Cities and Places of God: gecekondu am Kotti
Brigitta Kuster lives and works in Berlin as a video artist, cultural producer and author. The focus of her work is post-colonialism, anti-colonialism and current immigration to Europe. She is presently a junior researcher at the University of Hamburg in the FP 7-Forschungsprojekt Mig@net (http://www.mignetproject.eu/). Together with Moise Mabouna Merlin, she made the film choix d'un passé: traits d'union, which treated the legacy of German colonialism in Cameroon and Germany.
Her most recent video work and publications include Entkolonisierung, a three-channel video installation, HDV, 5 minutes, 2010; À travers l‘encoche d‘un voyage dans la bibliothèque coloniale: Notes pittoresques, 25 minutes, color DV, 2009; together with Marianne Pieper and Vassilis Tsianos, “‘Making Connections’: Skizze einer net(h)nografischen Grenzregimeanalyse,” in Generation Facebook: Über das Leben im Social Net, eds. Oliver Leistert and Theo Röhle (Bielefeld: transcript 2011) pp. 221-248; and “Tarzan and the Scream of Modernity: On the Postcolonial in Mohamed Osfour’s Cinematic Works,” in Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past – Rebellions for the Future, eds. Marion von Osten, Serhat Karakayali and Tom Avermaete (London: Black Dog Publishing 2010) pp. 272-287.
Some of her more recent exhibitions include Animismus, HKW Berlin (together with the group artefakte//anti-humboldt) 2012; Rester et partir, Musée de Bamako (Mali) 2011; Forum Expanded Berlinale, 2010; and Randzonen der Bilder, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2009.
Together with Gülây Akin and Angelika Levi, and within the framework of Global Prayers, she is presently pursuing artistic research that focuses on the interplay between gentrification and religious self-empowerment in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
