• Julien Creuzet: La pluie a rendu cela possible depuis le morne en colère, la montagne est restée silencieuse. Des impacts de la guerre, des gouttes missile. Après tout cela, peut-être que le volcan protestera à son tour. – Toute la distance de la mer (…)
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    EAU PALIMPSESTE

    A series of readings, conversations and performances curated by Mawena Yehouessi.
    “Following Julien Creuzet’s invitation to echo the back-washing of his works and words, I wished to activate a series of readings, conversations and performances which, each in their own way, would convey/dissipate those words: There are stories of waters between us.”

    At Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    Les eaux flux-web : Marée Noire, M.Y, 2017. From a selection of videoclips: Treasure, PURE, 2017 / Woza, MAMI WATA, 2017 / Overcome, LAURA MVULA, 2016 / Brujas, PRINCESS NOKIA, 2016 / Dawn in Luxor, KAHLIL JOSEPH, 2014 / River, IBEYI, 2014

    PAST EVENTS

    At Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018

    I.e. « Emules-appâts »
    Performances
    at 7:15 p.m.
    Eau palimpseste, a re-writing by Mawena Yehouessi

    at 8:15 p.m.
    Alter et Mézigue, a performance by Fallon Mayanja with Aminata Labor, Sarah Melloul, Yanisse Lalouci and Christian Kimena.


    Thursday, March 1st, 6:30 p.m.

    In conversation
    lacrimonial corrosivity: the bitter waters’ ebb.
    Aman Iwan (collective) x Emanuele Coccia

    The Aman Iwan collective concerns itself with neglected territories and populations in a transdisciplinary and collaborative manner. Through publishing, architecture and construction, they take into account the various forces balancing a territory and fight against the disappearance of local traditions and forms of knowledge.

    Emanuele Coccia has been teaching at EHESS, Paris, since 2011. He was guest researcher and guest professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia, and Freiburg-im-Breigau. His bold philosophical works focus on the narratives of religious normativity and aesthetics, notably on the power and ontological status of images in fashion and advertising, as well as on building new metaphysics of sensibility.

    Performance
    SALIVA - Inès di Folco

    Inès Di Folco was born in 1993 and studies at the Paris school of Fine Arts. She works with painting and drawing. Additionally, she plays in various music groups that focus on improvisation in the RnB and rock genres: Pira Pora, Rose Mercie, La Ligne Claire and Inéès.

    Wednesday, March 21st, 6:30 p.m.

    At 6:30 p.m.
    Performance:
    LIQUORS - Josèfa Ntjam



    Josèfa Ntjam / She uses writing to deconstruct the founding myths and narratives of history, which she parallels with alternative and singular histories. Her works and research highlight disquieting zones left by colonialism and its misleadings. She questions the methodology of history and the production of narratives using post-colonial theory, afrofuturism, “futuribles”, science-fiction, writing, video, and installation.

    At 7 pm.
    In conversation
    till the milk of laughter: p.e/a.nser les courants obscurs.*
    Nana Adusei-Poku x Daniela Yohannes

    Nana Adusei-Poku / Independent scholar (PhD) and educator. Her work primarily centers around three themes: • Cultural shifts and how they intersect with art, politics and popular culture, • Artistic productions from the Black diasporas, and critical pedagogy in relation to decolonial aesthetics. • She articulates these interests through her academic work, the development of performative lectures and workshops, as well as curatorial projects.

    Daniela Yohannes / Eritrean and Ethopian artist whose practice mixes painting, collage, and illustration. A painter of the Invisible, her work is a mystical, sensible and sharp echo to the often intangible dimensions of existence. She creates new myths, explores the obscure multiple dimensions of dreams, of the occult, and of the cosmos. Her characters are all interfaces towards the unknown.

    Saturday, April 14th, 3 p.m.

    In conversation
    H2O 3.0: floating and flooding across fluidity.*
    Anaïs Duplan x Tabita Rezaire
    * in English

    Anaïs Duplan is a curator and author of a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (2016) and a chapbook, Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus (2017). These practices led her to found the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color in Iowa City. She is currently the joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

    Tabita Rezaire is a French video artist of Guyanese and Danish descent, a health-tech-politix practitioner, and a Kemetic/Kundalini Yoga teacher. Navigating architectures of power - online and offline - her practices unearth the possibilities of decolonial healing through the politics of technology. She is also a founding member of the artist group NTU, half of the duo Malaxa, and mother of the house of SENEB. She is represented by the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

    Performance
    SWEAT - Olga Mouak

    Olga Mouak - From Orléans to Bordeaux; Mouak graduated from ENSAD Montpellier in 2016. As a comedian, she worked with stage directors Eva Doumbia and Milo Rau. She is currently working on her first solo show, which will revolve around the themes of genealogy, the perception of self, and notions of belonging.

    At Fondation d’entreprise Ricard

    Thursday, Feburary 8th, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

    In conversation
    the sea roars: to our withstanding ghosts.
    Pascale Monnin x Célia Sadai
    Performance
    BLOOD - Bocar Niang