Organised by Dr. Anna-Lena Werner and Till Rückwart, Project: "Circulating Narratives – Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art" (Project lead: Prof. Dr. Annette-Jael Lehmann), Research Area 2: Travelling Matters.

The hybrid workshop "Counter Narratives and Resilience in Practice: On Decolonial Strategies in Art and Communities" addressed the potentials of performative, community-based, editorial and curatorial practices as narratives against the dominant canon of colonial histories. In the framework of a roundtable discussion, the five speakers Elena Agudio, Anna Ehrenstein, Patrick Flores, Yvette Mutumba and Alper Turan each contributed short impulse lectures, ideas and critical thoughts, in order to open the discourse to all participants afterwards. Methods of storytelling, queer curating, fictional archiving, the curatorial reconstruction of the global modern project and the rewriting of social constructs through the building of communities were discussed as resiliencies against, or rather, as Yvette Mutumba argues in her contribution, making visible parallel narratives existing next to master narratives and colonial systems.

The workshop is part of the project "Circulating Narratives - Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art".