影子马戏团

展览《影子马戏团》重温了西藏历史上被忽视的一章：通过中央情报局进行的武装自由斗争及其在全球地缘政治中的纠缠。提出的问题将涉及集体情报、监视、非殖民化和后冷战世界。电影制作人Ritu Sarin和Tenzing Sonam对这个问题进行了多年的研究，并制作了BBC委托制作的纪录片《影子马戏团：西藏的中央情报局》（1998年），主要关注中央情报局对西藏自由战士的支持和背叛。
　　影子马戏团重新评估了他们多年来收集的视听资料，并首次展示了他们的纪录片的重新编辑版本，以及照片、文件、信件、中情局对西藏的监视地图，以及对前中情局特工和游击队特工的采访摘录。
　　皮影马戏团是“档案馆”的一部分，这是阿森纳电影和视频艺术研究所与豪斯?德?库尔图伦?德?韦尔特合作的一个项目，是“新字母表”的一部分，该项目由联邦政府文化和媒体专员根据德国联邦议院的裁决支持。影子马戏团是由HooptStutkulturfdS柏林，歌德学院新德里和艺术倡议基金会资助的。
　　The exhibition Shadow Circus revisits an overlooked chapter in Tibet’s history: the armed struggle for freedom and its entanglement in global geopolitics through the CIA. Questions raised will touch upon collective intelligence, surveillance, decolonization, and the post-Cold War world. Filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam researched the subject for many years and made a BBC-commissioned documentary – The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet (1998) – that focused on the CIA’s support and betrayal of the Tibetan freedom fighters.
　　Shadow Circus re-evaluates the audiovisual material that they gathered over the years, and for the first time presents a re-edited version of their documentary, along with photographs, documents, letters, CIA surveillance maps of Tibet, and excerpts from interviews with former CIA agents and guerrilla operatives.
　　Shadow Circus is part of “Archive au?er sich”, a project of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of “The New Alphabet”, a HKW project supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media due to a ruling of the German Bundestag. Shadow Circus is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Goethe-Institut New Delhi, and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives.