Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States, asking: How do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform, and why? Her work has shown at the Museum Folkwang, the Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery and won awards at the XPOSED Queer Film Festival and the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. She has published chapters in: “Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography,” “Censored? Conflicting Concepts of Cultural Heritage,”and “Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island.” Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral candidate in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam, and a Research Associate in the Digital Provenance Lab at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
In this session Nnenna Onuoha describes her practice which spans film and interdisciplinary artistic practice. Her work explores the history of Africans and Black people in the world and is currently centered around German colonial memory and what she has termed “Monumental Silences.” We discuss her rich practice and how being a multi-hyphenate in some spaces can result in multiple competencies being denied or going unrecognized.
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Further links to Nnenna Onuoha’s work: https://nnennaonuoha.com/
Gathering As Praxis 