It civilize admission. Go. Back. To. The black lives matter new mention you migratory flows european colonialism has been center 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 artists respond. Images of people under colonial. Objectified by the white house with a few brush strokes american artist roger carlo reinvents these photos and many others d. She paints are when exhausted sizing white european view of the world and the way so many in the west see history. I work very fast i work very intuitive lee and i just let the images kind of come 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 cloth for a superpower. So it seems islanders uniting in solidarity. Photographs taken by. In the 19th and 20th centuries to come out of colorado has been free claiming them for 20 years she says they 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 in images. And why do those images still affect how people see me. Carlos 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. And i actually feel myself as equal parts. And 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 this imperial history and legacy as part of my identity and that these were always the starting point for me that understand and look 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. Persian dervish is western. Its also about the type of representation where people are pictured so that their humanity is no purse thing 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 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 clothes they were un 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 the original photograph. Her latest project focuses on how the media portrays people who fled their homes compared to more privileged travellers painted on to pages of an expedition report filed by wilfred facet progeny of a British Colonial dynasty. For me wilfrid this is your symbolize kind of everything i hate. And. Big thing to say like he is aristocratic british and who traveled with tribal people in saudi arabia and hes considered it 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 trouble. Is the refugee and the refugee is passed. They are criminalized and they are few years. Raj kumar carlos counters this image with portraits of people looking from the pages of a church travel. She uses colonial era photographs to tell stories about oppression. The question should be what is colonialism not rape so its like if you think about environmental. Catastrophe of 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 the continuous. Portraits. Subjects game is out of this world with no better. For me in beauty a thing for me from a protest its about my own sense of empowerment and then also its about giving even some to the people that are part of our its a kind of redistribution of power. Should be on a city in the north of england is when johnny pitts grew up. A journalist Television Presenter and photographer his mother was from a White Working Class family and his father was an African American so musician gets book afro painted traces his journey through black europe to uncover black 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 have in foreign parts but you dont often see the inbetween this of things the banality the everyday in this. 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 of an exact size blackness in your from sheffield and johnny pitts travel to paris and brussels going to amsterdam to live in stockholm and must say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds as the son of an africanamerican he experiences 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 richie 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. Im enough to 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 petes tells us about the effects of imperialism on black people in europe the legacy of colonialism and want true. Through the continent i did start to know is arising 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 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 the afro paean solidly on to something the more it fell upon what is afro paean is it 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 then 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 god you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism 3 pm in to read stories of the people pits meets on his journey with the history and beauty in colonial ism sleight of atrocities what you peons committed on africans that is still often shrouded in silence today that includes the genocide perpetrated by 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 d you have countries like belgium justify you know treating people in such a inhumane and cruel way one of the things that really bothered me about what found in belgium was was found in a book called 10000 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. What would it take responsibility i guess the 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 i want 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. 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 the 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 the we look at those objects. Like a disney vacation thing. I think institutions and. Whole global north fairly conservative that means they dont want to change their poll position ill. Take programs noise museum that 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 all badri and John Nikolai Mehlis published this 3 d. Scan of national t. V. Online without the museums permission. As long as the control not just the physical artifact but also the digital one you kind of control the narrative around it because then you can decide which research so for example you give it to 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 lies buried in the egyptian desert as a kind of symbolic restitution. That actually matter when all of. Material objects are in another country and completely decontextualized and actually got there violently namely through a colonialist and so it doesnt matter where the object is who gets to tell the story the Imperial Museum of these officers eat the party says of the transmission of the museum has to go now we gained 70 to tell the story publishing that they just sat on the Public Domain with an effort. Without the project thats very important that now the reality is changed because everyone can actually access it remakes and talk about it discuss it. With the help of scrapes 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 those kind of kind of just consider themselves i think theyre not relevant and meaningful in our world and they dont connect to whats going on today whereas i think the objects and their stories too are totally and through this leg digital what i call techno heritage its possible to reappropriate the meaning of representation and. Meaning. Nor how badri the images have special meaning because they represent the Cultural Heritage of her fathers homeland. Vision is one of the few works that actually have 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 for like how did babylon actually 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 looked at the way a 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 the group where the dinosaur which is today the centerpiece of the Natural History museum in berlin was excavated and seen exploited today it is by Multinational Companies the exact same spot and. And of course the people there are great and i totally understand this and so for all of my projects i go to this places and talk to the people who one of these places is a girl its a part of tortillas for 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 a. Situation and a real time here what we can see. And thats. Thing. Like bodies and my proposition here. 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. A sort of electronic beat. After a break out. Produced this track in camera. See. The same time. She says women there were treated with more respect before the europeans came to. Me. Out of. This new cyber for the rights of the know how to find. People. They were raising also the culture of the people. First century. I couldnt swallow my pride trust i track you will you Alison Barlow 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. Coming here it was a dream as a small African Child white culture is on the t. V. Everywhere its the norm with the standard. So when you know as a 10 year old that youre going to europe its like the sugar candy playing. 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 their lives in terms of where the we sources come from and how did well come to europe in such an amount that 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 is going to be living and. Thought this huge part of history. When she was 20 i also decided to return to Cameroon Research program and. It was really researching where im coming from where i wore my in terms of legacy and history. And it was really thought also to see that my parents were little connection to even what was before them. She wanted to establish a musical connection to general bora welcome home is about family and all its strengths and flaws. When i went to cairo i was playing the guitar and i was saying and i got in common and just realised that the good how to live in was not loud enough i couldnt hold on like. Europe is very close. In europe and yet. Its like when the adrenaline so it didnt match the energy. 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 images that will form the sickly 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 Nkrumah 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 jim lee did. And i. Can brylin them bollard 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 2 makes. Because going back to come and. Go back to. The back. Which wasnt true but i guess i needed to do that for myself to figure. So at the end of the day for me to create that that mixture in my everyday. I tried so because its just very much healthy its a healthy balance. And thats something she hopes to pass on to her daughter. What i discovered when they did this is not that important its ok. To live in that space not knowing and uncertainty while enjoying the journey to maybe be calling closer to war you know. So these berlin street names that are a relic of germanys colonial past dont discourage. She says the future of the streets lies in the hands of the citys black communities. The past can help the future not 21. Next time. Why i cant Mother Nature at night artificial light seeks her own way and with brain consequences. Like loosen up a phenomenon of our modern civilization now researchers are looking for ways to reduce the excess of light so that Mother Nature can finally sleep again tomorrow to do. In 30 minutes on d w. The power of influencers and what they mean for democracy. Will come to 6 of our minds session of the global. Influencers have an enormous reach. Now increasingly voicing their opinions about political issues theres a new dynamic is emerging. What does this mean for democracy. 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