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SUMMARY:Interwoven Dependencies: Keynote Performance by Tuli Mekondjo
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DESCRIPTION:Tuli Mekondjo’s performance "Saara Omulaule/Black Saara" (20
 23) was improvised & inspired by Kari Miettinen’s book "On the Way to Wh
 iteness – Christianization\, Conflict\, and Change in Colonial Owambolan
 d\, 1910-1965". The Finnish Sunday school song about “Black Saara – th
 e little Negro girl” prompted a visceral response and an avenue of quest
 ioning for Mekondjo. She asks: “What made my ancestors (Aawambo people) 
 convert to Christianity during the period 1910-1965?” The artwork evokes
  the need for ritual practices on living bodies as an attempt to awaken th
 eir souls from spiritual death in order to connect to our ancestors. This 
 practice insists on the imperative performative action carried forward by 
 ancestors\, whose remains are still kept in the bondage of colonially crea
 ted museums and missionary-made cemeteries. Mekondjo’s use of food\, rit
 ual and medicinal items to install the performance video are a way to conn
 ect ancestral spirits with the digital manifestation. PW: olukonda
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URL:https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events/interwoven-dependencies-keynote-perf
 ormance-by-tuli-mekondjo
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