Projection Mapping/ Museum Cromford, Ratingen/ 15:00/ 2022
Pluriversum (engl. Pluriverse) is a site-specific work that interweaves archival material on colonial history, the cotton industry and forced labor during the Nazi dictatorship with set pieces of told history about labor migration as well as fictional elements and animations to create a multi-perspective image and sound narrative.
“How can we dig up, read, remember, make audible, teach and use history(ies) for our designs of the future?”(glokal e.V.)
Filmstills
Told in three chapters, projection mapping sheds light on the concepts of progress and development that industrial modernity has shaped. Pluriversum addresses the exploitation of human labor in the course of colonialism and industrialization, especially at the Cromford site in Ratingen.
The work takes up holistically conceived visions of a pluriverse world in which appreciation and the well-being of all – humans and non-humans – come before limitless growth and profit.
This work is a monument to the people whose labour power was exploited during colonial times, industrialisation and the Nazi era, especially at the Cromford site in Ratingen.
Karimi’s preparatory work included archival research about the location and the topic and interviews with former workers of the factory and their children. The recorded stories are part of the narration.
With passages from contemporary witnesses’ reports from the Forced Labor Archive.
Featuring voices and stories by Bedri Turgut and Dimitrios Tsiftsis about their childhood in the Cromford settlement and their mothers who worked in the factory until 1977.
The passages of letters from the year 2072 were created during the Pluriversum Creative Writing Workshop by the FFF-group and other residents of the city of Ratingen.
Credits:
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
A RanGBarang (RGB) Studio Production
Concept/ Artistic Direction/ Animation/ Sound Design: Parisa Karimi
Dramaturgical Support: Emel Aydo?du
Editorial Support: Cecil Arndt
2nd Animator: Igor Shin Moromisato
Music: “Harp Hop” Jeris
Sound Design/ Sound-Mix: Aljoscha Schewetzky
Speakers: A. Isa Araúja, Cecil Arndt, Emel Aydo?du, Kamila Biniek, Ay?e Draz, Kata Japuncic, Jules Huvig, Sandra Karangwa, Parisa Karimi, Janna Laatabi, Elizabeth Lara, Inna Lipovets, Elena Martino, Palesa, Btihal Remli, Mostafa Remli, Karmela Shako
The Project was inspired by the publication “Pluriverse – A Post-Development Dictionary”.
https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/pluriverse
Thanks to the editorial team for their support!