Restitution in Conversation: Feminist Perspectives on Restitution Beyond Ownership
Tuli Mekondjo, Hermosa Intervención, and Lisa Hilli
Conversation
Sa., 3.6.2023
14:00
Pavilion (Semra Ertan Garden)
Free entry
In English
Tuli Mekondjo, Hermosa Intervención, and Lisa Hilli deliberate on feminist perspectives on restitution that reimagine it outside of limiting frames of institutional ownership, and the western obsession of preservation. Instead, they consider questions of loss and restoration, memory and recreation, and embodiment and socialization. Working with and against colonial archives, Tuli Mekondjo presents her ongoing artistic work and social commitment to bringing back to life fertility dolls that were no longer created and shared during German colonization in Namibia. The Afro-Uruguayan female collective Hermosa Intervención discusses the pervasive racist narratives present within their community and the need to reconstruct and perform neglected Afro-Latina experiences and histories to resist and transform neo-colonial hegemony. Lisa Hilli digs into the histories of resistance of female-led movements in Melanesia, reflecting upon them as precursors of contemporary struggles and foregrounding the (in)visibility of Black and Melanesian women.