Renaming colonial street names
First collection of initiatives and activists' groups in Germany, France, Switzerland. Further information welcome.

The international symposium Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art in Kumasi, Ghana in July|August 2009 brought together artists from four continents. The conference was organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST,  the African Community of Art Educators AFRICOAE and the University of Oklahoma. During the symposium the artists presented their complex and multifaceted works-in-progress in the exhibition Kumasi Crossroads - global kiosk affairs in the KNUST Museum with participative transcultural interventions investigating the global locations.  

 

Kumasi Crossroads Artists' Catalogue high resolution download (pdf 17 MB). For download please click on the link with the right mouse button and choose the download function in the appearing window. For opening a pdf file you need the free software Adobe Acrobat Reader.

 

Kumasi Crossroads Artists' Catalogue low resolution browser version for quick viewing (pdf 2 MB)

The participation in the symposium, the art exhibition and the research took place within and was supported by the framework of Wir sind woanders #3, a program initiated by the non-commercial art 'off' spaces in Hamburg, Germany.

We thank
IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.
NUE Norddeutsche Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung
for funding.

06.10.09

 

Exhibition view at Sankofa Space which questions chances of postcolonial, transcultural cultures of remembrance. The installation was initiated by Jokinen and Gordon Uhlmann and realised together with the participants of the symposium.

Re-Painting the Red of Rex Akinruntan, Kojo Apori, Ralitsa Diana Debrah und Charlie Michaels was an intervention in urban space with critical views at the omnipresent brandings of international companies in Ghana. The installation in the exhibition Kumasi Crossroads - global kiosk affairs documented the work.