Unserdeutsch - VOICES

2023

UNSERDEUTSCH solo exhibition at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2024)

Diese is, are three video works made in Australia in 2022 with Roseleen Morris, one of the last Unserdeutsch speakers. She names the children in old photos. The children were primarily given German names as they grew up and were educated in the Catholic mission Vunapope in Papua New Guinea. Until the First World War, Papua New Guinea was a German colony in which the only Creole language that developed from German emerged.  What is Unserdeutsch ?

Sandy Benson is introducing herself in Unserdeutsch, 4:57 mins, (2023)

Roseleen Morris is introducing herself in Unserdeutsch, 3:27 mins, (2023)

Eddie Spanner is introducing himself in Unserdeutsch, 3:24 mins, (2023)

Emeline Wong is introducing himself in Unserdeutsch, 2:59 mins, (2023)