A monographic publication featuring multilingual text-film transcripts engaging with the legacy of the German colonial project in Cameroon and Germany, as well as broader questions of border crossings, asylum, and exclusion.
The works collected for this publication span installation, video art, and ciné-poems, emerging from anti-racist movements and debates around disidentification, representation, and institutional critique—through the medium of moving images.
A key part of the publication comprises films created in French and German as part of the research project Choix d'un passé, in collaboration with Moïse Merlin Mabouna. These films are accompanied by textual and visual sequences from the video works S. – Je suis, je lis à haute voix and Erase them! – The image as it is falling apart into looks. The eBook also includes a playable film file and elements from the film performance Der erste Blick #1, created in collaboration with Angela Melitopoulos and Vassilis S. Tsianos.
The reader series Scriptings: Political Scenarios, edited by Achim Lengerer, publishes carefully selected scripts and texts by artists that refer neither to academic forms nor to purely literary forms of writing, but rather embed "text" as a fully integral part of contemporary political and visual art practice.
Brigitta Kuster (born 1970) is an artist, filmmaker, cultural researcher, writer, and Professor at the Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Kuster specialises in film, visual and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial and European border studies. Kuster is a member of EIPCP, the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies as well as of the publication platform "transversal texts".
