Zab Maboungou (CA), Kengné Téguia (FR), Parker Mah (CA), Lamin Fofana (SL/DE)
Curated by Ronald Rose-Antoinette
Launch: Nov 27, 6:00 PM
© Marie-Noelle Hebert, 2020.
Not having to abate its own fantasy, the confluence of these four breakers (Lamin Fofana, Parker Mah, Kengné Téguia, and Zab Maboungou) – whose outworks cannot but contextualize their interior complications – precipitates a catalytic sense: it must blue, cool the air down, which is the only thing to do, an earth thing to do... curl in something else’s wound.
Zab Maboungou (CA), founder of the renowned Zab Maboungou/Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata, is a performing and choreographic artist, philosophy professor and author.
Lamin Fofana (SL/DE) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is an artist and a music producer. Fofana’s instrumental electronic music contrasts the reality of our world with what's beyond and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Lamin’s overlapping interests in history and contemporary circumstances, and his practice of transmuting text into the affective medium of sound, manifests in multisensory live performances and large-scale minimal installations featuring original music compositions, field recordings and archival material. Lamin established the SCI-FI & FANTASY music imprint in 2012. Releases include Another World (2015); Brancusi Sculpting Beyonce (2018); and Black Metamorphosis (2019). Recent exhibitions and performances include Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2019); 57th Venice Biennale, Italy (2017); and Documenta 14, Germany and Greece (2017).
Parker Mah (CA) was born in the year of the Rooster. DJ, musician, multimedia artist and cultural educator, his diverse body of work tackles themes and realities of identity, migration, hybridization and transformation of cities, cultures, and people. His multidisciplinary approach draws inspiration from techniques of jazz improvisation and oral history, and converges in the liminal space between performance, installation and discourse. He is currently based in Tio'tia:ke - Mooniyang.
Kengné Téguia (FR) is a sound artist based in Paris, France. #TheBLACKRevolutionwillbeDEAFinitelyLOUD.
Ronald Rose-Antoinette is a Martinican writer and independent curator. He is the co-author of Nocturnal Fabulations (Open Humanities Press, 2017), an experimental book dwelling in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinema. He has published widely on performative and visual arts including in MICE Magazine, Flash Art International and South Atlantic Quarterly.
Associated event
Discussion
Guided tour : soul, with a difference
With curator Ronald Rose-Antoinette
We would like to thank Goethe Institut for the funding provided to artists Parker Mah and Lamin Fofana in the context of this virtual exhibition.