Projection Mapping/ Museum Cromford, Ratingen/ 15:00/ 2022
Pluriversum (Eng. Pluriverse) is a site-specific projection mapping work and a monument to the people whose labor was exploited during colonialism, industrialization, and the Nazi era, particularly at the Cromford site in Ratingen.
The work interweaves archival material on colonial history, the cotton industry, and forced labor under the Nazi dictatorship with oral histories of labor migration, fictional elements, and animation. These different layers come together to create a multi-perspective visual and sonic narrative.
“How can we dig up, read, remember, make audible, teach and use history(ies) for our designs of the future?”(glokal e.V.)
Told in three chapters, the projection mapping examines the concepts of progress and development that have shaped industrial modernity. Pluriversum addresses the exploitation of human labor through colonialism and industrialization, with a particular focus on the history of the Cromford site in Ratingen.
The work draws on holistic visions of a pluriverse: a world in which the appreciation and well-being of humans and non-humans take precedence over limitless growth and profit.
Karimi’s artistic research included archival research into the history of the site and the experiences of its workers. She also conducted interviews with former factory workers and their children. Their recorded stories became part of the work’s narration.
The work incorporates passages from contemporary witness accounts in the Forced Labor Archive, as well as voices and stories by Bedri Turgut and Dimitrios Tsiftsis about their childhood in the Cromford settlement and their mothers, who worked at the factory until 1977. Passages from letters set in the year 2072 were developed during the PluriversumCreative Writing Workshop with the Fridays For Future group and other residents of Ratingen.
The project title was inspired by the publication Pluriverse – A Post-Development Dictionary.
See How to Connect With Landscape as another work dealing with ecological and decolonial issues.
Production:
RanGBarang Studio
Idea, Artistic Direction & Realization:
Parisa Karimi
Dramaturgical Support:
Emel Aydogdu
Editorial Support:
Cecil Arndt
2nd Animator:
Igor Shin Moromisato
Music:
Jeris/ “Harp Hop”
Sound Design/ Sound-Mix:
Aljoscha Schewetzky
Speakers:
A. Isa Araúja, Cecil Arndt, Emel Aydo?du, Kamila Biniek, Ayse Draz, Kata Japuncic, Jules Huvig, Sandra Karangwa, Parisa Karimi, Janna Laatabi, Elizabeth Lara, Inna Lipovets, Elena Martino, Palesa, Btihal Remli, Mostafa Remli, Karmela Shako
A project within the framework of Futur21 – kunst industrie kultur, the media art festival of the Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe landscape associations.
https://futur21.de/orte/textilfabrik-cromford-ratingen/#n-n-von-parisa-karimi