Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — “207 Years Ago I Would Have Been Standing In The Amphitheater” And Other Attempts To Decolonize “Digital” Technologies by Aouefa Amoussouvi

Synopsis

A multi-sensory meditation bridging intersectional feminism, decoloniality, crafts, and digital technologies. The lecture questions: Who writes History? How biased is scientific research? Which parts of the history of science have been erased to polish the image of some or render others invisible? Travelling in time and space, Aouefa touches upon digital colonialism, the story of Sara Baartman, personal narratives, chemistry, ritualism, and planetary history of cacao. Aouefa further presents her recent collaborative projects, which attempt to decolonise “digital” technologies and explore blurry boundaries between art and craft, rituals and technologies, body and mind, human and non-human, History and microhistory, institutional and self-organised.

About Aouefa Amoussouvi

A multidisciplinary researcher, artist, and curator, Aouefa holds a PhD in Theoretical Molecular Biophysics from Humboldt University of Berlin and was co-director of The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER) in 2020-2022. Her work explores rituals, technologies, intersectional and decolonial feminist narratives in science, and aims to create practices for collective knowledge production outside European and academic contexts. She also investigates technologies for healing and maintenance of transgenerational memories. She is currently training in process-oriented psychology. She has worked with SAVVY Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Maxim Gorki Theater, Royal Holloway University of London, Laboratoire Kontempo, Disruption Lab, among others.

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