Changes in Direction – A Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European statements to current decoloniality debates from different perspectives.
The Finnish-German artist Laura Horelli engages with the traumatic and complex histories of colonialism and international solidarity between East Germany, Finland and Namibia, staging micro-historical interventions in public spaces. Her films transform the archive into a space – and publication – of reflective engagement.
“It is certainly worth critically reflecting on solidarity as an essential aspect of any social movement. More so, it is also vital to give thought to how solidarity has historically played out and what contemporary movements for equality and social justice have (or have not) learned from such histories.”
—Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja
The artist's compilation of research, interviews and discussions in this bilingual German-English volume are enriched by contributions by the Namibian performance artist Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, German curator-theorist Doreen Mende and the Finnish writer Olli Löytty. Initially an exhibition project and film screenings shown in Berlin, Freiburg i. Br., Malmö, Helsinki and Windhoek, Horelli and the curator Heidi Brunnschweiler put together a volume that celebrates and critically reflects on art as a process.
Laura Horelli (born 1976 in Helsinki, Finland) lives and works in Berlin. Between the semi-documentary and the genre of the “author's film”, her video installations address subjects related to memory, loss and identity. The narrative is often personal, but includes an analytical and expansive dimension.
Edited by Heidi Brunnschweiler and Laura Horelli.
Interviews, films and discussions with Nadia Abraham, Michael Alfons, Abisai Amunyela, Jimmy Amupala, Joe Ashipala, Jochen Becker, Kristin Capp, Ginga Eichler, Wolfgang Eife, Naango Elago, Jihan El-Tahri, Hilwananye Henock, Mwalengwa Hillebrecht, Actofel Ilovu, Uwe Jaenicke, Maria Kaakunga, Isabel Katjavivi, Peter Katjavivi, Cleophas Kaffo, Felix Kaluwapa, Lavinia Kapewasha, Patrick Keaveney, Marjatta Lahti, Thomas Lendrich, Nicky Marais, Antonia Majaca, Reinhold Mupupa, Alfeus Mvula, Silas Nangolo, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, Tshoombe Ndadi, Karen Nordentoft, Kati Peltola, Pekka Peltola, Anna Rastas, Papa Shikongeni, Tarah Shinavene, Ndeenda Shivute, Hans-Georg Schleicher, Ilona Schleicher, Simon Tjimbawe, Jean-Claude Tjitamunisa, Simeon Uulenga.
