In autumn 2017, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, a post-migrant theatre in Berlin, hosted Ten Points, Ten Demands, One Festival—Republik Repair: Reparatory Imaginings from Black Berlin. As curator of this project, Griffith conceived and executed a program of a performance, theatre, film, music, and storytelling exploring the lived experiences of Black peoples in Europe through the framework of the CARICOM Ten-Point Plan for Reparatory Justice. Republik Repair addressed the global crisis of empathy in relation to these reparation struggles. Here, Griffith shares the limits and possibilities of mixing policy proposals with creative outputs through curatorial practice.

This presentation is complemented by a two-channel installation, in Lislehurst, of works that originally screened during Republik Repair in the BLACKOGNITIONS programme:

Repair (5:22 min, 2017): when Guyana gained independence from British colonial rule in 1966, the United States government feared the country would become another communist stronghold. Covert CIA interventions drove so many people out that it is now estimated more Guyanese live outside the country’s borders than within them. Repair shows how human and organic structures long to live in harmony with each other.

Entitled (5:02 min, 2016): what have you unlearned? When was the last time you were speechless? Entitled is a collective response to these questions, on which the Visual Creole workshop led by Karina Griffith at the Black Arts Retreat Souls Sisters Edition in Brandenburg, Germany was based.