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TYPP #8 - Blind Spot 👁

Pierre-Antoine Vettorello and Nyanchama Okemwa share their research practices on African textiles and their contemporary use in curatorial contexts. By critically re-examining a number of past exhibitions in Belgium, they relate the story of African textiles, their meaning and use in rituals, for memory-making or as spiritual carriers. How can the Belgian curatorial scene showcase African fashion and its fabrics without covering up the wounds of colonialism with the splendour of these textiles? 🧵🪡

TYPP # 8 - Blind Spot 👁

Haseeb Ahmed dived into the scientific and political history of the Peenemünde wind tunnel, a machine developed to experiment with the highest possible speeds. It was designed by and for military scientists in N**i Germany. After the war, the machine was moved to the US, along with the same scientists who created weapons of war and who would be later at the foundation of NASA and the American space race. Ahmed created a scroll drawing of this machine and shows its purpose as a contemporary artefact of the future, revealing the dark patches of our history 🌪