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Listen to Karina Griffith (@karina_griffith_) read her quote about a blatant encounter with a performance of blackface at the carnival in Cologne. The video shows stills from her short film DIE UMZÜGE (English title: CRUDE PROCESSIONS), 2013, Super 8 film and video transfer to video, 7'10", colour, sound.

A picture of the audience of the conference Returning the Gaze 2014 in which Karina Griffith (@karina_griffith_) hold her presentation.

"The sequence of Black families is interrupted with a shot of a white woman dancing. She wears an Afro wig. Around her neck, a lei of plastic flowers, and under her coat, a grass skirt. Her pale face is painted brown. She moves towards my camera. We see the makeup peeling at her neck."

Listen to Karina Griffith (@karina_griffith_) reading her Quote about the “fake feeling mediated by blackface”. The voice over is underlaid with stills from her short film DIE UMZÜGE (English title: CRUDE PROCESSIONS), 2013, Super 8 film and video transfer to video, 7'10", colour, sound.

Karina Griffith’s (@karina_griffith_) artistic practice explores the themes of fear and fantasy, often focusing on how they relate to belonging. Her interests include exploring the intricacies of identity and the immigrant perspective while acting as a record of her family’s unique way of Caribbean patois storytelling. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute where her research on Black authorship in German cinema interacts with theories of affect theory, intersectionality and creolization. Griffith holds a lecturer position at the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). For more information about Griffith’s work, check her website: karina-griffith.com

"How is the performer of blackface in want? Their wanting is exposed through the counterfeit affects, the fake feeling mediated by blackface. Rather than truly trying to understand what it means to be Black, the performers try on their own fear of Blackness and mock the experience."

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