Tag: Nairobi

 

Invited to this international exchange project were Berlin-based designer and theoretician Amelie Hinrichsen, Alacoque Ntome, who entered the group with a perspective as a dancer as well as light technician, Awuor Onyango, who combines poetry, artistic research practice and digital means in conceptual projects of different shapes and means, Hamburg-based choreographer, music theatre and opera director Benjamin van Bebber, Frankfurt-based choreographer and performer Else Tunemyr, Leo Hofmann, who is a Swiss-German coder, composer and performer, Jared Onyango, who is a choreographer and dancer based in Nairobi and Melisa Allela, a Nairobian digital artist, designer and teacher for interactive Media at our partner the Technical University of Kenya.

 

 

Working at Technical University of Kenya, outside Nairobi…

… and at Goethe Institut Nairobi.

The interdisciplinary artistic team started its shared process in a two-week working phase in Nairobi in March 2017 and continued the collaboration in Frankfurt just before NODE17. The exchange of the artists, the discussion of the dispositive of hope and the reflection on the different circumstances of production were central for the project.

Out of that distinctive working process the artists have created a performative installation that was first showcased in Nairobi.

The final result was presented during NODE17 as part of the exhibition and was accompanied by a series of performances during the week.

anxiety anxiety (i tried to write a poem on hope but didn’t find a title)

 

Somewhere under the rainbow we sat down and analyzed its colors till it got dark. We thought, we sang and we danced, keeping up the spirit. We looked at screens for messages of hope, we looked beyond, we said our prayers. We loitered in the sun, waited for the rain and the winds of change to come. We climbed up a hill, we faced wilderness, and blinding light of love. We got used to it. We worked on, we read, we sang and we danced. We shared our thoughts and when we parted – nothing was finished. More is to come, more is to share and if we hold on to it……*CODE HOPE-SAFE STATION*…….Ground control……there’s trouble till the robins come….plz join as much u can…

CCL Nairobi / Frankfurt Artists, 2017

 
 

About the Artists

 
 

Project Partners

 

We have to express our thankfulness to Goethe Insitut Nairobi who made this exchange possible and to the Technical University of Kenya who supported us with providing funding, space, inspiring ideas and the right ground to continue a deepening relationship with the German and Kenyan digital arts scenes.

 

 

NODE Team

 

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Curator, Dramaturg

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