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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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Turn Illness into a Weapon – Artistic perspectives within healthcare movements
Kunsthaus Bethanien | 01/06–18/08/2024 WITH: Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, The Chronic Iconic (Jessica Cummin), Chloe Pascal Crawford, Criptonite (Edwin Ramirez & Nina Mühlemann), Miriam Döring, Tomás Espinosa, Eva Egermann & Cordula Thym, Lotti Fellner-Wyler, Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe, Cornelia Herfurtner, Kallia Kefala, Magda Korsinsky, Julia Lübbecke, MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr), Silvi Naçi, Sophie Utikal, RA Walden Curated by Linnéa Meiners Reacting to the healthcare system’s discriminatory structures, in 1972, the Sozialistische Patient*innenkollektiv1 (Socialist Patients‘ Collective) called to weaponise their illness. The group aimed not to portray illness as something individual that must be overcome alone, but to show its complex connections with social neglect and structural inequalities. Relatedly, this exhibition draws attention to the structural and intersectional disadvantages faced by disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent people in a late-capitalist, ableist system. How to turn illness into a weapon? The group exhibition Turn Illness into a Weapon – Artistic perspectives within healthcare movements2 takes its starting-point from the grassroots healthcare struggles around the former Diakonissen-Krankenhaus (welfare hospital) Bethanien in 1970s Berlin. When it became clear that the abandoned building was to be transformed into artists‘ studios, the initiative Kampfkomitee Bethanien, among others, demanded to use the space as a children’s polyclinic. In the exhibition, 17 artistic positions are brought into dialogue with the site where these specific political struggles played out. The artists criticise present-day conditions in art and healthcare policy, and point towards alternatives. |
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When The Jackals Leaves The Sun: Decentering Restitution | Pedagogies of Repossession in partnership with Refuge Worldwide Radio programme September-December 2024 Curation and Artistic Direction: Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Renée Akitelek Mboya, Memory Biwa, Jennifer Kamau, Rehema Chachage, Suza Husse Funded by Bertha Impact Fund (2021) and TURN2 KulturStiftungdesBundes (2022-24) |
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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 |