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The Roots of Our Hands Deep as Revolt. Entangled Colonialities of the Green

Nyabinghi Lab

Historically, non-white and non-Western voices have always been excluded in discourses on environmentalism, sustainability, and eco-movements. By addressing the colonial entanglements of the environmental movement in Germany, Nyabinghi Lab looks at the history of these exclusions, challenges the narrative of the human / nature binary, and connects environmental discourses to anticolonial struggles. Through performances, lectures, and discussions, artists and curators explore how the colonial roots of the ecological movement have remained a white spot despite profoundly shaping environmental discourses, politics, and practices to this day. How can decolonial and queer ecologies become sites of possibilities for alternative imaginaries of nature, sustainability, mutuality, Blackness, (non)humanity, and ecological responsibility?

Dates

Funded by the TURN2 Fund of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). In Cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Chimurenga and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. Part of the exhibition “The Roots of Our Hands Deep as Revolt: Entangled Colonialities of the Green” at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (18.11.2023–14.01.2024).