LIGNA Audiowalks vs Decolonial Gaze

This is a smartphone app that allows you to listen to and participate in audiowalks created by the group LIGNA. The app presents a changing lineup of productions to listen to and engage with as a single person, as well as in groups. LIGNA consists of the media and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen. In performative interventions and mass choreographies, they have been exploring the possibilities for action of collectives that associate themselves in a dispersed and temporary manner since 2002. In doing so, they develop different models of media use. LIGNA's works have been awarded several national and international prizes.

The ‘Agents of History’ group uses digital technologies to uncover untold stories that can be explored in urban space using a smartphone. The new project ‘BLCK WRK’ links historical facts with biographical traces of Black migrants who demand their rights to work and stay in Hamburg. The historical starting point as well as the starting point of the walking tour is the former ‘harbour office’, which was located at Rothesoodstraße 8. George Padmore, who organised the world’s first ‘Conference of N* Workers’ in 1930, worked there. Participants at this conference included the ‘brother delegates’ Franck Macaulay from Nigeria and E.F. Small from Gambia. Almost 100 years later, Larry Macaulay, together with Agents of History, analyses the current situation of African migrants and identifies continuities of exploitation that still have an impact today.