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In our (my) ongoing series on defining buzzwords, I give you today a pinch of postcolonialism. Hito Steyerl, who will also be at the PROLOGUE-BLN seminar, wrote “Can the Subaltern speak German?” in 2001. A longer version is published in a book with the same title together with texts from Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers, Maria do Mar Castro Varela, Luzenir Caixeta, Nikita Dhawan, Fatima El Tayeb, Umut Erel, Grada Ferreira, Cathy S. Gelbin, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Anil K. Jain, Kien Nghi Ha, Annette Seidel-Arpaci, Shirley Tate and Tanya Ury.
“[…] the analysis of postcolonial, feminist, and anti-racist critique means paying attention to the geographical and political context, in which this critique is produced and through which it is formed.”
Hito Steyerl: Can the Subaltern speak German? Postcolonial Critique (in English)
(The German original can be found here)

As with the other blog entries in the “What is” category this is not meant as a definite definition but an ongoing collection of resources of terms.

SEDA GUERSES

Berlin is a space where I strongly experience feminism and anti-feminism and their interplay with race and ethnicity. It is a conjunction of places where I have to reorient my coalitions almost on an hourly basis. Here is a list of some of the locations.

The streets. Every six months, a public event occurs where my feminism is contested because of my ethnic background. Usually it follows the murder of a white man or a woman of color. I am reminded on the streets that a woman who may be identified as feminist, queer, or trans cannot be from an immigrant Muslim culture. If anything, she may be either emancipated from her culture or saved. Or they say, oh, I would have tipped an Italian or a Spaniard, but not a Turk. I do not originate, I simply am, if not made.

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Tanja Ostojic is going to perform her work “Integration Impossible” at PROLOGUE-BLN on Saturday, 9 December 2006, at M12 (Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, Alexanderplatz) during the A revolution to make you dance-party. She wrote a short introduction to her work:

“Integration Impossible is a new interactive compilation of performances, art actions and documentary by Tanja Ostojic questioning EU migration policies and the notion of terrorism. Ostojic directly familiarized herself with popular border crossings strategies that migrants have been using for decades. In order to take her own rights that she has been restricted from by current EU laws, she explicitly applied strategies of provoking public sphere and of violation of law, to gain the right to move freely and live and work where she wants.”

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As mentioned in the “About”-section this is the 4th prologue event. There were two conferences in Graz and an exhibition with symposion in Manchester.

The programme of Prologue Graz, May 2006 and Prologue Graz, May 2005 are both still available online. The women in Graz published two journals (edited by Marina Grzinic). The table of content of the first journal can be found at
http://esc.mur.at/05prologue-journal.html. The second issue is not yet online - we will announce it as soon as it happens. There will be copies available in Berlin at our seminar but they also can be ordered at esc [at] mur.at if you are not able to come.

In Manchester the exhibition took place in Cornerhouse, a centre for contemporary visual arts and film. Emma Heditch wrote an article for Mute magazine in August 2005 about the events.