The artist Astrid S. Klein has been working translocally with protagonists from the African continent, the African diasporas, the Caribbean, and Europe since 2005, jointly creating many-voiced, sustainable projects. Her research is focused on the decentering of one’s own thinking, on the fostering of new relationships through different knowledge, and on opportunities for collective action. Her investigations trace connections and paths which intend to depart from the colonial library (V.Y. Mudimbe) and to permit vibrant, non-essentialist neighborhoods of multiple worlds.

Klein is a master student of Joan Jonas. Her transdisciplinary practice encompasses poetic-critical analyses in different media and public event formats. She is the editor of crossing-boundaries-of-doubt.net and the initiator and artistic director of quartier flottant. For her research she has received numerous grants and fellowships. Her works of art have been shown at various venues, including Hamburger Bahnhof –Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin), Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin), Heidelberger Kunstverein (Heidelberg), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), Wien Modern (Vienna), Le Plateau (Paris), Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris), Apexart (New York), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Doual’art (Douala), Goethe-Institut Yaoundé (Cameroon), Accra (Ghana), Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), and CCA Lagos (Nigeria).

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