Selected Publications
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. |
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. |
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum of Katrin Sieg (2021)On Squat Monument (Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat) and its related museum's intervention at Research Workshop on Colonialism in Museum Schöneberg.
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines efforts by European museums to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. A flurry of exhibitions and the overhaul of numerous large museums in the last decade signal that an emergent colonial memory culture is now reaching broader publics. Exhibitions pose the question of what Europeans owe to those they colonized. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum shows how museums can help visitors mourn historic violence and identify the contemporary agents, beneficiaries, victims, survivors, and resisters of colonial presence. At the same time, the book treats the museum as part of the racialized power relations that activists, academics, and artists have long protested against. This book asks whether museums have made the dream of activists, academics, and artists to build equitable futures more acceptable and more durable—or whether in packaging that dream for general audiences they curtail it. Confronting colonial violence, this book argues, pushes Europeans to face the histories of racism and urges them to envision antiracism at the global scale. Katrin Sieg is Graf Goltz Professor and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 
Performance-making is a mode of enquiring about culture and a strategy to respond to societal emergencies. Collective acts of thought and expression are an existential urgency as they broaden our understanding of who we are. As the world grappled with lockdowns, fear has permeated our very beings. Notes from Isolation – A logbook of thoughts and ‘momentum’ conversations in times of plagues embodies an investigative journey wherein Andrea Pagnes — who, alongside Verena Stenke, forms the artist duo VestAndPage — explores the essence of existence during the COVID-19 pandemic. He then shares his notes in distant encounters with artists, poets and philosophers friends who navigate the non-linear realms: Marilyn Arsem, Lois Keidan, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Franko B, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Stelarc, Timothy Morton, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, and eventually Ron Athey revisiting a conversation they had a while ago. At last, performance matters: politics and science to dissect, recurring patterns of suffering and pain to surpass, religion, colonialism, and gender fluidity found a voice within the societal crises that COVID-19 accentuated. Multiple remote visions and divergent creative thinking are pooled to inspect reality while caring for humanity, as to perhaps find a way out.
by Andreas Pagnes, published by Live Art Development Agency, 2024 | ISBN 978-1-8380229-9-0 
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Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa
by Karen E. Milbourne (Author) , Allan DeSouza (Contributor) , Clive van den Berg (Contributor) p.133-135 Featuring more than 100 extraordinary works of art from 1800 to the present, Earth Matters reveals how African individuals and communities have visually mediated their most poignant relationships with the land—whether it be to earth as a sacred or medicinal material, as something uncovered by mining or claimed by burial, as a surface to be interpreted and turned to for inspiration, or as an environment to be protected. 
In this chapter the authors examine the synchronous relationship between the artform of performance and the maternal. The contribution takes the form of a correspondence between the two authors in order to emphasise the relational, which is crucial to both maternal and performance matters as the performer must relate to their audience or the mother to her other. Additionally, both performance and the maternal privilege the body of the artist or the mother, the body which is making real actions in a specific time and place. It is through performance and live art that mother/artists' maternal bodies are employed as a transgressive site of meaning, allowing a renegotiation of what it is to mother and what is a maternal act. The chapter discusses the work of some of the most transgressive and radical bodily acts of maternal performances (Hannah Ballou, Amanda Coogan, Lynn Lu, Nathalie Angeuzomo Mba Bikoro), which are brought to public consideration through performance art.
ISBN: 9781835950166 
The STRATA Knowledge Archive is a collection of interviews with scientists and artists created as part of VestAndPage's performance-based art film project “STRATA”.
Gabonese artist Anguezomo Mba Bikoro works on tender transgressions, ancestral healing, transformative justice and future monuments. For this, they merge live art performances with installations, sonic radio and film to analyse processes of power and fiction in historical archives. For “STRATA”, Bikoro realised a performance-for-camera at the historically charged site of the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave. In the 1930s, the SS financed archaeological excavations that took place there. At this site, Bikoro unleashes an urgent discourse about Germany’s colonial past and present structures, oppression and their vision of postcoloniality, and the harm of patriarchy and white liberalism. They share and politically-poetically contextualize narratives of the ancestral archive from Gabon, Morocco and Algeria. They uncover the process of a queer ecology of remembering through the traces of the ecosystem and explain why art is a powerful tool in shedding light on silenced narratives. https://www.stratafilm.de/knowledge-archive https://vimeo.com/710374901 
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Magazines
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Gabon magazine | Running for cover | summer 2013 | Earth Matters
issue summer 2013 written by Paul De Zardin read article here: p.11-12 in english and french |
Exhibition Catalogues
Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art |
Museum Africa Johannesburg | South AfricaEditor: Thembinkosi GoniweCo-published by Africa World Press and Unisa Press 2012 ISBN: 978-1-86888-678-4 pp.172, Length 260mm x width 240mm 
A twist in the ta(i)l(e)
Berlin 3/2011; 52 pages Curated by Franceska Lesak & Bonaventure Ndikung published by Savvy Contemporary journal Berlin 
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Co-Lab Editions The Publication
Follows the journey of collaborative performances investigating new dialogues, collective and memory. presented by Marcio Carvahlo and Savvy Contemporary ISBN 9783000458286 
Take This Hammer
curated by Jesus Ahedo Bilbao | Spain |
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