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Felisha Maria Carenage
Felisha is driven by inherited paradigms of romance and kinship. She uses painting, texts and interactive installations to explore recontextualizations of cultural commodities in language, literature and history. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she currently lives in France and Germany.
Her post-graduate project, HEIMATSCHUTZ: Colonial Continuities in Schleswig-Holstein’s Harbour Cities examines the inherent violence in the architecture and infrastructure of post-colonial cities, and their role in engineering and perpetuating the fallacy of german memory culture, as well as climate hypocrisy. Focusing on colonial traces in harbour cities on and near the Baltic Sea, she works with Integrative Geographies at the Europa-Universität in Flensburg, which deals with reparative justice.
Since 2017 she has been an Associate Lecturer in Fine Arts at the Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design in Kiel.
UPCOMING
April-September, 2023
Publication
Unbehagen Pflegen
Fine Arts Department + Diversity Commission
Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design
Kiel and Online
June, 2023
Intervention
Sugarworks: Architektur, Salonfähigkeit und das Exotische um 1773 2023.
part of the exhibition 1773, curated by Jens Martin Neumann
City and Maritime Museum Warleberger Hof, Maritime Museum Fischhalle
Kiel
July, 2023
Exhibition
Santa Maria Paraffina
with Anne Meerpohl + Luiza Furtado
Vernissage 07.07.23 19:00
MOM
Fabrique Gängeviertel
Hamburg
PAST
April, 2023
Research Residency
Clay Space Studio
Toronto
March, 2023
Research Residency
Reading 10.03.23 18-21:00
Zine Launch: The Weight of Theodor Storm
ALICE YARD @ Granderson Lab
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
Panel 27.03.2023
Situating the colonial past in the present: contested cultural heritage, symbolic reparations, and spaces of healing in cities
2023 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado
Research Residency
Reading 24.03.2023
Nein: Badgyal Hauntologies
Studio Dem
Brooklyn
October- December, 2022
Installation
Elegies
Theatre Pilkentafel
Flensburg
October, 2022 – March, 2023
Reading Group
Art, Design and Social Engagement: towards a decolonial feminist art practise in Kiel
Fine Arts Department + Diversity Commission
Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design
Kiel and Online
August, 2022
Installation
(Reading 27.08.22 at 11:00)
Parade Créole: Drawing Breath
FREIRAUM
Museum of Applied Arts
Festival der partizipativen Räume
Hamburg
October, 2022
Research Residency
National Museum of Wales
Cardiff
October- November, 2022
Seminar/Excursion
Anti-Racist Curation at the Milk of Dreams,
Biennale di Venezia
Venice