also employs Digital Technologies to tackle the issue of stolen Cultural Heritage and public property and southern tanzania many dinosaur bones were unearthed during the german colonial domination tons of these valuable fossils were taken abroad. It was the sports and tender group where the dinosaur which is today centerpiece of the Natural History museum in berlin was excavated and. Exploited today it is a Multinational Company is the exact same spot and of course the people there are. Great and i totally understand this and so for all of my projects i go to this place and talk to the people one of these places is berlins girl its all part tore us from drug dealing many of the dealers here fled from Subsaharan Africa they lack work permits and prospects. Is planning an event where these men will paddle art drugs. I think its like a colonial situation and real time here what we can see. And thats constantly violating the right. Like body and my proposition here are death up. And if a substance for imagining another world. Nor a very firmly believes that the power of art can break down colonial structures and the inequality theyve created. Were. Assertive electronic beat. After a break out. Produced this track in cameroon. The same time. She says women there were treated with more respect before the europeans gave. Me. Such an impact but also people mentality they were raising also the culture of the people. Of a black male attention 1st century i couldnt. Trust i try you know you. Know was 10 when she left cameron and came to germany along with her 2 brothers. Their mother wanted to do her doctorate at a german university. Here it was a dream. Child white culture is. Everywhere its the norm. So when you know as a 10 year old that youre going to europe its like the sugar candy place. But in a small town in southern germany she was the only black girl around she experienced the burden of being a mother of racism they dont teach you about corners and in terms of where the we sources come from and how did well come to europe and such an amount it came from their colonies and its really insane to me to be in this world and go to school so many years when a teacher who supposedly about the world youre going to be living and leave out this huge part of history. When she was 20 also decided to return to cameroon in search of her roots. And it was really researching where im coming from where i wore my in terms of legacy and history but i. And it was really sad also to see that my parents were little connection to even what was before them. She wanted to establish a musical connection to geoff you know the well welcome home is about family and all its strength was. When i went to come when i was playing the guitar and i was saying and i got in cameroon and just realized that. The good how to live in is not loud enough you can hold of. Europe is very close. In your supercar your own this. Its like when the general and so it didnt months. She changed styles experimented with electronic beats and made sound collages discovering the world a new in the process. And just a mix of african reality in the digital form basically but. Now spends most of her time in germany she lives with her young daughter in berlin but africa is a strong part of the mix on this track she sample speeches by kwame and crew the 1st leader of an independent gonna. And mixes them with bits of dialogue she recorded during taxi rides around cameroon. Now. She no longer feels the need to enlighten germans who blank on their countrys colonial past in germany i have conversations more with people like jimmy dean. In berlin or gets a taste of home at this cameroonian restaurant these days her search for identity has faded a bit into the background. The mixture of the to make a world for me because going back and i. Go back to. The bank. Which wasnt true but i guess i needed to do that to figure out. So at the end of the day create. That mixture in my everyday life right through because its just very much healthy its a healthy balance. And thats something she hopes to pass on to her daughter. What i discovered is. That important its ok. To live in that space not knowing uncertainty while enjoying the journey to maybe be calling closer to war and. So these berlin street names that are a relic of germanys colonial past dont discourage elsom both she says the future of the streets lies in the hands of the citys black communities. The past can help the future mapped out 21 song on the next time. Whats going on here. A house of your very own from a printer. Computer games that are healing. My dog needs electricity. Shift explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds. Just living in the Digital World shift. In 15 minutes on d w. Es and not the mounties and the origin of garbage everywhere. Sinopoli says enough already the environmental activist and her fellow campaigners travel around the parts of tellico educating and advising the boy doesnt meet the clean up because they are fighting exactly the type of trash. In 30 minutes on team w. In the height of climate change. Africas most of. Whats in store for such good news to come for the future comes. To construct a mega city the multimedia insight could conjure. Them. Sometimes. Sense none. Of this. What connects people the stronger the most separates the band the most so strong conviction off each one down to a and we celebrated the 30th anniversary of his minification october 3rd on di da. Well you. Know the break is over and the new zealand is cheap. And the most stunning summer blend the british history. Is. Blowing. The above normal. In this league started september 18th on g. W. The turf. Play a little odd place. This is big any news live from the more mass protests and belarus present office the activists call and not the day of demonstrations out of place
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