Resistance and Longing - Exhibition opening on Saturday, 30th November in Berlin

Witnessed Authors Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Sonia E. Barrett and Asoka Esuruoso will be in dialogue with Melody LaVerne Bettencourt this Saturday from 19:00

For more details visit the website: www.melodylavernebettencourt.com

"The Little Book of Big Visions" at Homestory Deutschland

The editors of "The Little Book of Big Visions" will participate in the panel discussion "Black Perspectives - Kultur und Widerstand" as part of the Homestory Deutschland programme of events this Friday, April 5th starting at 8pm.

Black cultural producers will make keynote statements pertinent to the current debates in Germany about the use of racist imagery and language in art. Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo will participate in the panel discussion alongside Mekonnen Mesghena, Head of Migration and Diversity at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Nadine Golly of Leuphania University and Lara-Sophie Milagro, Artist Director of Label Noir.

For more information about this event visit the website: http://www.homestory-deutschland.de/ausstellungsorte-programm/hamburg/diskussionsrunden.html

Friday, April 5th 2013
20:00
Westwerk, Admiralitätstr. 74, 20459 Hamburg
Entrance: Free

Signed copies of the book will be on sale!

"The Little Book of Big Visions" at the BGHRA Annual Convention 2013

The third annual convention of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (formerly the Black German Cultural Society NJ) will be held on August 8-11, 2013, at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This year’s convention will focus on Black Germans in Diaspora. The conference will feature a keynote address by Maisha Eggers, Professor of Childhood and Diversity Studies at the University of Magdeburg, a screening of the 1952 film “Toxi” at the Amherst Cinema, with an introduction and Q & A by Professor Angelica Fenner of the University of Toronto, author of “Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema” (2011), and presentations by guest artists Sharon Dodua Otoo and Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, editors of “The Little Book of Big Visions: How To Be an Artist and Revolutionize the World,” published by Edition Assemblage in October 2012.

Blackface, Whiteness and the Power of Definition in German Contemporary Theatre / Conference 16.10/ Berlin

Blackface, Whiteness and the Power of Definition
in German Contemporary Theatre


The International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” invites Bühnenwatch

...featuring Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo, editors of "The Little Book of Big Visions. How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World"

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Studio 1 Kunstquartier Bethanien

Mariannenplatz 2 / 10 997 Berlin

With presentations by Sharon Dodua Otoo, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Dr. Daniele Daude,

Dr. Azadeh Sharifi and Julia Lemmle

Moderated by Oliver Kontny

Programme

11.00   Introduction by Oliver Kontny
11.30   Sharon Dodua Otoo
12.00   Sandrine Micossé-Aikins
12.30   Dr. Daniele Daude

13.00-13.30 Discussion

Lunch

15.00   Dr. Azadeh Sharifi
15.30   Julia Lemmle

16.00-16.30 Discussion

See us at the Frankfurter Buchmesse...

The launch in Berlin was a big success.

"The Little Book of Big Visions. How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World" edited by Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo (edition assemblage) is now available and will be presented in Frankfurt during the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse)

With authors Yvette Mutumba, Philipp Khabo Koepsell, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Otoo

Signed copies of the book will be on sale.
5 € for each book sold will be donated to the Initiative of Black People in Germany (ISD Bund e.V.)

Here are the details:

Saturday, 13th October, from 6pm
at Roots Deepartment, Friedberger Landstr. 86, 60316 Frankfurt am Main

Hope to see you there!

Out Now! The Little Book of Big Visions

The Little Book of Big Visions:
How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World

Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo (eds.) (edition assemblage, 2012)


Black artists in Germany find themselves – necessarily – in a position in which subversiveness and resistance – implicit and explicit – become essential strategies to be used in their work if they wish to survive in this predominantly white context. However, after resistance is no longer necessary, what could be the vision then? And what is the central role of the artist in shaping or creating these visions?

This book contributes to the discourse firstly by providing a contextual discussion of the current situation of Black artists in Germany, and secondly, by reflecting on the question of how contemporary Black artists in Germany create and convey visions of equality.  The methods used to engage with these ideas, concepts and questions are partly in written form (fiction and non-fiction), and partly in visual form. This results in an innovative work focusing on the visions of Black artists in Germany.

“The Little Book of Big Visions: How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World” is aimed primarily at Black cultural producers living and working in Germany as well as those who reside in English-speaking contexts throughout Europe, UK, US and beyond. However, this book is also aimed at everyone who has an interest in ensuring that the contemporary art scene in Germany finally begins to be truly reflective of its actual and future population.

Available now!

Launch of Witnessed! Sunday, September 30th at 3pm

Tayo  ©  www.tayo-online.de

"The Little Book of Big Visions. How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World" edited by Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo (edition assemblage) will be presented at the launch event of the Witnessed Series.

With...
readings by authors Asoka Esuruoso, Bibiana Arena and Philipp Khabo Köpsell
and music by Tayo and Fourth Man's Friend, and Gonza, Jeanny & Bona

Signed copies of the book will be on sale.

Here are the details:
Sunday, 30th September, from 3pm
"T. Berlin", Fidicinstr. 38, 10965 Berlin-Kreuzberg

RSVP by emailing at: justtryandkeepmeaway@limitedtoyou.com :-)

Coming soon! Witnessed Edition 1: The Little Book of Big Visions

Witnessed will launch, as planned, in October 2012. The title and cover of the book however have changed.

Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and I are proud to present:

The Little Book of Big Visions. How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World

by Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo (eds.)

Witnessed Edition 1

(edition assemblage, forthcoming)

...with contributions from Jamika Ajalon, Bibiana Arena, Mo Asumang, Sonia E. Barrett, Misa Dayson, Asoka Esuruoso, Philipp Khabo Koepsell, Gyavira Lasana, Stephen Lawson, Caille Millner, Yvette Mutumba and Alex Weheliye.

Witnessed Edition 1: Imagine if Black Artists Actually Mattered?

Forthcoming publication (October 2012):

Imagine if Black Artists Actually Mattered? Visions of Equality in Germany

Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo (Editors)

Black artists in Germany find themselves – necessarily – in a position in which double-consciousness; subversiveness and resistance – implicit and explicit – become essential strategies to be used in their work if they wish to survive in this predominantly white context. "Imagine if Black Artists Actually Mattered?", the first edition of the Witnessed series, answers the questions of how a society which has achieved true equality could look and what the central role of the artist is in shaping or creating these visions? What would Black artistic practices in the context of such a visionary society look like? What actions are possible beyond reaction and resistance?

This book attempts to contribute to a discourse that is underrepresented in Germany by providing a contextual discussion of the current situation of Black artists in Germany and also focuses on examining how contemporary Black artists in Germany create and convey visions of equality.  

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Further Information: http://www.edition-assemblage.de/imagine/
Support this project through Crowdfunding: http://www.startnext.de/witnessed