Datum/Zeit
Date(s) - 25. Oktober 2021
17:00 - 18:00
Veranstaltungsort
Programmzelt 1 in Camp der Visionen
Kategorien Keine Kategorien
The whole planet feels the impact of climate change – but some countries, primarily those in the Global South, are experiencing the dramatic consequences to a much greater extent. As we have evidenced once again in recent elections, the political leaders of responsible Global North countries, such as Germany, are still favouring economic growth of their nations, over limiting their excessive carbon emission levels which are a cause for the suffering of other nations.
At the same time, politicians are making it increasingly harder for climate migrants and refugees to claim asylum in Europe and America, although their homelands are being made unlivable due to wars and ecological disasters impacted by the West. The politicians of the Global North are not just avoiding their responsibilities, but are violating human rights. As a consequence of the wealth driven dynamics in the Global North, habitants in Global South countries are increasingly experiencing severe droughts, extreme flooding or imbalanced temperatures and consequential wild fires, leading to more deaths of humans, and the erasure of wild life.
In this conversation, Mbuh Blaise Baneh and Monika Dorniak, will reflect on the correlation between climate change and migration, by looking at Baneh’s home country Cameroon. Baneh left his home due to the ongoing political unrest caused by the French-British colonisation. Residing in Berlin, the Cameroonian filmmaker and activist is working nowadays on projects that aim to connect the Global South with Europe. In his projects with locals, primarily in Cameroon and Benin, Baneh and his network reflect on climate change and try to enable the necessary, livable conditions for people to remain in Africa. Which bridges need to be build between Europe and Africa to provide a brighter future for people in the Global South?
Dorniak will present other projects that are undertaken in the Global South to counteract climate change, which can inspire the Global North in their actions. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary artist will reflect on the philosophical notion of Solastalgia, and belonging, to understand the importance of protecting the concept of home, thus nature. She will support her research by sharing applicable references from bell hooks and Frantz Fanon, and others.
Biography:
Blaise Baneh MBUH is Cameroonian by nationality, born in the metropolitan city of Bamenda, in the North west region of Cameroon. Blaise attained a professional audio-visual training school in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon after his high school. It was a training program funded by Goethe Institute Yaoundé. Upon finishing his training course in General Film making and Montage, Blaise travelled to Germany in 2013 to further his study program and later founded the Bamenda Film School. Blaise has been very active in North–South cooperation’s in diverse projects funded by Goethe Institute, BMZ, Engagement Global and Brot für die Welt. He is currently living in Berlin and working as a media pedagogue for Joliba e.V., a Afro-German culture network.
In 2013 Blaise founded the Bamenda Film School in the small town of Bambui and in 2021 the ‘Campus B’ of the film school in the Capital city of Yaoundé. He is currently organising a media collective in Benin Republic where he is preparing a 56mins documentary film in addition to his profile as documentary film producer.
Monika Gabriela Dorniak is a German-Polish artist with an interdisciplinary background in choreography, psychology and design, who often merges media – specifically performance, (textile) sculpture, workshop, video, photography. In her multimedia practice she is exploring the structures of the Self through a multifaceted analysis of body, mind and environment, by taking into consideration the regressive history of the domination of nature, and social power structures. Her auto-biographical research on intergenerational trauma, migration and belonging is carried forward within her ongoing collaborations with scientists and diverse communities. As an artist she has presented her works at international institutions, such as Tate Exchange in Tate Modern London (2017 & 2018), Foreign Affairs Festival at Berliner Festspiele (2014) and Arts Catalyst in London (2016), and as guest lecturer at Al-Quds Bard College in Palestine (2018), Chelsea College in London (2017) and Garage Museum in Moscow (2019). Dorniak holds a Master Degree in Art and Science (Department Fine Art) from the Central Saint Martins in London (2017).