Budge Johnstone, Ama Josephine (2023) The Roots of Our Hands Deep as Revolt. Entangled Colonialities of the Green. [Show/Exhibition]
| Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition |
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| Creators: | Budge Johnstone, Ama Josephine |
| Description: | An exhibition by the Nyabinghi Lab in cooperation with the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) and Chimurenga (Cape Town) supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation Environmentalism, sustainability, and other green practices have historically marginalized non-white and non-Western voices and realities. The project “The Roots of Our Hands Deep as Revolt”: Entangled Colonialities of the Green explores the history of these exclusions, questions the colonial narrative of the human/nature duality and connects environmental discourses with anti-colonial struggles. The emergence of environmental protection, vegetarianism, organic farming, nudism, naturopathy and the life reform movement (ca. 1880 - 1933) in general was closely linked to colonial efforts, a fact that remains a blind spot in research today. While “oneness with nature” was seen as a criterion of “backwardness” for BiPoc in the colonies, the life reformers simultaneously postulated a “return to nature” as a futuristic and avant-garde undertaking in the metropolis that freed (white) bodies from the “ constraints of civilization”. Through exhibitions, performances, discursive programs and a publication, the project examines how this discrepancy has profoundly shaped environmental discourses, policies and practices to this day. It also illuminates the ways in which anti-colonial and decolonial struggles have challenged the human/nature binary and the associated notion of the relationship between the human body, nature and “civilization”. The invited artists and participants explore Black and radical decolonial/queer ecologies as sites of possibility for alternative conceptions of nature, for future visions of sustainability, reciprocity, Blackness, (non-)humanity and ecological responsibility. |
| Official Website: | https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/nyabinghi-lab-praesentiert-black-ecology-resistance-poetics-and-imaginaries-1 |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
| Date: | 2023 |
| Related Websites: | https://www.artrabbit.com/events/the-roots-of-our-hands-deep-as-revolt-entangled-colonialities-of-the-green |
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| Event Location: | Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin) |
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin) 17 November 2023 14 January 2024 |
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2026 14:12 |
| Last Modified: | 29 May 2026 14:12 |
| Item ID: | 26049 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/26049 |
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