„Kolonialwarenladen“
by Claudia Wegener/Radio Continental Drift
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| Claudia
Wegener is a London-based artist who engages in social and community
projects by means of acoustic communication, oral history and media
education. She works under the name Radio Continental Drift, and a
large part of her projects are developed in African countries, with a
focus on South Africa, Kenya and Uganda. In her new radio piece
“Kolonialwarenladen”, Wegener looks back upon her own roots
in Germany. Artist’s statement: “start asking, where am I coming from…” often a central question in my work with community organisations & groups of artists in Africa; here, I’m posing the question also to myself: through conversations with women of my mother’s generation (born in the 1930s) in Germany, recorded in the city of Hamm, where I grew up; I’m asking the women to listen to recordings I made with African women conducted in English and “translate” or respond to parts they may choose and relate to in German. “Kolonialwarenladen” - the word, its uses, abuses and histories, repercussions and connected personal memories also serves as an entry point in these conversations; reflecting on residues of “another” side of colonial histories (“we know very little…”) : what knowledge or information could be traced, can be traced, remembered, or excavated about Africa in daily life in Europe/ Germany; and more specifically, what forms of representation or articulation does the forgetting of “our colonies” find in the narrations and childhood memories of women in a “motherland” ? The recordings with women from Uganda, Kenya and South Africa are archived online and available for downloads under creative commons licence; for playlists, see http://www.radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com Credits / the narrators: Aber Khevine, Gulu, Uganda Ameso Tabitha, Kampala, Uganda Bewerley Webster, Durban, South Africa Claudia Wegener, London, UK Faith KaManzi, Durban, South Africa Irmgard Fatheuer, Hamm, Germany Irmgard Gorschlüter, Hamm, Germany Ingrid Wegener, Hamm, Germany Joyce Laker, Gulu, Uganda L-ness (Lydia Akwabi), Nairobi, Kenya Lucie Schade, Hamm, Germany Makgotso Gulube, Johannesburg, South Africa Phumelele Ndlovu, Durban, South Africa Regina Amelio, Kampala, Uganda Rosemarie Bürstenbinder, Hamm, Germany Seane Leboue, Johannesburg, South Africa Uschi Lodde, Bochum, Germany Mbira / song : Albert Sempeke, Kampala, Uganda Mouth harp: Matshepo Motsoeneng, Newcastle, South Africa “Safari” Song : Alfons & Ingrid Wegener Quotation from: John S. Mbiti “African Religion and Philosophy” Contributions form Durban where produced and published during the Durban Sings audio media & oral history project: http://www.durbansings.wordpress.com Material: cross-translations.pdf |
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