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Appropriation takes you on a weird ride
Single Screen Video Installation, 4K, stereo, 20 min., 2019
by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani’s newest video work 'Appropriation
takes you on a weird ride' (2019), investigates the phenomenon of the
so-called 'hobby indians', an escapist movement and fringe group in
the former GDR grounded in historic German enthusiasm for Native
Americans, which has also been described as 'Indianthusiasm'. This
fascination, especially with regard to the construction of national
identity, has an impressive chronology: it begins with the first-century
Germanic Cherusci chieftan Arminius and stretches to the adventure
novels of Karl May and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows in the 1800's,
through the ethnographic exhibitions (Völkerschauen) in zoos and
circuses and founding of 'Indian clubs' at the turn of the twentieth
century, onward to the appropriation of Indigenous identities by Nazi
ideologists, up until the present day, when new right-wing groups have
developed an unsettling identification with the Indigenous Peoples of
the Americas.

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