Walk & Talk
Palimpsests. Layers. Mazes.
On Navigating Memoryscapes and Embracing Opacity
by Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard & Vitjitua Ndjiharine
Join us in a conversation about relation »chance« encounters, paths, retours and detours with Vitjitua Ndjiharine, an artist from whose work intersects lived experience in both Namibia and Germany, and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard a curator from Germany who was changed by Namibia. Touching on topics addressed in their recent collaboration during the 2022 Dekoloniale Festival and more, here the two meet up again where it all began to exchange, update, review and navigate Vitjitua’s latest oeuvre.
DekolonialeMemory Culture in the City takes Berlin as an example to investigate how a metropolis, its institutions and its society can be examined for (post-)colonial impacts. It is a joint project of Berlin Postkolonial e. V., EachOne Teach One (EOTO) e. V., Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD-Bund) e. V. and the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin.
Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard is a German editor, curator, activist and public intellectual. She works as co-director and artistic director of the community-based empowerment platform and library Each One Teach One (EOTO) in Berlin.
Vitjitua Ndjiharine, (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Namibia. She develops strategies of deconstructing and re-contextualizing the pedagogical function of texts and images found within colonial archives.