What role do major planetary issues such as COVID, the climate crisis, resource scarcity and the myths underlying these phenomena – e.g., development, civilization, freedom – play and how are they negotiated in African and Afro-diasporic perspectives?
The vulnerability of African and Afrodiasporic societies has been and continues to be addressed in artistic and philosophical works. What, though, is the place of healing and practices of healing, given that De-vulnerability opens up new spaces for re-imagining what it means to heal.
AFROLUTION 2022 looks beyond the hardship in contemporary life in order to emphasize practices of de-vulnerability, resilience and empowerment. It centers the ways in which individuals and collectivities are leaning into material and symbolic resources necessary for survival and revitalization. The festival explores the practices of healing, reparation, restitution, rehabilitation, reconstruction through which communities express agency in their lived experience. In their abundance, they are the expression of a resonant cry for the inhabiting and shaping of the world. The festival will explore these forms of recuperation, the vital resources and energies that situate themselves within the memories and histories embedded in language and ideas about life, the world, and humankind today.
Berlin, the capital of Germany, is particularly relevant for these conversations, given the growing number of civil society (and increasingly state) initiatives taking up issue with Germany’s participation in European colonialism and the question of a (de)colonial culture of remembrance.
Each One Teach One (EOTO), the Berlin-based platform for empowerment and education by and for people of African descent, is the hosting organization, located in the heart of the »African Quarter«, the former colonial district of Berlin.
www.eoto-archiv.de