mapping black europe

Vianca Horta

Dr. Doris Cacoil

Acts of Resistance

February 20, 2019

Nigra Videri is a coordinated effort between Curacao based specialists Avantia Damberg and Ailsa Anastasia. Here we can look at the idea of perceivability/intangibility. The character delights in the way that she can vanish in the Dutch urban space. Agreeing to the craftsman explanation "You can be there, however nobody sees you. Until you need to, at that point you give your hues a chance to be seen and your sound be heard. At your own time." The control has a place with the hero. The organization is in the hands of the craftsman. The show gives us a guide of Europe by method for her frontier chronicles and would like to grow the thought of what "Dark Europe" looks, as and which nations ring a bell first. Nigra Videri is a movement about getting a charge out of to be undetectable. Appreciating to vanish in the dim Dutch urban culture. You can be there, however nobody sees you. Until you need to, at that point you let your hues be seen and your sound be heard. At your own time. Amid her residency Anastatia made a few new compositions and teamed up with Avantia Damberg on the movement video Nigra Videri. The video was introduced amid the opening of the Black Magic Woman Festival. By this Anastatia and Damberg made a display together at the Center for Visual Arts Zuidoost (CBK Zuidoost) around the focal subject of Black Magic Woman Festival: Sharing Identities. In the display Anastatia demonstrated a few new works that she made amid the residency. The movement video Nigra Videri was likewise displayed inside the gathering show Amsterdam In Front Of You at the Pop-up Gallery Amsterdam.

Black Magic At The White House is a 2009 video piece by Jeannette Ehlers. She is rendered about undetectable by means of video control, plays out a vodoun move in Marienborg which has a solid association with the Danish slave exchange. Ehlers wishes to reveal insight into the frontier amnesia in Denmark. The craftsman's very own ethnic foundation, with a Danish mother and a Father from Trinidad, West Indies, adds additional solidarity to her works, which utilize carefully controlled photos and video to put the Transatlantic Slave Trade and it's effect on current society under the magnifying lens. The house was worked as a late spring living arrangement for the Commander Olfert Fischer in 1744. Who sold it to trader Peter Windt and additionally had made a lot of riches from the slave and sugar exchange.

“Based on my own Danish West Indian background, I examine and process themes related to the transatlantic slave trade that, despite the predominant collective repression, still play an important part in our society. My work is a personal taking history to task and a protest against the suppression of and often ignorant attitude towards these problems that I meet in this part of the world.”

Citations:

Black Magic at the White House – ArtoftheMOOC.org Artofthemooc.org http://artofthemooc.org/wiki/black-magic-at-the-white-house/