THE TIGER COMES...

Projectseries about the life of the tiger in the foreign lands

As part of the project series The Tiger Comes... bi'bak has been running a continuous series of workshops for children and adolescents in cooperation with Berlin's educational institutions since 2010. The tiger comes to different neighborhoods and explores always new facets of the city. Each workshop is novel and dedicated to a current socio-politically topic that we playfully work on with the children through the use of different media. The children are actively involved in the process by exploring their topics in their immediate environment.

In all our projects, the tiger acts as a projection screen of the western gaze, as a picture of the "foreigner". In the project series The Tiger Comes... we are always dealing with the representation of the exoticized "stranger", as well as with stereotypes, stigmatization and exclusion of supposedly others. In doing so, we critically examine the orientalist, Eurocentric, discriminatory and racist assignments and views of migrants and refugees.

A project by Malve Lippmann und Can Sungu

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