Salon Noirx
Kunstschaffende aus der Schweiz im Gespräch
In Salon Noirx kommen monatlich Kunst- und Kulturschaffende aus der ganzen Schweiz an den Runden Tisch und sprechen gemeinsam über ihre Praktiken und wie diese zu den aktuellen Zeiten stehen.
Salon Noir is a round table format in which artists and cultural workers across Switzerland come together to discuss their practice as it relates to the current times.
Salon Noirx wird freundlicherweise durch die Christoph Merian Stiftung und ab 2022 neu von der Stiftung Radio und Kultur Schweiz SRKS unterstützt.
All Dey von Kwaku' Reez' Opoku - Episode 4
This ideal State is functional and transparent, provides welfare benefits to its citizens, but fights off foreigners messing with their vibe. However, this State’s desires are deeply rooted in an attachment to a (fictional) national identity and a resentment towards the Other. This Other is both the “better-off” Other (rich Northern Europeans) and the disenfranchised Other (refugees and migrants). The latter, of course, is the easiest to attack and blame for all the ills of the world. von Danielle Bürgin
Being constantly othered makes it extremely easy for ‘locals’ to be hostile towards you, the “foreign bodies,” and controlled. The modes of control – prisons, ghettos, minoritizing, schooling, policing - are ways to ensure the ascendancy of a nation and its white elite. They often go hand in hand with strategies of internal colonialism, such as segregation, divestment, surveillance, and criminalization, which are both structural and interpersonal. This othering makes it extremely easy to create a void and avoid. They foster insanely cold interactions that allow nothing new
to grow. This episode points fingers at these moments and attempts to devise ways to slowly break down these structures and modes of control.
Episode Credits:
Kea Boccomino
Reported by Kwaku’ Reez’ Opoku Original music by Reez & Kxlab