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Anguezomo Mba Bikoro merges immersive installations, sonic radio, live art performances, archaeology, film & archives. Their work complicates linear readings and representations of histories pursuing parafiction as a radical black queer feminist strategy to disrupt the notion of a single authorial voice. Their work analyses processes of power & fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles. They create environments for untold narratives of resistance movements by African women and indigenous communities. Sedimented in narratives are testimonies of sonic nature archives, queering ecologies and postcolonial black radical feminist experiences towards new monuments, reacting to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. They bring new investigations about the architectures of racisms in cities, the archeologies of urban spaces & economies of tradition systems by exposing the limitations of technologies as functional memory records.
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Dortmunder U Expressionism here and now! The Horn Collection Sat 28.10.2023-Sun 02/18/2024 level 6, Group exhibition Museum Ostwall in the Dortmunder U shows important works of Expressionism with more than 120 central works of Expressionism, including works by Alexej von Jawlensky, Käthe Kollwitz, the artists' association Brücke and Christian Rohlfs, the renowned Bettina and Rolf Horn collection can be seen for the first time in Dortmund from October 28, 2023 to February 18, 2024. In the Museum Ostwall, the Museum Ostwall's own collections and contemporary works, supplemented by works from the Kirchner Museum Davos as well as photo and archive material, enter into a dialogue with the Horn Collection. The focus is on a contemporary historical perspective from today's perspective, whereby the relationship between past, present and future is questioned from a decolonial perspective. With works by Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Lisa Hilli, Natasha A. Kelly, Moses März and Luiza Prado, the Dortmund exhibition presents current perspectives on “Expressionism here and now!”, allows Dortmund citizens and initiatives to have their say in video interviews and invites visitors the visitors*, selected works in the context of Black German history and topics such as industrialization, technical progress. Moved, or What My Bones Know Kunstverein Tiergarten Gallerie 1 Sep – 28 Oct 2023 Obeah: The Enlightened Witness a Performance and conversation with Anguezomo Mba Bikoro Fri 20 Oct 2023, from 2 pm |
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"The House of Dream" workshop
Reparation Rituals for Unlearning Violence with Anguezomo Mba Bikoro & guests October 8th, 14:00-19:00 | Ausland Berlin The session is a multi-sensory workshop focusing on legal resources, somatic therapy, healing historical trauma, collective readings and ancestral healing as tools of protection against domestic violence notably within queer relationships. Focusing on radical black feminist queer practices through activism and transformational justice, we will focus on short readings from Semra Ertan, Carmen Maria Machado and Bell Hooks to introduce trauma-informed healing bodies as tools against institutional and domestic abuse within queer migrant affected communities focusing on race relations. Artistic sonic, film and print material from International Women* Space and Nyabinghi Lab introduce voices from black feminist resistance movements through drawing therapy. We discover what are safe and consensual exchanges, releasing trauma from our bodies; processing grief and trauma bond; tools to safely exit spaces of coercive control; somatic expression and voice; somatic tools for self-care and protection rituals for growth. The workshop invites special guests and is part of an ongoing series in collaboration with Nyabinghi Lab, International Women’s Space and WeAreBornFree Empowerment Radio. As part of the session, a donation will be sent to the organisation Women In Exile because community is anchored in mutual respect, support, acknowledgment and solidarity. |
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Kitchen Table Conversations 30.09.2023 Xartsplitta Berlin |
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VIVA Art Action Quebec and Montreal September 2023 Live Performance Actions Canada |
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Le Devoir De Résister curated by Serge Olivier Fokoua 09.09.2023 Québéc, Canada |
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Le Devoir De Résister curated by Serge Olivier Fokoua 06.09.2023 Gatineau Ottawa, Canada |
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Exhibition | Galeria do Goethe Institut Salvador-Bahia | 31.08 - 22.09.2023
OBEAH: Um Ritual de Plantio para a Transformação dos Arquivos das Mulheres with Ani Ganzala, Sara da Nova Quadros Côrtes, Ivana Magalhães, Vilma Santos, Gabriela Barretto de Sá, Isabelle do Vale, Lázaro Roberto, Ana Caroline da Conceiçao Silva, Maria Eduarda Rocha Soto Toledo and Anguezomo Mba Bikoro With support and in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Salvador-Bahia through the international programme VILA SUL as well as through the KreativLab, Fundação Pierre Verger, Quintal Sensorial, Nova Estação, Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia, Zumví Arquivo Afro Fotográfico, Juristas Negra and Memorial da Faculdade de Direito da UFBA. As well as through the contributions and inspirations received through Guia Negro, Fórum Ruy Barbosa, Feira de São Joaquim, the Kilombos Kaonge e Dendê on the Rota de Liberdade, Kilombo Tenondê, Paço Municipal Antiga Casa de Câmara E Cadeia Cachoeira. |
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Performance, Art and the Politics of the African Diaspora; Necropolitics and the Black Body by Myron M. Beasley | Routledge Publishing 2023 ISBN 978-0367136925 This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and decide which lives matter) through a lens of performance and art. Beasley highlights how the performances of rupture, which are of artistic, and historical significance, reveal both strategies of survival and promises of possibility. Artists and curators examined include Jelili Atiku, Giscard Bouchotte, Nona Faustine, Vanessa German, Simone Leigh, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Ebony G. Patterson, and Dianne Smith. The volume is an ideal research and reference book for students and scholars of Contemporary Art, African Studies, and Performance Theory. |
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Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art
edited by G. Aloi & M. Marder | June 2023, MIT Press ISBN 978-0262047791 This reader considers such topics as the presence of plants in the history of philosophy, the shifting status of plants in various traditions, what it means to make art with growing life-forms, and whether or not plants have moral standing. In an experimental vegetal arrangement, the reader presents some of the most influential writing on plants, philosophy, and the arts, together with provocative new contributions, as well as interviews with groundbreaking contemporary artists whose work has greatly enhanced our appreciation of vegetal being. Contributors: Catriona A.H. Sandilands, Giovanni Aloi, Marlene Atleo, Monica Bakke, Emily Blackmer, Jodi Brandt, Teresa Castro, Dan Choffness, D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, Mark Dion, Elisabeth E. Schussler, Braden Elliott, Monica Gagliano, Elaine Gan, Prudence Gibson, James H. Wandersee, Manuela Infante, Luce Irigaray, Nicholas J. Reo, Jonathon Keats, Zayaan Khan, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Eduardo Kohn, Stefano Mancuso, Michael Marder, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Elaine Miller, Samaneh Moafi, Uriel Orlow, Mark Payne, Allegra Pesenti, Špela Petrič, Michael Pollan, Darren Ranco, Angela Roothaan, Marcela Salinas, Diana Scherer, Vandana Shiva, Linda Tegg, Maria Theresa Alves, Krista Tippet, Anthony Trewavas, Alessandra Viola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, B+W, Mathai Wangari, Lois Weinberger, Kyle Whyte, David Wood, Anicka Yi |
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7.07.2023 Moving The World Forward: Unlearnings of Archival Violence, Love & Black Queer Liberation in Publishing With Marlize André, Nino Bulling, International Women* Space MissRead, Berlin |