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GBE MI (Carry Me)
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In an interactive performance called GBE MI (Carry Me), Tolulope Ami-Williams invited members of the audience to participate in a ritual of cleansing and reconnecting accompanied by a voiceover that echoes with words laden with loss, pain, hope, and healing. The performance was a symbolic allusion to the ongoing process of restitution, as African communities reconnect with long-lost artefacts being returned by Western countries.
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#Healing#Performance/Spoken Word#Indigenous culture
Number TOA: TO_48_V
Year of Production: 2023
Date of Collection: Feb 2023
Location: Lagos
The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE has been developed in cooperation with African Digital Heritage (Nairobi), Visual Intelligence (Berlin) and a variety of thinkers and artists experimenting with text, images, audio, and video, to create their own cosmologies of Objects in the digital space. The objects were made available to us by the Musée Théodore Monod/IFAN (Dakar), the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Cologne), the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt), the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde (Leipzig) and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin). The development of the ARCHIVE is accompanied and nourished by the artistic research project TALKING OBJECTS LAB www.talkingobjectslab.org
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TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE was initiated by Isabel Raabe. Curatorial team: Chao Tayiana Maina, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Isabel Raabe, Malick Ndiaye
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