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The Time For Denial Is Over - Berlin


  • CTM Festival, HAU2, Berlin 34 Hallesches Ufer Berlin, BE, 10963 Deutschland (map)

3. -4. Februar 2023 HAU2, 15h-18h > Details @ CTM Festival

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WAX ENCOUNTERS
WAX ENCOUNTERS

Everyone knows the colourful cotton fabrics we call ‘African wax prints’.
But hardly anyone knows their colonial history. And who would have thought? Switzerland played an important role in spreading these fabrics in West Africa. In the mid-19th century, a Dutch company copied an Indonesian printing technique, and the Basel Mission's trading company created a market for it on the Gold Coast. In talks, films and installations, designers, artists and researchers from Africa and Europe shed light on the colonial entanglement between Switzerland and West Africa over two centuries, focusing on the production and trade of colourful cotton fabrics. WAX ENCOUNTERS is the first part of a multifaceted theatre and fashion project by GROUP50:50.

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