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> June 2023

Double Bind Postcolonial
Critical perspectives on art and cultural education

Postcolonial perspectives in the art world and in cultural education are booming. Yet these concepts are mostly used without a deeper engagement with them. More comprehensive debates around and with theories of postcolonialism are urgently needed, for example, to expose the impositions of dominant Eurocentric exhibition and mediation practices. The contributions to this volume illuminate the responsibilities of art and art education from an explicitly postcolonial perspective. The focus is on the "double bind" that pervades the field and manifests itself in a dilemmatic position between subversion and affirmation. In doing so, discriminatory practices in the field are unmasked as well as an (auto)critical theory development is advanced.

> August 2023

Forming Hegemony
Pedagogical Connections to Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci is considered the most cited Italian author in the humanities and social sciences since Machiavelli. The examination of Gramsci not only shapes cultural studies, but is also the basis for perspectives of critical pedagogy. This is also increasingly true for the German-language discourse, where a systematic reception of Gramsci's work in educational science has so far been lacking.

This volume brings together current transdisciplinary and transnational contributions and is intended as an impetus for further thinking - in a Gramscian way.

> May 2023

Book launch: Freund*innenschaft. Dreiklang einer politischen Praxis.

The event will take place as a hybrid event. During the evening, the authors will present the book and their ideas and look forward to a discussion with the audience.

> March 2023

Just stay composed.

Two places. Straddled between two societies, two forces, connected with friends, languages, sounds, tenderness across half the globe - on good days the I floats. On bad ones, the burden of the situation and the coldness of the surrounding society are unbearable.

Just stay composed. Do not pose. Just stay composed.

> February 2023

Zwischenwelt, In-between World. In 1986, the Muhammad Iqbal Monument was erected in Munich, commemorating the poet, philosopher and mentor of the independent postcolonial state of Pakistan. Iqbal, who completed his doctorate in Munich in 1907, lived in Bavaria for many years and died in Pakistan in 1938.
In 1962, Gani Bilir arrived in Kiel as a so-called Gastarbeiter. His payslips, which are visible in the film, are discovered by the filmmaker in the family archive. They are a document of the inhumane working conditions of migrant workers and their lack of recognition as humans in Germany.
A variety of places, moments, and snatches of historical memory are woven in the film into a particular decolonial view of our time. The telling of history and the politics of memory in Germany are oriented to a white dominant society. The longings, experiences and struggles of Black people, People of Color, Indigenous people and migrants are marginalised. Three sisters, Saboura, Basira and Kirat, gather at historically significant sites in Bavarian history. They approach these stories with their own biographies and the sculptures by the artist Ahu Dural. As poets, the children of migrant workers, thinkers they stand for the many stories of resistance and biographies of the in-between world.

> January 2023

In the Green Salon of the Volksbühne, Bahar Oghalai, Veronika Patočková, Sabina Salimovska, Hila Latifi and Leila Haghighat (moderator) talk about education and resistance. Trovania Delille makes a performance.

https://youtu.be/dFtUNC93mxE

> January 2022

Carolina Tamayo Rojas and Trovania Delille talk about education under postcolonial conditions at Widerstand und Widerrede.

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