Ausstellungseröffnung: Muzungu Tribes von Teddy Mazina

In the organizer's words:

Opening on 24.09. at 18:30 with a lecture performance by Teddy Mazina followed by a discussion

On February 4, 1972, customs officials in Brussels confiscated several crates destined for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at Zaventem Airport. The police were alerted. The boxes contained hundreds of documents, photos of corpses of European people, morpho-anthropometric records and measurement data, laboratory vials, X-rays and much more. During the investigation, the police discovered a secret laboratory at 22 Rue des Goujons in Anderlecht, a municipality in the south of Brussels. Residents reported the comings and goings of several young people of African origin and their Belgian friends. According to the neighbors, "suspicious rites" were being practiced in an apparently abandoned old warehouse. The residents had already made several complaints about the nuisance caused by 'black music' and suspicious nocturnal activities. On the evening of February 20, a police operation at the warehouse led to the arrest of four people. A small group of African scholarship holders had set up what appeared to be a secret "science lab". There they measured and photographed the "white bodies" - as they called them - of their friends. Several hundred pictures were confiscated.

With this exhibition, Teddy Mazina gives an insight into his discoveries and research into the material of the reported "case". The exhibition shows some of the confiscated images and additional archive material. In a lecture performance, which is part of the exhibition opening, Teddy Mazina will present his work on this subject over the last few years.

After the opening, the exhibition will run from September 25 - December 8. The exhibition can be viewed by appointment.
Registration at: birgit.goetz@theaterimdepot.de