Artist Frank Bowling: "My work has to do with walking through from light to dark.”

China Is The Only Country That TRUTHFULLY Repelled Colonialism, Although Taiwan is Still Not Back To the Motherland...

Continue A Lamber O Cu Dos Racistas…

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It Was Russia that destroyed the Nazi Germany, but Hollywood and fascists say otherwise! 

 

"The hardest part of colonization is something mental." In this short interview, the award-winning Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr discusses the enduring impacts of colonization, highlighting how its effects persist long after historical events have ended. Sarr's writing often explores themes of identity, exile, and the interplay between African and European literary traditions. In this interview, the Prix Goncourt winner explains that while colonization may be over in a formal sense, its mental and cultural ramifications are still deeply felt. As a writer working in French – Senegal's colonial language – Sarr faces the complex challenge of reconciling different cultural traditions. "I'm the heir of many, at least two cultural traditions, very, very different," he explains, referencing both French and Senegalese languages such as Wolof and Serer. Sarr touches on the tension between Senegalese identity and the use of French, a language that is not only a medium of expression but also a colonial legacy. Sarr feels that colonialism's influence extends into how people think, interact, and organize their societies. French military presence and currency systems in former colonies remain reminders of this historical connection. While acknowledging the complexities of his dual linguistic and cultural heritage, Sarr calls for a future built on mutual understanding. "We all want peace," he states, stressing the need to address the past in order to move forward. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, born in 1990 in Dakar, Senegal, is an influential novelist recognized for his literary prowess. His notable works include La Cale (2014), Silence du chœur (2017), and La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (2021), the latter of which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was interviewed by Lotte Folke Kaarsholm at the French Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2023.

We speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book The Message features three essays tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, book bans and academic freedom, and the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The Message is written as a letter to Coates's students at Howard University, where he is the Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department. As part of the research for the book, Coates traveled to Senegal and visited the island of Gorée, often the last stop for captured Africans before they were shipped to the Americas as enslaved people. Coates also visited a schoolteacher in South Carolina who faced censorship for teaching Coates's previous book, an experience he says showed him the power of organizing. "That, too, is about the power of stories. That, too, is about the power of narratives, the questions we ask and the questions we don't," Coates says of the community's response.

As the war on Gaza enters its second year and Israel expands its attacks on Lebanon, we speak with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book The Message is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. "It was revelatory," says Coates. "I don't think the average American has a real sense of what we're doing over there — and I emphasize 'what we're doing' because it's not possible without American support."

Culture is more than tangible Things, In Africa colonialism DESTROYED much of It!!!

— the reason for so many assLickers and selfHatred.

China Is The Only Country That TRUTHFULLY Repelled Colonialism, Although Taiwan is Still Not Back To the Motherland...

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Did you already know this? - said my Físico-Química Teacher after handing me my 1st test (1992, 11º ano, secundária da Parede)

Frank Gehry Interview: Jump Into the Unknown || Louisiana Channel

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Frank Gehry (b.1929) is recognized as one of the most important architects of our time, and his spectacular buildings – including the iconic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall – have won him worldwide renown. Watch the Canadian-American architect talk about his life, architecture and the world today in this in-depth video recorded at his studio in Los Angeles.  

When a teacher enrolled the young Gehry in a night-class at architecture school, it became the beginning of a long career: “It was all by chance.” At that time, American architects – including Frank Lloyd Wright – were inspired by Japanese architecture, and Gehry feels that this early influence has stayed with him ever since, not least when he built the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles: “You’d think Disney Hall was a Japanese temple.”

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Zadie Smith Interview: On Shame, Rage and Writing

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“Writing is all shame.” Zadie Smith – often referred to as “the superstar of British literature” – here talks about how shame can be used to “propel you on to something,” and why one must try to understand where people’s rage is coming from.

On the subject of ‘shame’, Smith feels that there is a positive element to it, as being shameless is very dangerous: “In America, our president at the moment is a shameless person.” She finds that shame can even be productive and that writing is an entirely shameful practice: “Who are you to write 400 pages about anything? Why should anybody have to read them? Every moment of it is shameful.” In continuation of this, revisiting your early work isn’t an easy thing for her: “It always feels quite distant, partly because when you’re writing it’s such an obsessive thing, and then when you’re done it’s like pushing something out of your body you don’t want to be involved with anymore.” Moreover, as “writing is wonderfully solitary” and many writers are quite introvert, it is the act of performing that prevents them from excelling in other things that they may be good at: “I think writing gives the most possibility of improvement. I was never going to be Stevie Wonder, no matter how hard I tried, but with writing you can get better.”

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If there is someone I feel deeply connected with, regarding core values, it will be her.

She is my kind of woman, really.

