not only A.
11:27 min, video, PAL format, 2011
The video project „not only A“ examines layers of postcolonial structures and a nowadays view on former colonies. The material of the work contains of images of a photo book, initiated in German-South-West Africa in 1941, „Afrika in Farbe, unsere Kolonien “, by Helmut+Erna Blenck“. The images
are deconstructed through re-photographing, fragmenting and rearranging each image. With the altered reproductions the attempt is made to deconstruct a colonial narrative. The deconstructive moment is emphasized with a voiceover of text fragments of the essay „Jealousy“ by Allain Robbes Grillet. The french author Grillet-part of the Nouvelle Roman period, which marks a break in classic literature and broke with old conventions and narrative styles. The text does not follow any chronological or stringent form of narration. The title of the work refers to a, to some extent, still dominat generalization of the continent Africa without considering each different country and its own circumstances. Furthermore „not only A.“ refers to the multiplicity of colonial crimes worldwide as well as to nowadays postcolonial conditions.