Decolonial Studies Program (DSP)

with PÁVEL AGUILAR, DANIELLE ALMEIDA, ANARCHIVO SIDA, AIMAR ARRIOLA, PALOMA AYALA, PAULA BAEZA PAILAMILLA, ADRIANA DOMINGUEZ, ESPECTROS DE LO URBANO, NANCY GARÍN, MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ, MAURIZIO LAZZARATO, DANIEL LOICK, JOANNE RODRIGUEZ, SARAH FATIMA SCHÜTZ, ANTOINE SILVESTRE, VANESSA EILEEN THOMPSON, MARGARITA TSOMOU

The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) is an education-oriented series of events with a focus on post-colonial, de-colonial and anti-colonial studies. The DSP sees itself as a discursive framework and accompanying program to the major exhibition projects of the Akademie der Künste der Welt (Academy of the Arts of the World, ADKDW) and as a place of its own knowledge production. The content focus from 2022 to 2024 is the investigation of structural colonialism on a global as well as local level and its effects on forms of government, economy and environment, knowledge and knowledge transfer.

In fall 2022, the DSP launches with three event formats: In the joint discourse series On Violence, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and ADKDW will engage in an examination of contemporary expressions of violence together with invited philosophers. A Reading Group allows for a deepening of the content through the joint reading and discussion of Franz Fanon's The Damned of the Earth and the texts of the online lectures of the On Violence series.

An exhibition seminar explores the exhibition HERE AND NOW. Anticolonial Interventions at the Museum Ludwig (08 10 2022 - 05 02 2023), which aims to open up other perspectives of knowledge on the permanent collection of the house. The artists themselves will have their say and enter into a dialogue with the visitors. With the exhibition seminar, ADKDW invites participants to intervene themselves and continue the dialogue through #MLInterventions on social media.

Participation in the events of the Decolonial Studies Program is open to all interested parties. Registration and further information at decolonialstudies@adkdw.org