Project Strategist-Artist: Auswärtiges Amt/German Foreign Office, HKW/Haus der Kulturen der Welt

March 10, 2019

 

Honored to be on board this major transdisciplinary global project commission via the German Foreign Office, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Goethe Institute. My project is called NECROPOLIS AMERIKKKA (aka Look – you can see the edelweiss growing in the Spanish moss!) and is designed to use various field tactics to interrupt the control structures of whiteness in Natchez Mississippi. My project will also include performance interventions, photography, hybrid text, video installation, and documented fieldwork encounters.

I’m part of a team of about 60 on the international project MISSISSIPPI: AN ANTHROPOCENE RIVER with legendary activist-artist-scientist-intellectuals. I’ll be at various sites for the remainder of 2019 and into 2020. Ironic and sad to be once again working against the global far-right with the Germans, who know how to do it better at this point than the United States presidency would like. 

 
I’m on the Natchez Team, which is especially meaningful since that’s where I grew up, and we will be creating a collaborative inquiry of the delta ecologies of genocide and contemporary far right organizing. For decades I’ve immersed myself in the playbook of the European & Colonial Far Right Rhizome. The strategic and tactical systems developed between (1) genocide of indigenous peoples and inhabitants (2) human rights atrocities of imported slave laborers and (3) the subsequent colonialist capitalist exploitation of natural resources (4) the institutionalization of dehumanizing far right control structures is a classic detailed playbook that for far too long has resided only in the hands of the perpetrators.
 
https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2018/mississippi_an_anthropocene_river/mississippi_an_anthropocene_river_start.php

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