
Owned by Others
A Map to Possession Island
Aliou Diack(Author)
K. Verlag Anna-Sophie Springer
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-3-947858-39-2 (ISBN)
Description
Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island
Anna-Sophie Springer & Raul Walch, eds.
Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island treads the interstices of the institutionally mummified city center that is Museum Island in Berlin. An embodied interrogation of colonial looting and nationalist chauvinism, this book maps alternative orientations for decolonization, restitution, repair, and empowering movement. Owned by Others also considers how the alleged "revitalization" of the museologized city center continues to exploit the lived experiences of diasporic artists and looks to other practices of inhabitation and transformation to challenge these legacies of oppression.
Conceived to inspire readers to go on their own walks around the area, this publication follows and extends a series of site-specific works organized by the initiative Owned by Others, including the conversion of a former storefront for a Caribbean travel agency into the "Museum Tropicana," located across the river from the Stadtschloss/Humboldt Forum. Comprised of images and artists' writing reflecting on the Museum Tropicana and related agitprop events and projects, as well newly commissioned and translated essays on the psychogeography of Berlin, the publication proposes a counter-vision to the reactionary urban planning that has cemented on Museum Island.
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Language
English
German
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 19 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-947858-39-2 (9783947858392)
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Contributions
Editorial board member