207 Years Ago I Would Have Been Standing In The Amphitheater

This lecture ritual is a multi-sensory meditation bridging intersectional feminism, decoloniality, crafts, and digital technologies. Central questions are: Who writes History? How biased is scientific research? And which parts of the history of science have been erased to polish the image of some scientists or render others invisible? Traveling in time and space, Amoussouvi will touch upon digital colonialism, the story of Sara Baartman, personal narratives, and the chemistry, ritualism, and planetary history of cacao. 

Aouefa Amoussouvi’s program for The Curator’s Suitcase revolves around digital technologies, collective healing, and the maintenance of transgenerational memories. Over the course of three weeks, Amoussouvi will host three encounters with Berlin-based artists and invite audiences to explore the blurry boundaries between art and craft, rituals and technologies, body and mind, human and non-human, History and microhistory.

In English