Magic Mushrooms – Bruce Conner und die Konstruktion des mexikanischen Schamanismus in der US-amerikanischen Gegenkultur
Credit: Roger Heim: Mushroom watercolor
Lecture by Ilka Becker
Braunschweig University of Art
07/11/2014
Workshop Visuelles Dekolonisieren
Conception: Ulrike Bergermann, Nanna Heidenreich
This lecture examines the construction of Mexican shamanism in the U.S. counterculture of the 1960s with a view to the colonial continuities perpetuated in its visual aesthetics and politics of ecstasy.
About the workshop
How has the visible been transformed into what is sayable in coloniality? How does one see, how does one show what is supposed to plausibilise one's own division of the world? And how can one change such images, decolonise the visual, decolonise in a visual way? The workshop is dedicated to the sites of media and artistic postcolonial strategies in film, in museums and on stage. It is about both the critical reading of material legacies of colonialism, such as the artefacts of research trips and so-called "human remains" in museums, which were and are part of a culture of appropriation and exhibition, and about strategies of curating the "art of the others" in museums, galleries or the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. But it is also about the connection of anti-colonial struggles with film/cinema – as in the development of new film languages in a "third" or "militant cinema" or foundations of national (and transnational) film institutes after independence –, about contemporary artistic interventions in colonial archives or the possibilities of decolonising aesthetic procedures.
With: Vaginal Davis, Tobias Nagl, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Christine Hanke, Artefakte (Brigitta Kuster, Dirk Schmiedt, Regina Sarreiter), Storm Janse van Rensburg, Kristin Schulze, Nele Rein, Michaela Ott, Melanie Ulz, Ilka Becker and others.