This article reprinted in Deep Baltic reflects on Latvia’s complex colonial history and the slow processes of its revision by focusing on the public-space performance by Quinsy and Jörgen Gario “How to count the spots of Der Leopard” in Kuldīga. They realized the performance by the monument to the Baltic-German duke Jakob Kettler in August 2020.
The Spots of Der Leopard: Latvia’s Colonial History Portrayed in Art
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