Packing the Agelgel (አገልግል). Nourishing Reciprocity and Collective Survival in Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, and Vienna

Packing the Agelgel (አገልግል). Nourishing Reciprocity and Collective Survival in Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, and Vienna

Anette Baldauf, Anca Benera, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Tewodros Kifle, Rehema Chachage, Deman Yusuf, Mona Mwakalinga, Mifta Zeleke Berga, William Manyama, Daines Nicodem Sanga, Safina Kimbokota, Zena Mnasi Mabeyo

We are artists, scholars, and community workers from the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Ababa, the Institute of Social Work and the Department of Creative Arts at the University of Dar es Salaam, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Across three gatherings in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and Vienna (Austria), we explored how our surroundings are shaped by extractivism and dispossession, and how artistic practices can foster care, witnessing, mourning, and also an imagination of worlds beyond extraction.

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keywords:
extractivism
colonization of the mind
postcolonial studies
Glossary
sophisticated ghosts
cultivating care
other-than-human
limits of translation
traveling suitcase
grief
worlds beyond extraction
visitation
care
loss
hope
mourning
mud house
urban development
tourism
rhythm
solidarity
time and turtles
absence
the unknown
Addis Ababa
Dar es Salaam
Vienna
natural history museum
margins
togetherness
poems as painkillers
nourishment
survival
collective
community
East Africa
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