We are happy to share about an international conference ‘Gardens in transition. Commitments, obligations and practices’ organised by Savvy contemporary in Berlin, curated by a team of curators, including our fellow Billy Fowo, and Sagal Farah, Hajra Haider Karrar, Anna Jäger, Mokia Laisin, Meghna Singh, which will take place on April 26-27.

SAVVY Contemporary’s upcoming artistic program takes colonial heritage and decolonization as facts and practices of transition. Relying on experimentation, the programme TRANSITIONS will show that decoloniality, as the anthropologist Rosalind Morris describes it, immerses us in lifeworlds and artworlds known to be “an incomplete dialectic.” Thereby, we will put an emphasis on deepening the study of decolonization in methodologies and assemblages: the historical and contemporary links in Afro-Asia colonial intricacies and decolonial futures; the theater of developmentalism in the Pacific; and the underrepresented roles of settlement—say Germany’s deep migration history in its neighbouring regions. These co-responding geographies and their geopoetics complicate colonisation and decolonization that may have stagnated in specific discursive milieux.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
26.–27.04.2024

WITH  Ayham Allouch, Ali Bakhtiari with Farshid Mesghali & Ali Akbar Sadeghi, Felisha Carenage & Xavier Robles de Medina, Kamari Clarke, Sarah Imani, Rada Iveković, Savanna Morgan, John Njenga Karugia, Glenda Obermuller, Helena Uambembe, Bodhari Warsame, Mali Wu, Samba Yonga

LANGUAGE The conference takes place in English

FREE ENTRANCE  Donations welcome

ACCESS  SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair
LIVE STREAM via SAVVY's Facebook and Youtube channel

More info here

SAVVY contemporary youtube channel