This is the script of a lecture by Erik Stein held on the occasion of a workshop on the digital archive in Dakar in January 2023. For the French version, see below. Read more
Session #2 focusses on the intersection of landscape an memory and nature as an archive. Chai Tayiana Maina's input is about the origins of place names in Kenya, the poet hn. lyonga reads his poem "Memories of Trees", Neo Musangi talks about dealing with the Nairobi National Park in her lecture… Read more
We are happy to announce the latest TALKING OBJECTS LAB residencies at at Musée Théodore Monod with Élise Fitte-Duval and Henri Sagna, who will both work with the collection of the museum for the coming months. Read more
Video Documentation of Session #1: Harriet Chebet Ng’ok, Njoki Ngumi & Patrick Maundu. TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Goethe Morph* Iceland. The three-day performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 took place as part of the festival Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House in Reykjavik on September 13th -… Read more
Panel Talks, Discussions and Artistic Interventions Friday, February 10, 2023, 4pm – 9pm in cooperation with Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Nigeria Read more
What is the potential of technology for African museums? How can a digital collection contribute to the mediation, re-evaluation, dissemination and research of objects? How to digitize, technically? And how to digitize, aesthetically? Read more
We are happy to announce the latest TALKING OBJECTS LAB residencies at at Musée Théodore Monod with Élise Fitte-Duval and Henri Sagna, who will both work with the collection of the museum for the coming months. Read more
Awakening, nostalgia and nationalism, Orientalism and the mystification of nature - How did Romantic Europe look at the world? And how does Romanticism shape Europe's self-image today? Read more
Patrick Muandu spoke on the occasion of the workshop ANTI-COLONIAL APPROACHES TO NATURE in Nairobi: a one-day workshop on 15 July 2022 on "Decolonizing Nature" with 15 experts from various fields, discussing about agriculture, food and related health systems, seed archives, climate change and… Read more
Interview with Ann Moraa of LAM Sisterhood on the occasion of the workshop ANTI-COLONIAL APPROACHES TO NATURE in Nairobi: one-day workshop on 15 July 2022 on "Decolonizing Nature" with 15 experts from various fields, discussing about agriculture, food and related health systems, seed archives,… Read more
PUMZI (2009) by Kenian filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu was screened as part of the UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 film program on Sep 15, 2022 at Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House Iceland. Read more
TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Goethe Morph* Iceland. The three-day performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 will take place as part of the festival Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House in Reykjavik on September 13th - 15th, 2022. Read more
Assaf Gruber's film „The Conspicuous Parts“ will be screened as part of UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 – Decolonizing Nature at Goethe Morph* Iceland on Sep 15, 2022. Read more
WILD RELATIVES by Jumana Manna will be screened as part of UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 Decolonizing Nature, Sep 13-15 at Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House. The program on Sep 14 & 15 will be live-streamed from Reykjavik via the website of Nordic House. Read more
„Theatrum Botanicum“ by Uriel Orlow encompasses three individual short films and looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics at large through film, photography, installation and sound. Read more
Ibrahima Thiam in conversation with El Hadji Malick Ndiaye Read more
One-day workshop on 15 July 2022 on "Decolonizing Nature" with 15 experters from various fields to discuss about agriculture, food and related health systems, seed archives, climate change and landscpae as an archive of memories. Read more
The three-day performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 will take place as part of the festival Goethe Morph* Iceland at Nordic House in Reykjavik on September 13th - 15th, 2022. Read more
Artist Residency /Presentation & Lecture Performance with Ibrahima Thiam on May 26th 2022 at Musée Théodore Monod in Dakar, Senegal. Read more
TALKING OBJECTS LAB is invited to create a Temporary Monument at Kottbusser Tor, Berlin – using the space of an advertising column. APRIL 26 - MAY 5, 2022. Read more
What can knowledge be today? TALKING OBJECTS LAB is invited to create a Temporary Monument at Kottbusser Tor, Berlin – using the space of an advertising column. APRIL 26 - MAY 5, 2022. Read more