November 15, 2019
Esther Helena Arens, « The Plantation and the City: Rubber, Labour, Cologne (2) », Botanical Letters, ID : 10670/1.tb0io3
After dipping into research on the Kölnische Gummifäden-Fabrik, its colonial connections, and the lack of collective memory on the site, I wanted to explore different ways of writing with the historical material. After the workshop "Speculative Actions" at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in September, I took part in the subsequent sci-fi-a-thon and played with a few ideas. Here’s the text I wrote and read. School Is Over. They Said Ok I can take you, I had said in an unguarded moment, and th...