“SEEN, UNSEEN”
SATURDAY, 10TH OF JANUARY
11:00 am – doors open
2:00 pm – artist talks and performances
4:00 pm – LIA talks with:
Christine Fischer (Curator and researcher at the Grassi museum)
Mathieu Wijdeven (Theater and opera maker)
Mirya Gerardu (Cultural Officer for Visual Arts, The Netherlands Embassy)
Raoul de Jong (Journalist and writer)
Anna-Louise Rolland (Founder and director of LIA) & Marina Díaz Molina (LIA programme coordinator)
7 pm – doors close
Thanks to the support of the German Foreign Federal Office and its research programme on Germany`s colonial past, artists Lilian Munuo (Tanzania), Nolwazi Mbali Mahlangu (South Africa), Ilimani de los Andes (Nicaragua) as well as Mars Rodriguez (USA) and Hal Osawa (Japan) were invited to reappraisal Germany`s colonial history. We are grateful to the support of the Grassi Museum of Ethnology Leipzig enabling the artists access to see and work with the collections in Leipzig and Herrnhut, where we visited the Moravian Church, researched in the museum and Unitätsarchiv in cooperation with a very scholared team. We thank everyone one for their kindness to share and improve our state of knowledge about the missionary work of the Moravian Church. During the Spinnerei Winter Gallery Tour the artists will search for answers within performances, video and painting presentations. They reflect and engage with the Leipzig audience in many different ways from humorous encounters being lost in translation to sharing deep conflicts about the impact immigration has and had over centuries.
Thanks to the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands Berlin we were able to invite Raoul de Jong and Mathieu Wijdeven expanding the topic of the Moravian Church to Surinam.
