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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 3
Born 1985 – lives and works in Berlin, DE
Sinthujan Varatharajah explores issues of forced displacement, statelessness, and spatial inequalities, particularly those of Eelam Tamil people. “All that is left of us are shadows, for many, not even these shadows are meant to be ours.” By centering a displaced and marginalized people, he brings forth their forgotten stories by, quite literally, placing them on the map of Berlin. Varatharajah uses oral and visual memories to render the German capital into a Tamil city, an extension of a lost territory. He asks: “Can a city hold and belong to more than a singular history and people? And what does it mean for a stateless people to shape and create new spaces within others’ nation-states?” In his work, Varatharajah reads Berlin through the flight movements of a traumatized people through what was then, in the 1980s, a divided city. His living archive interrogates the many struggles for a people without sovereignty over land (and bodies) to mark spaces across different political regimes and to build as well as maintain stable archives. By investigating the many silences and absences within records of history, his archive challenges national memorialization cultures and seeks new meanings in old places.
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
Chronicle
Maternidades subversivas
María Llopis
Monograph
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. Entre las Curadoras de la XI Berlin Biennale
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) in Berlin
A conversation between María Berríos and Melanie Roumiguière
Conversation
Género y colonialidad en busca de claves de lectura y de un vocabulario estratégico descolonial
Rita Segato
Essay
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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 3
Born 1985 – lives and works in Berlin, DE
Sinthujan Varatharajah explores issues of forced displacement, statelessness, and spatial inequalities, particularly those of Eelam Tamil people. “All that is left of us are shadows, for many, not even these shadows are meant to be ours.” By centering a displaced and marginalized people, he brings forth their forgotten stories by, quite literally, placing them on the map of Berlin. Varatharajah uses oral and visual memories to render the German capital into a Tamil city, an extension of a lost territory. He asks: “Can a city hold and belong to more than a singular history and people? And what does it mean for a stateless people to shape and create new spaces within others’ nation-states?” In his work, Varatharajah reads Berlin through the flight movements of a traumatized people through what was then, in the 1980s, a divided city. His living archive interrogates the many struggles for a people without sovereignty over land (and bodies) to mark spaces across different political regimes and to build as well as maintain stable archives. By investigating the many silences and absences within records of history, his archive challenges national memorialization cultures and seeks new meanings in old places.
Invitation to the Species: Cecilia Vicuña
Tamaas / Cecilia Vicuña
Podcast
Freiheit für Chile!
Anonymous
Photo album
A Moment of True Decolonization / Episode #6: Sinthujan Varatharajah. Constructing the Tamil Eelam State
The Funambulist / Sinthujan Varatharajah
Podcast
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
Teatro da Vertigem
Monograph
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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 3
Born 1985 – lives and works in Berlin, DE
Sinthujan Varatharajah explores issues of forced displacement, statelessness, and spatial inequalities, particularly those of Eelam Tamil people. “All that is left of us are shadows, for many, not even these shadows are meant to be ours.” By centering a displaced and marginalized people, he brings forth their forgotten stories by, quite literally, placing them on the map of Berlin. Varatharajah uses oral and visual memories to render the German capital into a Tamil city, an extension of a lost territory. He asks: “Can a city hold and belong to more than a singular history and people? And what does it mean for a stateless people to shape and create new spaces within others’ nation-states?” In his work, Varatharajah reads Berlin through the flight movements of a traumatized people through what was then, in the 1980s, a divided city. His living archive interrogates the many struggles for a people without sovereignty over land (and bodies) to mark spaces across different political regimes and to build as well as maintain stable archives. By investigating the many silences and absences within records of history, his archive challenges national memorialization cultures and seeks new meanings in old places.
Undocumented Rumours and Disappearing Acts from Chile
María Berríos
Essay
Género y colonialidad en busca de claves de lectura y de un vocabulario estratégico descolonial
Rita Segato
Essay
Queer Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration
Zairong Xiang
Monograph
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
Invitation to the Species: Cecilia Vicuña
Tamaas / Cecilia Vicuña
Podcast
Freiheit für Chile!
Anonymous
Photo album
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Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 3
Born 1985 – lives and works in Berlin, DE
Sinthujan Varatharajah explores issues of forced displacement, statelessness, and spatial inequalities, particularly those of Eelam Tamil people. “All that is left of us are shadows, for many, not even these shadows are meant to be ours.” By centering a displaced and marginalized people, he brings forth their forgotten stories by, quite literally, placing them on the map of Berlin. Varatharajah uses oral and visual memories to render the German capital into a Tamil city, an extension of a lost territory. He asks: “Can a city hold and belong to more than a singular history and people? And what does it mean for a stateless people to shape and create new spaces within others’ nation-states?” In his work, Varatharajah reads Berlin through the flight movements of a traumatized people through what was then, in the 1980s, a divided city. His living archive interrogates the many struggles for a people without sovereignty over land (and bodies) to mark spaces across different political regimes and to build as well as maintain stable archives. By investigating the many silences and absences within records of history, his archive challenges national memorialization cultures and seeks new meanings in old places.
IV: How Fear Can Dismantle a Body. Vis-a-Vis with two of four curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale
María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado
Conversation
St Sara Kali George
Delaine Le Bas
Soundscape
A Moment of True Decolonization / Episode #6: Sinthujan Varatharajah. Constructing the Tamil Eelam State
The Funambulist / Sinthujan Varatharajah
Podcast
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) in Berlin
A conversation between María Berríos and Melanie Roumiguière
Conversation
Flávio de Carvalho: Fazenda Capuava
Archive of Lisette Lagnado
Photographs
Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Monograph
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