Decolonial Gaze vs POINT.A

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.

POINT.A leads you on a bespoke outdoor audio journey highlighting the magic already surrounding you. All you have to do is be in the right place at the right time. Currently available in select cities only, our app is a tailor-made art intervention for each location offered. From transforming your own body into a radio tuner as you walk, to secret performances hidden in plain sight, POINT.A guides you through a hidden world - in a city you grew up in or are visiting for the first time. Choose the work for the city that you are in, show up at the right place at the right time, put on your headphones and let lush binaural soundscapes and narration reveal a world you might have taken for granted.