Campus #6 Workshops

Workshop 1

The Power of Images: Film as postcolonial encounter

Workshop leader: Leila Fatima Keita

Fr 28.10.2022 14-18h
Sat 29.10.2022 14-18h

In the studio of the Lenbachhaus

Languages: German and English

During the colonial era, people from the global South were exhibited in the Western world like exotic animals. All history?

Diversity has now become a brand - People of Color are portrayed as cool in advertising and film. Issues like slavery and colonialism are rehashed by white institutions like Hollywood.

While this may seem thoroughly positive at first glance, a second, deeper, more emphatic look raises critical questions:

To what extent are “the others” not also exhibited here, to what extent is the privileged West not “exalted” here?

In this workshop we will work out how film reproduces colonial and neocolonial narratives - and how colonial stereotypes can be partly overcome.

“I am in a constant learning process myself and I am looking forward to a collective and interdisciplinary collaboration. Film for me is self-empowerment, film for me is political, film for me is not an I but a we! - I am looking forward to you” (Leila Fatima Keita).

Workshop 2

WACHSBATIK- WORKSHOP – WAXPRINTS

Workshopleader: Anne Seiler, Sarah Sigmund

Fr 28.10.2022 14-18h
Sat 29.10.2022 14-18h

Malsaal of the Münchner Kammerspiele

Languages: German and English

Wax batik is a traditional craft technique that probably originated in Indonesia. But evidence of reserve technique can also be found in other Asian and African regions. Wax batik is a reserve technique, a dyeing process used on textiles. Hot wax is applied to cotton fabric, which prevents the absorption of color during dip dyeing. At the end, the wax is removed by heat. In this workshop we will focus on the history of Indonesian wax batik and its path to industrially produced wax prints, and especially on the practical teaching of the wax batik technique.

Participants can create a wax batik according to their own design.

Art historian Sarah Sigmund will give a lecture on the history and present of waxprints: “Waxprints as Work-Fabric. Textiles in the Field of Hybridity and Otherness”.

Workshop 3

Do statues dream too?

Workshop leader: Dimitri Fagbohoun

Fri 28.10.2022 14-18h
Sat 29.10.2022 14-18h

In the studio of the Lenbachhaus

Language: english

The workshop will focus on the collections of the “Museum Five Continents” (photographs, artworks and objects from Africa).

The idea is to visit the museum, make a selection of works and work with photocopies to create collages and interventions on the collected photographs. This work will be based on a retrospective and critical reflection on how these objects were collected, what they bear witness to, and how they relate to current contemporary issues. Ultimately, the question will be how the function of the art objects has changed and, more importantly, how we can define their future (inside or outside the collections).

Visiting the Museum Five Continents
Interlocutor: Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer

Fri 28.10.2022 10:30-12:30am

The Africa collection of Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich is one of the most important African collections in Europe. As Head of Collections, Stefan Eisenhofer sheds light on ongoing provenance research projects at the museum and the impact of current restitution debates on museum collections.

Visit to the Lenbachhaus’ two current exhibitions.
Interlocutors: Karin Althaus and Melanie Vietmeier

Saturday 29.10.2022 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

“Art and Life”

The project is dedicated to the question of how biographies and contemporary history are connected, as well as the history of artworks created between 1918 and 1955 until today.

“Etel Adnan”

The work of the poet, journalist, painter and philosopher, who spent her life between Lebanon, France and California, combines very different art forms, media, languages and cultures.