"Here You Can Be Whatever You Want: a Celebration of Afropunk" was exhibited in our Great Hall and in the Meierhof Café. Curated by Salzburg Global Fellow Karah Shaffer, it was a collection of documentary portraits and atmospheric images made at Afropunk festivals on three continents and in four countries between 2014 and 2018, celebrating Black festival attendees fully embodying individual expression through community, music, dance, and fashion. The tenets of Afropunk are “no sexism, no racism, no ableism, no homophobia, no ageism, no fatphobia, no transphobia, and no hatefulness”.
Photographers Kholood Eid and Melissa ‘Bunni’ Elian documented festival guests of all genders and walks of life in spaces unmarried to the weight of the societal and political landscapes immediately outside festival grounds.
"Here You Can Be Whatever You Want: a Celebration of Afropunk" welcomed Salzburg Global Fellows and Schloss Leopoldskron's guests in the Great Hall, surrounding them with images of people of all walks of life that celebrate unadulterated expression and joyful individuality. The show set the tone for what Fellows and guests alike can expect while within the storied walls of the Schloss, ensuring every visitor that here they are afforded the freedom to be themselves. Here, they can be whoever they want.
