OWELA Festival
Owela Festival was a trans-national festival during May and June 2019 between the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and TAK Berlin (Germany) as well as the National Theatre of Namibia including various sites in and around Windhoek.Themed under the “The Future of Work”, the interdisciplinary festival curated by Kaleni Kollectiv, a collective of Namibian and German artists: Nelago Shilongoh, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Veronique B. Mensah, Esmeralda Cloete, För Künkel, Trixie Munyama, Hildegard Titus and Julia Wissert. The programme featured various artistic performances, dance, installations, films, talks, workshops and interventions in collaboration with local, regional and international artists.
The Owela Works of Art Collection
‘Afterparty (offerings)’ (2018)
by the Artist Dorothee Kreutzfeldt
The size is 140 x 180.
“The idea of the afterparty/offering was trying to look at what is left, what remains. Both in relation to what ‘we’ are left with, in what way it constitutes an offering, place or possibility (even of a ‘we’, particularly in relation to histories, power and social relations etc). It obscures or abstracts what the party was about – what happened, who was invited, who may have gatecrashed, who arrived late, what still stands, who cleans up. The motive of a tent roof is drawn lightly; it indicates the kind of mobile venue that can shift locations – it could be a make-shift church, birthday or party tent. ‘Afterparty’ partly plays on ‘after tears’ in relation to funeral gatherings. More so, I’ve been interested in the temporal aspect of the prefix ‘after’, its duration, chance or weight.” Dorothee Kreutzfeldt.
