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On many levels the performance realized an encounter between German colonial history and the histories of anti-Semitism and Nazism. This resulted in the multilayered and impressive installation Black Box/Chambre Noir, staged in Berlin in 2005. In particular he decided to highlight the under-researched history of the genocide by the German colonizers of the Herrero tribe in South-West Africa (now Namibia). When South African visual artist William Kentridge accepted the yearly assignment of the German Guggenheim Foundation, he decided for that occasion to thematize the link between Germany and Africa’s colonial histories.