TIME FOR DENIAL IS OVER
Transnational Restitution Movement
curated by Studio Rizoma and GROUP50:50
3 – 5 June 2022, Palermo
Atrio Biblioteca Comunale di Casa Professa
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara
PROGRAM
Friday, 3 June 2022
On Restitution
15:00 – 17:00. Atrio Biblioteca Comunale di Casa Professa
Opening of the three-day talk series “On Restitution”, covering one of the three core areas of Rhizome Cities Network. A programme of political and cultural exchange starting from the current debate on the restitution of cultural heritage and involving artists, policy makers, researchers and activists from Africa and Europe. Introducing a broader notion of restitution, which can refer to tangible and intangible heritage as well as natural resources, we present and discuss decolonising artistic and political practices and interventions that have a potential to transform the relations between Europe and Africa via a renewed protagonism of Europe’s municipalities and their migrant communities.
With:
Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo
Eva-Maria Bertschy, Artistic director of Fondazione Studio Rizoma
Patrick Mudekereza, curator of Centre d’Art Waza Lubumbashi, Congo, and Fellow of Studio Rizoma
Bootcamp – FIRST SESSION: The Arduous Transformation of Institutions
17:00 – 20:00
Atrio Biblioteca Comunale di Casa Professa
Lesson#1 Parlons des Mensonges Institutionnels – Bénédicte Savoy, Art Historian, Berlin
Lesson#2 Qui est le Voleur? – Mwazulu Diyabanza, Political Activist, Paris
Lesson#3 Dealing with a Fragmented Heritage – Peju Layiwola, Visual Artist, Lagos
Lesson#4 Continuous Repositioning – Leone Contini, Artist and Anthropologist, Rome
Lesson#5 Radical Education – Sepake Angiama, Curator and Educator, London
20:30
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara
Screening – You Hide Me – Nii Kwate Owoo
21:00
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara
Concert – Live for the Ghosts – GROUP50:50
Saturday, 4 June 2022
10:00 – 13:00
Meet at Casa Professa
Walk – We Won’t Let Them Sleep in Peace: Connecting Colonial Traces to today’s Racism – Rete Anticoloniale Palermo
17:00 – 20:00
Atrio Biblioteca Comunale di Casa Professa
Bootcamp – SECOND SESSION: Speak to the Dead and the Spirits!
Lesson#6 Revisit the Past of Beauty – Christian Nyampeta, Visual Artist, London
Lesson#7 Aller-retour Dans le Monde Rituel – Hervé Youmbi, Visual Artist, Douala
Lesson#8 Returning the Dead as Humans and Citizens – Ciraj Rassool, Historian, Cape Town
Lesson#9 A Visit of the Mbuti People – Patrick Mudekereza, Curator, Lubumbashi
Lesson#10 The Unburied of the Cimitero Dei Rotoli – Caterina Pasqualino, Anthropologist and Filmmaker, Palermo / Paris
20:30 – 23:00
Complesso Monumentale Santa Chiara
Screening – Return: An Epic Journey – Rita Mukebu
Screening – Sometimes It Was Beautiful – Christian Nyampeta
Performance – Tamburi e Fantasmi – GROUP50:50, Kinshasa / Berlin / Palermo
23:00 – open end
Ciwara Ristorante Africano, Vucciria Market
Open Mic and Afterparty
Sunday, 5 June
13:00 – 16:00
Complesso Monumentale Santa Chiara
Lunch + Ceremony – Africa for Peace – Consulta delle Culture Palermo
17:00 – 20:00
Atrio Biblioteca Comunale di Casa Professa
Bootcamp – THIRD SESSION: Colonial Ghosts and Future Landscapes
Lesson#11 Abandoning and Re-connecting Heritage – Emilio Distretti, researcher, writer and educator, London / Basel
Lesson#12 Solanum Aethiopicum – Aterraterra, Artist and Farmer Collective, Palermo
Lesson#13 Who Owns the Forest? – Remy Zahiga, Climate Activist and Indigenous People Rights Advocate, Bukavu
Lesson#14 Past and Present Slaves – Alagie Jinkang, Researcher, Palermo
Lesson#15 Natural Heritage – Evelyn Acham, Climate Activist, Kampala
20:30 – 22:30
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara
Screening – Il Corno Mancante – Leone Contini
Il Corno Mancante. Directed by Leone Contini, Milano, 2017 / 2018. 25 min.
Screening – Terra Inquieta – Chiara Ambrosio and Caterina Pasqualino
23:00 – open end, Alibi Club
Concert – Lord Spikeheart (Duma)
Concert – Ecko Bazz & STILL