Δ FOREIGN EXCHANGE

(or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)

16th January 2014 until 4th January 2015

An exhibition on the relationship between anthropology, colonialim and trade.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE is an account of certain disturbing ways of visualising human beings in the name of science; of the transformation of the human body into that of an object; of the fascination with the Other; of the passion for collecting; of the mission to preserve remote cultures for all eternity; of the need to find systems for that task. And it’s an account of the role that is ultimately always played by money and trade.

With more than 1,000 historic artefacts and photographs from Angola, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Melanesia, Mexico, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, New Britain, New Guinea, New Ireland, Nigeria, Russia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tierra del Fuego, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Combined with artistic research produced in the Weltkulturen Labor during 2013 by Peggy Buth (DE), Minerva Cuevas (MX), Luke Willis Thompson(NZ) and David Weber-Krebs (BE), as well as new texts by writers in residence Gabriel Gbadamosi (GB), David Lau (US), and Tom McCarthy (GB). Additional artworks by Marie Angeletti (FR), Lothar Baumgarten (DE), Benedikte Bjerre (DK), Rut Blees Luxemburg (DE), Clegg & Guttmann (US), Rotimi Fani-Kayode (NG), Armin Linke (IT), Otobong Nkanga (NG), Pushpamala N (IN) and Olivier Richon (CH).

The accompanying catalogue is published in German and English by diaphanes Verlag and includes contributions from Bruce J. Altshuler (US), Kokou Azamede (TG), Patricia Falguières (FR), Michael Fehr (DE), Ros Gray (GB), Charlotte Klonk (DE), Karl-Heinz Kohl (DE), Pramod Kumar KG (IN), Renée Mussai (GB), Michael Oppitz (DE), Peter Osborne (GB), Ciraj Rassool (ZA), Markus Schindlbeck (DE) and many others.

Curated by Dr. Clémentine Deliss and Dr. Yvette Mutumba.

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Δ DISPLACE YOURSELF

Photographic Experiments with Green Screen

Until 23rd January 2014.

How do different backgrounds change the impression a person or an object makes? In a week-long workshop, a group of young people of the initiative Joblinge gAG FrankfurtRheinMain investigated this question using photography and film. A green screen was installed in the Green Room, which served as a backdrop and enabled one to add any background or object to the photographs.

This exhibition was conceptualized and prepared in a collaboration between the artists and mediators Ani Schulze, Esther Poppe, Carolin Knebel as well as young adults of the initiative Joblinge gAG FrankfurtRheinMain. It shows the unusual and sometimes humorous photographs and films made by the teenagers. It also includes the “Green Screen Studio”, where visitors can produce and edit their own images during specially offered workshops.

The goal of the initiative Joblinge gAG FrankfurtRheinMain is to achieve a realistic chance of an apprenticeship position for young adults.
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With the kind support of the Aventis Foundation in the context of the cultural initiative “eXperimente”.

Green Room, Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37, 60594 Frankfurt
Entrance: €3 / reduced €1.50

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