I Cannot Decolonize My Body: The Kill Cloud

Presented as an opportunity to critically engage with the film I cannot decolonize my body: the Kill Cloud, on show during the exhibition Raining Blood: Photography and Arms Trafficking, this workshop invites visitors into a shared space of reflection on decolonial embodiment and collective memory. Together with the artist Tiara Roxanne, the visitors will explore how borders, surveillance, and extraction are lived not only through landscapes but through bodies and inherited experience. The artist will invite participants to think with the film rather than about it, allowing questions to emerge collectively. The workshop values listening, relation, and embodied knowledge as forms of inquiry, especially through analog practices such as notetaking, journaling, and drawing.

No prior knowledge is necessary, only curiosity and a willingness to reflect together. The visitors are encouraged to visit the exhibition prior to attending the workshop.

Tiara Roxanne (she/they) is a Purhépecha Mestiza transnational scholar and artist based in Berlin. Dr. Roxanne’s work rethinks the ethics of AI through an anticolonial, eco-cyberfeminist lens. Her practice investigates how artificial intelligence and digital technologies actively participate in territorial extraction, environmental devastation, and the displacement of Indigenous, marginalized and vulnerable communities globally. By centering Indigenous feminist methodologies, their research reveals how technological progress is bound to colonial legacies inscribed in land, bodies, and memory.

They are currently developing the concepts of digital attunement and the technological haunt through writing, performance, and curatorial practice, culminating in a forthcoming book supported by University of California Press (2027). These ideas extend their ongoing investigations into body memory and hauntology within socio-technical frameworks, asking: How do digital technologies reshape our nervous systems and memory schemes? And how might hauntology, refracted through Indigenous feminist and eco-feminist perspectives, provide tools for refusal, solidarity, and collective survival?

Bei dieser Führung wird die Ausstellung “Blutregen” besucht.