Anguezomo Mba Bikoro
On Colonialities, Cannibalisms & Future Monuments
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Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro merges installations, sonic radio, live art performances, film & archives. Her work analyses processes of power & fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles. She creates 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 feminist experiences towards new monuments, reacting to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. She brings 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. She is the recipient of several awards including Fondation Blachère & Afrique Soleil Mali for Best Artist Dakar Biennale (2012), IASPIS Swedish Arts Council (2018), Arts Council England (2016), Goethe Institut (2016) and many more.
"We always supposed something would give us a definition of who we really were, our class position or our national position, our geographic origins or where our grandparents came from, but I don't think any one thing any longer will tell us who we are" Stuart Hall |
Her critical process is informed by discourses of histories, archives and theories on postcolonialism, diaspora, migration, identities, afro & alter modernism and culture. Her work reveals and creates moments of synthesis and harmony between seemingly disparate, bodies of knowledge, cultural traditions and value systems. An exploration of creolised identity, heritage, memory and homeland, the artist investigates systems of colonial past & present, tyranny, dictates of gender, traditions and mythologies. She engages with communities contesting handcrafted economies of art, politics, literature, ecologies and philosophy combining alternative strategies in performance and practice to deconstruct social narratives and work on processes and engagement rather than final products that answer to political anecdotes of the way we live with "Archipelagoes for Drexyian Mermaids", "How To Turn A Mountain Into Pearls", "We Built The Kilimanjaro", "Black A(n)thena", "A History On Lateness", "Future Monuments" and "The Moor May Go". With her approach both educative and allegorical, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro highlights the different tones of a society shared between delusions and ritual.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
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Havana Bienal The Construction Of The Possible 12th April-13th May 2019 Madame Tirailleurs La Casa De Africa |
WE ARE PRIMARY Nottingham
Art Residency July 2019
11 July 2019 lecture performance "A History On Lateness"
A visual and sonic lecture-performance on the practice of speaking with ghosts, bringing to light stories of women entangled in colonial and post-colonial experiences through the narrative of science-fiction writing and film. The performance reveals how the words of the mothers of Négritude were illegally recycled by German feminist writers after the 60s, and how popular feminist writing of the 19th century marked the domestication of language of forest parrots in Western Africa.
Art Residency July 2019
11 July 2019 lecture performance "A History On Lateness"
A visual and sonic lecture-performance on the practice of speaking with ghosts, bringing to light stories of women entangled in colonial and post-colonial experiences through the narrative of science-fiction writing and film. The performance reveals how the words of the mothers of Négritude were illegally recycled by German feminist writers after the 60s, and how popular feminist writing of the 19th century marked the domestication of language of forest parrots in Western Africa.
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As It Rises Into The Air: Listening In Practice Goethe Institut Mumbai, India 21 August - 5 October 2019 Black A(n)thenna |
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Forschungsmaschine: Verschränkte Verfahren von Kunst und Theorie Reparative Archeology Session. Zweitägiger Workshop organisiert von RAT Volksbühne Berlin 20./21.09.19 diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie Burna Hour; Postcolonial Poly Perspectives Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin 30th September 2019 |
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Decolonial Aesthetics Practices in Theatre After Europe Festival Sophiensaale Berlin 10th October 2019 |
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Towards Possible Futures
TURKU Performance Festival 18-21 October 2019 |
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Seminar Mapping the Postcolonial
On The Ruins Of Paradise University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Norway 28 October 2019 curated by Dr. Kathy-Ann Tan |
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Seminar
Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences with Rolling Eyes Collective 27th November 2019 |
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Embracing Realities Programme
Theatre of Düsseldorf - Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus A History On Lateness 28 November 2019 |
