Unlearning Monumentality

In the organizer's words:

(How) can digital interventions recontextualize colonial and nationalist monuments?

Venue: HGB, Room 2.34

Organized as part of (Un)Learning Digitalities - Program on the Practice and Theory of the Digital. The project is co-financed by the European Union and co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament.

The evening event invites you to an open, collective discussion on how to deal with colonial and nationalist monuments in public spaces in Leipzig. The starting point is the colonial stone and the question of how digital technologies, in particular augmented reality and 3D practices, can be used to irritate, expand or retell dominant historical narratives.

Artists, researchers and activists will contribute short impulses that open up perspectives on memory politics, visibility, power structures and decolonial (digital) practices.

Participating actors:
Eliza Goldox, Tania Kolbe (AG Postkolonial / Re-Telling Doaa), Angelika Waniek, Julia Kurz (Umräumen e.V.), Mikala Hyldig Dal and Sven Bergelt

This will be followed by a joint exchange with the audience, in which the contributions will be further considered, questioned and connected with each other. The event understands monuments as contested and changeable archives.