ON MY WAY HOME

That's what it's all about 

Sulwe is only two years old, she is “German-Kenyan”, Reinaldo Ribeiro is “queer” and “Afro-Brazilian”. Visa applications and bureaucracy shape their movements - and their identity. Who decides who they are or are allowed to be?
They interact with a material: bricks. The brick, together with the bodies that manipulate it, becomes the subject. Looting is a practice from the colonial era. For us, bricks are a symbol of reconstruction. At the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, which has been dealing with its colonial history for several years, you can experience live how various artists make decolonization and democratization tangible.

That's why you should come

ON MY WAY HOME is a performance, film and conversation that conveys proximity to decolonization through personal stories. What has to go so that we can build something new? We treat time in a NON-linear way, giving a second and third chance (and as many as needed) - so that new narratives and paradigms can emerge to resist together. Dive in and build with us. 

Pssst!

In the following panel on May 3rd we will deepen the discourse. What does “reparation” mean? The museum director who is working on coming to terms with the colonial past in NRW, the teacher who is the anti-racism officer at a school in Cologne ... what are their answers?