Welcome to the weird, the sheer bizarre, the extraordinary. To the otherworldly. We invite you to imagine something more than what is right in front of you; to design another world next to this one. Unfolding through the lens of Afro-Surrealism, this parallel dimension will mobilize and remix oral histories, displaced artifacts, circulating images and beats to comment on identity, power and forms of representation within the space of the exhibition, the cultural institution, and beyond. A re-enactment of the historic room where The Berlin Conference (1884–85) was convened will serve as our headquarters. The room, one of the stages where the so-called Scramble for Africa formalized, and the absurdity of its history, are now available to be re-appropriated and countered. Inside, disguised as curators, we will engage in the design and practice of research, transmedia narratives, and forms of activism. Armed with diasporic imaginations, our aim is no other than creating a committee for the scramble for our collective present, starting from the territory of Europe.
