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Felisha Maria Carenage
Felisha Maria Carenage is driven by inherited paradigms of romance and kinship. She uses painting, publications and interactive installations to explore recontextualisations of cultural commodities in language, literature and history. Currently resident in France and Germany, she has worked, studied and lived in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe and was born in Trinidad and Tobago.
Her post-graduate project, HEIMATSCHUTZ: Colonial Continuities in Schleswig-Holstein’s Harbour Cities examines the inherent inequalities in the architecture and infrastructure of post-colonial cities, and their role in engineering and perpetuating harmful myths in 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, in cooperation with Kiel Postkolonial and Flensburg Postkolonial.
Parade Créole, her drawing and garment project featuring work by Frantz Fanon and Anna Muthesius, centers gendered and racialised identities in domestic, public and professional space. Intended for work with entities which center intersectional feminism, Parade Créole has been shown in varying iterations at Alice Yard//Granderson Lab in Port of Spain, Studio Dem in Brooklyn, SAKUKU in Göttingen, Grind&Shine at the Kunstverein Hamburg Harburg and FREIRAUM at the Museum of Applied Arts, Hamburg.
Since 2017 she has been an Associate Lecturer in Fine Arts at the Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design in Kiel. She is currently working with fine art as well as design students on a Glossary, Unbehagen Pflegen, intended to underline the role of decolonial thought as integral – rather than peripheral – to art and design education and practise.
ONGOING/ UPCOMING
April-September, 2023
Publication
Unbehagen Pflegen
Fine Arts Department + Diversity Commission
Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design
Kiel and Online
June-October, 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
October 26-29, 2023
Installation/Panel
Unbehagen Pflegen
Fluctoplasma
Hamburg
PAST
August 18.-September 13. 2023
Duo Project in Group Exhibition
Parade Créole: Point de Noeud, Noeud de Point
with Annaliisa Krage
Vernissage 18.08.2023 19:00
Imagine Transparency, from Das Kurativ
Jupiter,
Mönckebergstr. 2-4, 20095,
Hamburg
August 21-27, 2023
Exhibition/ Regatta
Santa Maria Paraffina
with Anne Meerpohl + Luiza Furtado
Her*Storical Utopia,
Seefrauenparade
German Port Museum, MOM
Hamburg
August 13, 2023
12:30-14:00
Uncomfortable Tour
Wer in Deutschland Leben Will…
City Walking Tour as part of the 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
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
with Inken Carstensen Egwuom, Sybille Bauriedl
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
National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth + Cardiff
October- November, 2022
Seminar/Excursion
Anti-Racist Curation at the Milk of Dreams?
Biennale di Venezia
Venice