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Alienation, estrangement, defamiliarization, rootless and free, rooted and entangled, naivety/diversity, dual perspective, infinite boundaries blurred. All role-playing. Creating identities? Perhaps I should get myself a completely new identity, a reconstruction, freely invented from imaginary memories of here and there and put together with gentle ironies.
Was fehlt - Eksik olan - What's missing
13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 14.6. - 14.9. 2025
A text/sound/space installation takes the encounter between Navina Sundaram and Cemal Kemal Altun in August 1983 as a starting point to explore the disappearance of two migrant voices in West Germany and their fateful connection.
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“The Fifth Wall” comprises films, reportages, moderations, texts, letters and photos by filmmaker and editor Navina Sundaram spanning over 40 years of her work in public television. Designed as a digital biography of her work and modelled on a media library, the archive is structured thematically.
Sourced from ARD archives as well as Sundaram’s private archive, “The Fifth Wall” is a curated look at German migration and media history. Navina Sundaram is the prime focus as an author who takes a journalistic stance: on internationalism and decolonisation, class issues, racism, immigration, Indian and German politics.