Pedzisai Maedza: "Speaking for the Dead: Contemporary Performance Artists in the Archive"

03rd of December, 6pm, GB 5/160 

In the first lecture, Pedzisai Maedza will present his ongoing research:
This talk considers the role of performance dramaturgy in remembering, memorializing, and sustaining the memory of the 1904 to 1908 genocide in Namibia, sometimes dubbed Germany's forgotten genocide. It frames performance as a media through which this history is narrated and transmitted. The talk interrogates how contemporary artistic and cultural performances and performance-makers inform the ways in which the history of colonial genocide and the present are presented and remembered. [read more]

On the same day there will be a workshop with Pedzisai Maedza from 10 am to noon. Interested guests are welcome to participate, registration at dramatugies-afterlife@rub.de.