“Anna Baba and the 40 Thieves” issa folk tale added to the “One Thousand and
One Nights” this summer as a result of the
exploding new/old fascisms in Germany. After a legacy of centuries of constructing racial difference and inventing racial groups, the last decade of German politics playing “good cop, bad cop” further normalised and mainstreamed
racial categories anew. To this day responsibility
for the far right networks in police
are bluntly ignored, mainstream politics and
media disregard the constantly recurring hate attacks on migrants. This racial discrimination found one of it's peaks, when the Lebanese Restaurant “Al Andalus” in Anna Babas neighborhood got burnt down by fascists and a Berlin newspaper titled this horrific incident
“Flambeed Kebab”.
We assume that our social and political
destinies are shaped by the will of the people
without realising that “the people” are always
produced by the media: we are all embedded
in mediated publics, structured by the apparatuses of communication that govern our interactions. The forty thieves are wearing suitswith tag words German MAINSTREAM media
uses to describe the people white supremacy
uses to weaponize fear.
"Südländer" ist ein Projekt von Anna Baba und den vierzig Räubern. Unsicher ist, ob es sich dabei um eine Performance, eine Ausstellung, eine Byrek-Bude oder einen Raubüberfall handelt. Sicher ist, dass Südländer Steine in den Turnschuhen und Kokoswachs in den Haaren tragen. Am 16. Oktober eröffnet das neue Shisha-Kaffee am Ebertplatz. Kommt vorbei für eine Razzia, neue Installationen der Künstlerin, Chayas Kochtipps und Videoarbeiten. Für eine gemeinsame Huldigung des Abendlandes - ein Sesam, der sich zugleich öffnet und abschafft.
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* there is no analogy to the Black experience
the “flambeed kebab” video work does not try to compare varying racisms with different historical trajectories,
that are linked by a
historically constructed threat
of “countrymen from the south”
Coming
To fuck your women
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