Geheime Lieferketten – Vom African Terminal zur Goldraffinerie

In the organizer's words:

Secret supply chains - from the African Terminal to the gold refinery

At the African Terminal, new Hamburg residents from Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria organized maritime trade between Hamburg and West Africa together with cultural workers. As both a business school and an artistic intervention, the terminal quickly came under pressure from the racist police violence in St. Pauli.

But work continues in secret: In cooperation with the Serwaa Kesse Girls Senior High School in Duayaw Nkwanta (Ghana), Idona Asamoah, Joseph Sam Essandoh and the geheimagentur collective set up an alternative gold refinery. The aim is to establish an alternative gold supply chain in which gold end products and the corresponding profits are returned to the communities that suffer from the consequences of mining.

With regard to its port, Hamburg often describes itself as the "gateway to the world". But who is the gateway open to, and what worlds open up beyond its gates? On this evening, we will explore alternative supply chains, talk about repression and police violence, design new futures for the port and look for other approaches to world trade.

Participants:

Members of African Terminal, created as part of the artistic project FREE PORT BAAKENHÖFT

Idona Asamoah is an artist, photographer, curator and founding member of Nine.875 e. V. He is involved with Then and now Contemporary Africa Art Hamburg, among others. With his exhibition "Moving Bridges: SOUTHnorth" and the upcoming project "The Gold Refinery", he dealt with the effects of gold mining.

The artist collective geheimagentur is committed to the right to port, feminist seafaring and decolonial supply chains. The performances of geheimagentur create a different reality on a small scale and open up escape routes from the economies of scarcity.

Moderation: Canê Çağlar is a political educator, moderator, doctoral candidate and educational scientist. Her focus is on structural discrimination, decolonization and educational justice.

The event is part of the Decolonize Trade series, in which we want to make decolonial perspectives on the economy and trade visible.
Registration: https://eveeno.com/goldraffinerie