Overcoming digital colonialism and empowering marginalised voices – that is the goal set by the duo of digital artist Eric Takukam and curator Viviane Maghela. With their interactive and immersive art installation, they take up the visual representation of African identities and environments and give their culture back its powerful voice. The Cameroonian artists' residency provides the framework for a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective approach to deconstructing prevailing digital colonialism by merging new technologies and storytelling methods with African traditions, cultures and visions. Key cultural events are combined with the mentality and diversity of everyday life in Cameroon, its traditions, customs and joie de vivre.
The Beyond Gravity Festival is a biennial, interdisciplinary festival for digital arts, dance and performance, which will enter its second edition in 2025. It is organised in cooperation between the Theater im Depot, the Academy for Theatre and Digitality and the Kulturforum Witten. It initiates an international residency programme with a thematic focus on Decolonising the Digital. In this programme, curators from three different regions of the Global South work together with a maximum of two artists/developers from their region to create a matrix for project development together with a maximum of two actors from the Ruhr area or North Rhine-Westphalia. The residency takes place in collaboration with Enya Obert (digital and graphic design).