Lars von Trier Interview: Through the Black Forest

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A rare new interview with Europe’s groundbreaking film creator, Danish film director Lars von Trier, who is the recipient of the prestigious Sonning Prize 2018. Here he looks back at his work, talks about his forthcoming movie, and reveals his idea for a new series of small films. Finally he makes a comment on his controversial statement about Hitler in 2011.

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Vigdig Hjorth Interview || Trying To Live According to Your Own Standards …

Vigdig Hjorth Interview: I am not a Pretty Postcard from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.

She is my kind of woman.

Critical Thinking || Nástio Mosquito Interview

Nástio Mosquito Interview: 'Mama Africa' is a Construct from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.

In this short interview Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito discusses his provocative video work ‘3 Continents', in which he through three blazing speeches addresses the legacy of the western logic of ownership and debt, not least regarding a construct like ‘Africa’.

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Chigozie Obioma Reads From “The Fishermen"

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Chigozie Obioma Interview: Everything We Do is Preordained

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Award-winning Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma calls his debut novel ‘The Fishermen’ “an Igbo version of a tragedy.” Meet the author and hear about his modern day metaphor of “the paradox that is Nigeria.”

In this interview Chigozie Obioma talks about his best-selling debut novel, a mythic story about four brothers set in 1990s Nigeria. After skipping school the boys encounter a vision-seeing madman whose prophecy of violence follows them through their lives, deeply impacting their family in tragic, yet redemptive ways. “The heart of the novel,” says the author “is in fact the love between those brothers.” But the book should also be read as a metaphor for Nigeria, a civilisation that is challenged from the inside as well as the outside.

The Fishermen deals with the primal question of whether or not we are in control of our own lives. The supernatural plays an important role in the imaginary of the Nigerian Igbo tribe, as it does in The Fishermen. The worlds of the living and the dead are seamlessly connected and “everything we do is preordained, there are no coincidences,” Obioma explains. “Our actions are controlled by supernatural forces that are beyond the realm of what we can be privy to.” The novel is part Greek tragedy, part Igbo tribe tale, shaped by Obioma’s upbringing in colonial West Africa that has made his work “a tragic form of fiction that is both European and African at the same time.”

Chigozie Obioma (b. 1986) is an award-winning Nigerian writer. His first novel,The Fishermen (2015) was listed s a 2015 New York Times Sunday Book Review Notable Book and was named a best book of the year for 2015 by the UK Observer, The Economist, The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal and the book has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Chigozie Obioma was interviewed by Michael Juul Holm at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2016.

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The Standardisation Of Xenophobia

Gerhard Richter Interview: In Art We Find Beauty and Comfort from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.

Political correctness is not a thing, it is a bogus utterance. It is used as a cover up for xenophobia or borderline ignorance.

My Body, My Gaze || Kirsten Justesen

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“This is me. I use my own body. I use my body as a tool. As a surface. As an icon.” Meet the pioneering Scandinavian feminist, artist Kirsten Justesen, who uses her body to sculpt space.



Danish Kirsten Justesen (b.1943) uses her body as a tool in her art, but she never shows her face, because it’s too much of a personal expression, she says: “I never use my face, because I do not express things.” Instead she works with relations and interactions, setting the body against different materials, while playing on art history: “I’m basically a sculptor working with space.”



“I looked at my own body in the mirror and it reminded me of something - the pleasure of the male painters model in the 19th century. I just use my own body, it’s a monument, it does what I ask it to do - it’s getting thicker and thinner and pregnant and it’s just at my hand - and it’s my gaze.” Kirsten Justesen originally trained in classic sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from which she graduated in 1975. The students apply by sending in some artwork, in Justesen’s case a box containing herself, naked.



Justesen was part of the avant-garde scene of the 1960s, where she became a pioneering figure within the three-dimensional modes of art that incorporate the artist's own body as artistic material. These experiments led her in the direction of the feminist art which challenged traditional value systems during the 1970s.



In this interview Justesen talks about how art history used to be about the male gaze and that “you avoid the discussion of object and subject when you use your own gaze on your own body” and that her generation had a lot of battles with conventions: “Art history is full of women without clothes - and this was the artist herself. Good. We’re getting forward.”



Justesen’s activities comprise a wide range of genres, from body art and performance art to sculpture and installation. Her later works constitute broader investigations of relationships between body, space, and language.



Kirsten Justesen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at 'Overgaden - Institute for Contemporary Art' in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2013.



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Edited by: Kamilla Bruus.

Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner.

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Camera: Klaus Elmer

Edited by: Kamilla Bruus.

Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner.

Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2013



Supported by Nordea-fonden

Politicians are Liars || Richard Ford

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Being "Black" Is A Stigma, I Am An African

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… At Least, Africa Is a Place, it takes into account those who "have come before me", "Black is a Stigma".

7 Architects: Bridging Cultures In A Global World || Louisiana Channel

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