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Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, the filmmaker behind Muttererde film series, the community organizer behind Black in Berlin and the former artist in residence at District Kunst und Kulturförderung? 
 
Born in Mississippi and raised in Florida, Jessica came to Berlin in the summer of 2009. She has built a career linking her talents and expertise to create works that are presented through performance, text, dialogue, dance and community building. She is focused on ways of dismantling oppressive institutions in order to create racial equity in art and theatre.

Jessica is a role model of how one can use skills and talent to pass a message that brings to light conscious awareness of aspects in society that for many would remain invisible/unknown and in doing so creates a dialogue that welcomes sometimes a much-needed conversation. Her intention to disrupt the status quo as the means for change is achieved by her ability to create a dialogue in a beautifully intrusive and informative way. 
In 2012, Jessica created a salon series called Black in Berlin as a response to the current cultural appropriation of Afropean culture by the German, English – language in mainstream media. This salon series created a space that invited all people to discuss specific topics and issues and comes from the belief that these conversations should not be kept internally but in fact should be part of a dialogue, a conversation, one that creates a community. 

You can also see Jessica’s current project, Muttererde, a beautiful film series for femme forms of ancestral history in the face of the often interrupted historical knowledge of the African diaspora in Europe and elsewhere.
Feature published July 2018.