Karina Griffith

Guest Professor aus Mitteln des Berliner Programms zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (BCP) College of Architecture, Media and Design & Institute for Art in Context

Previous Seminars: Projekt-TPS: Medien-und Filmtheorie Mise en Scène of the Undercommons Sounding Out the Image Aperture: Black Authorship in German Cinema Sutured: Black Authorship in German Cinema Master-TPS The Decolonial Potential of Play The Gaze in Gaming Einführungsseminar: Medien und Arbeitsweisen

Research Topic: Black Authorship in German Cinema

CIN240H1F: Gross Out Cinema (Lecturer: Kate Russell) CIN 212 H1-S: Cinema and Sensation II: Sex (Lecturer: Bart Testa)

C.I.v.16: LIVING IN HOPE PROGRAM #5 CURATED BY KARINA GRIFFITH ENDARKENED PERSPECTIVES This year’s Curatorial Incubator, taking place in these (as we say) unprecedented times, is a bit of a different beast. This year we invited eight incubatees to each make a program that responds to the theme of Living In Hope. In keeping with the restrictions of COVID-19, we are taking the entire program on-line, unrolling one title per week with an on-line Zoom conversation at the end of each program featuring the curat

CAMERA MEMORY FOR HUMAN FORGETFULNESS A film programme in cooperation with Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst by 29.05.-12.06.2020, curated by Karina Griffith. The streaming area of arsenal 3 will open its platform for the interdisciplinary digital festival Latitude. All information about how to access the films can be found on the website.

HIAP Open Studios The spring 2020 edition of the HIAP Open Studios took place as a special online event featuring a selection of videos, images and audio recordings by the participating artists! Since the start of the spring residency season, the world has changed in ways we could have never predicted. The current pandemic has certainly affected how we see the world, how we work and connect as a society. This situation has presented a whole lot of new questions and challenges for the spring season artists

Blackface: A Reclamation of Beauty, Power and Narrative Curators: Myrtis Bedolla and Jessica Stafford Davis Galerie Myrtis and The Agora Culture present Blackface: A Reclamation of Beauty, Power, and Narrative. In asserting the beauty of the black body, affirming its power — and societal and historical place, curators Myrtis Bedolla and Jessica Stafford Davis offer a counter narrative to the racist archetypes that evolved from 18th century minstrelsy, and its negative stereotyping of African Americans that

23 September – 19 December 2017 Republik Repair Ten Points, Ten Demands, One Festival. Reparatory Imaginings from Black Berlin Curated by Karina Griffith A festival from Black perspectives in Berlin: adopting the Ten Point Action Plan of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Reparations Commission (CRC) as a model for overcoming the impact of European colonialism. Republik Repair invites artists, musicians, scholars, performers and activist to come up with their political and artistic adaptations and tran

CIN 301Y: Film Culture II: Political and Global Media (Professor: Kass Banning) GER251H: Topics in German and European Cinemas Mobility and the Moving Image (Professor: Angelica Fenner) CIN105: Introduction to Film Studies (Professor: Corrin Columpar)

Group exhibition and installation "The Company We Keep" with artists Melody LaVerne Bettencourt & Lerato Shadi for "Prekäre Kunst: Protest & Widerstand". The symposium's program included two artist talks about my work.

A 2-channel video installation about "crochet and the Black Atlantic" for FLOW – exhibition and talks by Goldmsiths Alumni (Berlin).

Sonderausgabe Kiezmonatsschau – Black Perspectives In der Berliner Stadtgeschichte gibt es viele Orte, die einen Bezug zum deutschen Kolonialismus haben. Doch wo finden sich diese Orte? Welche Orte sind sichtbar und welche verstecken sich und treten nur bei genauerem Hinsehen zum Vorschein? Warum werden die Spuren des Kolonialismus in Berlin nicht öffentlich diskutiert? Warum werden Straßen nicht umbenannt, obwohl sie Menschen ehren, die Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit begangen haben? Sebastian Fleary

I facilitate discussions and promote thoughts around decolonization after the dance performances, film screenings and lectures taking place as part of the festival: WE ARE TOMORROW - VISIONS AND RETROSPECTION ON OCCASION OF THE 1884 BERLIN CONFERENCE at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Theatre in Berlin. http://www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/we_are_tomorrow

Why are some plants desired in our gardens, and others, uprooted and discouraged to flourish? How can we expect seeds and people to respect borders if opportunities for growth are disparate on either side? Inspired by the continuing struggle of African refugees stranded in Berlin, Germany without the basic rights to work and move freely, UNKRAUT is a visual representation of the filmmaker's experience with European xenophobia.

Two “movements of people”: the carnival practices in Buenos Aires and Cologne and the forced migration of Africans across the Atlantic. Since 1929, the “Original Negerkoepp E.V.” have participated in Cologne carnival in blackface, with the sole explanation of parody and “good fun.” The film takes us across the Atlantic, from the festivities in Cologne to the ports of Salvador de Bahia, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Crude Processions is a non-verbal exploration of the filmmaker’s reaction to witnessing blackf

A woman discovers that the sound she hears is the secret language of plants, and that the only way to cure her tinnitus is to learn to speak it.

I analyse fashion and social trends to help determine the design direction of a German lifestyle brand. I also take care of brand communication, public relations and retail marketing from our designroom in Berlin.