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should they be repatriated and what context. show them today. busy when we go to those museums we look at those objects. like it is not the case and i think. i think the institutions and the euro and the whole global north conservative that means they don't want to change our position of course. take prelims noise museum that holds the famous bust of now for t.-t. which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year for close to a century egyptians have been demanding her return without success so how can these art collections be freed from their colonial context and made accessible to everyone artists nor are badri and john nikolai mehlis published this 3 d. scan of national t.v. online without the museum's permission. as long as you control not just the physical artifact but also the digital one you you kind of control the narrative
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around it because then you can decide which research for example you give it to with the data in the public domain berlin state museums lost their monopoly over this cultural treasure at least digital right now anyone with a tree d. printer can make their own efforts one replica now lies buried in the egyptian desert as a kind of symbolic restitution. that actually matter when all of your material material objects of the culture are in another country and completely decontextualized and actually got there violently namely through colonialism so it totally doesn't matter where the object is who gets to tell the story the imperial museum is also a seat the princess of the transmission of the museum has. now we get himself and he to tell the story publishing the data set on a public domain with an effort to but also with other projects very important. that
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now the reality is change because everyone can actually access it remakes and talk about it discuss it. with the help of scraped data 3 d. technology and artificial intelligence badri began to reconstruct the history of mesopotamia to do this she had to collect thousands of images of real objects she managed to get access to the databases of european museums through the digital back door. as long as those kind of kind of just consider themselves i think they're not relevant and meaningful in our world and they don't connect to what's going on today whereas i think the objects and their stories too are totally and through this digital what i like to call techno heritage it's possible to reappropriate the meaning of representation and. meaning . nor al badri the images have special meaning because they represent the cultural
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heritage of her father's homeland iraq. mission is one of the few works that actually have a very biographical component i would say because i'm half iraqi is a country which i could never visit it's a little bit of research for like how did. like and can be recreate some things without just copying it but generating completely new objects and that's important especially in a region which is nowadays iraq where everything usually is just destroyed and looked at the way a project fossil futures also employs digital technologies to tackle the issue of stolen cultural heritage and public property and southern tanzania many dinosaur bones were unearthed during the german colonial domination tons of these valuable fossils were taken abroad.
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it was the spots and where the dinosaur which is today the centerpiece of the natural history museum in berlin was excavated and seen exploited today it is a land grab by multinational companies the exact same spot and of course the people there are great and i totally understand this and so for all of my projects i go to this place and talk to the people one of these places is berlin's gurlitz a park torrijos for drug dealing many of the dealers here fled from sub-saharan africa they lack work permits and prospects badri is planning an event where these men will peddle art drugs. i think it's like situation and real time here what we can see and that's up and that's constantly violating their rights. and my proposition here. and i substance for imagining another world.
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nor a very firmly believes that the power of art can break down colonial structures and the inequality they've created. were. a sort of electronic beat. after a breakup. produced this track in cameroon. in crimea the same time. she says women there were treated with more respect before the europeans came. out of. such an impact the people. there were raising also the culture of the people.
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in the 21st century. i couldn't swallow my pride trust. you though you. were with 10 when she left cameroon and came to germany along with her 2 brothers. their mother wanted to do her doctorate at a german university. coming here it was a dream as a small african child white culture is. everywhere it's the norm it's the standard so when you know as a 10 year old that you're going to europe it's like the shoe look at the place. but in a small town in southern germany she was the only black girl around she experienced the burden of being a mother of racism they don't teach you about their lives in terms of where the we
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sources come from and how did well come to europe in such an amount it came from their colonies and it's really insane to me to be in this world and go to school so many years where they teach you so possibly about the world you're going to be living in and. thought this huge part of history. when she was 20000 decided to return to cameroon in search of how. it was really researching where i'm coming from where war my in terms of legacy and history. and it was really sad also to see that my parents' little connection to even what was before them. she wanted to establish a musical connection to geoff you know welcome home is about how well you know and
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all its strengths and flaws. so when i went to them i was playing the guitar. and i was saying and i got in common and just realized that. the good how to live in was not loud enough i can hold on like europe is very cold. in europe a super go on your own this. it's like when the general the so it didn't. the energy . should change styles experimented with electronic beats and made sound collages discovering the world a new in the process. and just a mix of the african reality in the digital form basically but.
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it was a lot now spends most of her time in germany she lives with her young daughter in berlin but africa is a strong part of the mix on this track she sample speeches by kwame nkrumah the 1st leader of an independent gonna. and mixes them with bits of dialogue she recorded during taxi rides around cameroon . when she no longer feels the need to enlighten germans who blank on their country's colonial past in germany. people like germany. in berlin in bali gets a taste of home at this cameroonian restaurant these days her search for identity has faded a bit into the background. the mixture of the to make. because
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going back to come and. go back. to which wasn't true but i guess i needed to do that. so at the end it would be up to me to create that that mixture in my everyday life right through because it's just very much a healthy balance. and that's something she hopes to pass on to her daughter. what i discovered is that it's not that important it's ok. that's not knowing and uncertainty while enjoying the journey to maybe be calling closer to war and. so these berlin street names that are a relic of germany's colonial past don't discourage. she says the future of the
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