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18.04 | Conversation between Emeka Okereke and Alain Missala at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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Apr 15, 2024
Berlin, known for its history as a city of intersections and multifarious identities, embodies many contradictions. Its residents navigate paradoxes engendered by ideological differences. Yet it is a city where children from myriad nationalities and races across the globe are raised and educated with a strong emphasis on multiculturalism. What kind of world will they inherit or create as they grow up? As part of his podcast Nkata, artist and scholar Emeka Okereke discusses with Alain Missala the following questions: As humanity moves towards, and encounters, each other (intensively and extensively), what do we make of our differences and how might we nurture and encourage the children to embrace the wealth of difference to project themselves onto a world where, as the African philosophy, Ubuntu goes, “I am because we are”?
The conversation will centre around what Emeka Okereke calls “a volatile negotiation between the past and the present”, reflecting on the dilemmas of our time, and the new age – the world our children will one day inherit. Selected episodes from Nkata are presented at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) as part of the exhibition A Home for Something Unknown (March 2 – April 28, 2024).
In the series, Okereke speaks with cultural practitioners, theorists, and fellow artists about their lives and work. The conversations are renditions of significant events experienced by the guests that inform their way of being and moving in the world.
For more see the link on the website of n.b.k below
n.b.k. â Dilemma of a New Age
Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein ist ein 1969 in Berlin gegründeter Kunstverein, der sich der Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst widmet. Der Verein hat feste Ausstellungsräume in der ChausseestraÃe in Berlin-Mitte.
