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© Filmstills: Dark Continent, 2023 Courtesy Dani Gal
Screening & Lecture "Dark Continent " mit Künstler Dani Gal in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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Dark Continent
Screening & Lecture with Dani Gal
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Lecture Hall
Tuesday, 1.7.25
Start 7 pm
End 8.30 pm
Dani Gal's film "Dark Continent" (2023) deals with race-related phobias resulting from the colonial imagination and their transmission through music. The film adapts a case study from the book "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952) by psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanon from Martinique: a young white French woman suffers from a nervous disorder triggered by the sound of African drums - drums that were banned by colonial regimes and slave owners because they were suspected of carrying signals of insurrection.
Following the screening, Gal will give a lecture on the structure of the film in relation to its historical and literary sources. He will discuss the dynamics of cultural intolerance in repressive systems and analyze how these structures creep into psychological spaces and manifest in feelings of fear and alienation - especially through sounds and music. The lecture will be held in English.
The film is currently being screened daily at ajh.pm Artspace and is also available via the website www.ajh.pm. Further information about the film and Dani Gal can also be found there.
"Dark Continent" and Gal's lecture were last presented at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin as part of the exhibition "Forgive Us Our Trespasses".
Dani Gal (1975, Jerusalem) is a visual artist and filmmaker. He investigates the production of memory and collective history. His films and sound installations combine documentary material with fictional elements and address current political events. His works have been presented internationally, including at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), the New Museum in New York (2012), the Jewish Museum in New York (2014), the Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014), the Kunsthaus Zürich (2015), the Kunsthalle Wien (2015), Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens (2017) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2018 and 2023). Dani Gal lives in Berlin.
In the years 2024-2025 Dani Gal was a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities 'inherit. heritage in transformation', a research center at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Dani Gal's lecture will take place parallel to 'Think.Feel.Act - A Future Festival for Planetary Justice', which will be held from June 30 to July 5, 2025.
The event is organized by the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and is free of charge.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, lecture hall
Artur-Ladebeck-Straße 5
33602 Bielefeld
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