Contradiction Studies

Opening of the exhibition: Ostwärts in den Westen. Die Flucht von DDR-Bürger:innen über die bundesdeutsche Botschaft in der ČSSR im September 1989

Natalia Wollny („Euthanasie“-Gedenkstätte Lüneburg e. V.) & Klaas Anders (RTG Contradiction Studies | Bremer Bündnis für Deutsch-tschechische Zusammenarbeit e.V.)

04/17/2023 7:00 pm –9:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2

Opening of the exhibition with a guided tour by the curators Natalia Wollny & Klaas Anders

  • Welcome by Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht
  • Contemporary witness talk with Heiko Strohmann
  • Guided tour with Klaas Anders and Natalia Wollny
  • Followed by a champagne reception with finger food

Homepage of the exhibition

The exhibition was financed by:
Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen
Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds

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articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel