Errata

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When anti-racist protest movements topple statues of Columbus in the US and long-overdue debates follow suit in Europe, our understanding of the entire modern era is being put to the test. Errata combines contemporary positions to undercut the reproduction of colonial structures in the present and seek out non-imperial forms of remembrance.

Errata is a title borrowed from an archival intervention by the theorist and filmmaker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Her work focuses on the violence of imperial boundary making, examining the relationship between the order of knowledge in Euro-American museums and the history of imperialism and migration.

The video, Never Settle, by New Red Order (NRO) presents itself as a recruitment campaign for a public secret society, which simultaneously satirizes and sincerely engages with solidarity and the desire for Indigenous epistemologies. NRO’s video, Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality, morphs monuments into metastasizing flesh via ritualized photogrammetric capture and virtual manipulation, clearing space for Indigenous futures. An audiovisual essay featuring Ryan Smith, Erhard Schüttpelz, Anselm Franke, and others deals with the ritual resistance and regeneration techniques of the “indestructible paganism” that Aby Warburg, based on his trip to the USA in 1895/96, sought out as a benchmark to take the measure of all cultural history, including that of European modernity.

Part of The New Alphabet