02 Apr 2023

Public Program The Educational WEB

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Image from the film Tabaski © Diakus & Kelkoom_ realized during the "Taught to travel" project led by Moad Musbahi @ RAW Material Company with Harun Farocki Institute funded by Goethe Institut Visual Arts Fund
 
 12:30 - 14:15 
Projection_A Selection of short films of RAW Academie fellows 
Renée Akitelek Mboya, Dani Kyengo O’Neill , Frida Robles and Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh, Freya Rachel Edmondes & Tabara Korka Ndiaye, Sarah Kazmi, Shirin Sabahi.
 
14:30 - 16:00
Conversation moderated by Marie-Hélène Pereira
_On alternatives methods of transmission and about RAW Material Company approach and practice with: 

Renee Akitelek Mboya — Artist & Curator, Fellow of RAW Académie Session 6 CURA directed by Koyo Kouoh and RAW Académie Session 7 Images for our Time directed by Eric Baudelaire.
Yvon Langué — Curator & Graphic Designer, Fellow of RAW Académie Session 4 — CORPUS CALLOSUM directed by Tracey Rose.

16:30 - 17:30
Performance by Rehema Chachage
— Fellow of RAW Académie Session 9 — Infrastructure directed by Linda Goode Bryant 
 
#Participants
 
© Jacques Nkinzingabo
 
About Renée Akitelek Mboya

Renée Akitelek Mboya is a writer, curator and filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her custom is one that relies on biography and storytelling as a form of research and production. Renée is presently preoccupied with looking and speaking about images and the ways in which they are produced but especially how they have come to play a critical role as evidence of white paranoia, and as aesthetic idioms of racial violence. Renée works between Dakar, Kigali, and Nairobi and is a collaborative editor with the Wali Chafu Collective.

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© Yvon Langué
 
About Yvon Langué
 

Yvon Langué is a curator and graphic designer. He has worked as a curatorial/editorial assistant at Kulte Gallery & editions, Rabat, exhibition assistant at the Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts, and gallery assistant at Galerie 127 Marrakesh. Currently,  Yvon Langué co-runs —with Soukaina Aboulaoula— Untitled, an Editorial Design, Art Direction, and Curatorial agency based in Marrakech, Morocco. As a collective, Untitled was a fellow at Raw Académie Session 4—Corpus Callosum, directed by Tracey Rose, Raw Material Company, Dakar, 2018. He is also an educator at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech. 

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© Ibrahima Cissé
 
About Rehema Chachage

Rehema Chachage was born in Dar es Salaam in 1987. She is a visual artist whose practice can be viewed as a performative archive which untraditionally collects stories, rituals and other oral traditions in different media (performance, photography, video, text as well as physical installations); which traces hi/stories directly tied to women in the Swahili region; and, which employs written texts, oral and aural stories, melodies, and relics from several re-enacted/performed rituals as source of research. She holds a BA in Fine Art (2009) from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town; and an MA Contemporary Art Theory (2018) from Goldsmiths, University of London. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna where her research focusing is n the archive and its methodologies, specifically observing ways of doing the archive differently through one’s practice as an artist.

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© School of Mutants
About Schools of Mutants

The School of Mutants is a collaborative platform for art and research initiated in Dakar, Senegal, in 2018. Its starting point is an inquiry into the role of universities, public school projects, and academic utopia in post-independence processes of nation-building in Senegal and West Africa; it is informed by wider transnational networks such as the Non-Aligned Movement, Afro-Asianism, and Third-Worldism. A nomadic project that aims to mobilize spaces for the production, transmission, and pluralization of knowledge in a nonhierarchical manner, The School of Mutants engages with sociocultural, ecological, and aesthetic mutations of the real. It produces video works, publications, assemblies, and collective learning situations.

The project borrows its name from the University of Mutants, founded in Gorée, Senegal, in 1977 with an emphasis on nonhierarchical teaching and decolonizing academic epistemes. It connects this short-lived experience with the archives of other pedagogical utopias of that decade as well as literary and theoretical reflections on the figure of the mutant, from Octavia Butler to Édouard Glissant. The School of Mutants invites us to actively think about ways to deconstruct and collectively reconstruct the ideologies seminal to the experimental pedagogical structures that participate in shifting paradigms and recentering discourses on the African continent and beyond.


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© Moad Musbahi
About Moad Musbahi

Moad Musbahi is an artist and curator based in Tunis. He is currently co-curating with the Harun Farocki Institut the research and exhibition project, Teaching Travel, investigating migration as a method for cultural production and political expression, focusing on the pedagogical practices and forms of knowledge that movement engenders. Recent work has been presented in Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2021); Protocinema, New York (2021); Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (2021); Jameel Arts Center, Dubai (2020); Beirut Art Center, Beirut (2019) among others. His writing has appeared in The White Review(2021), Kayfa-Ta Press (2020), AA Files(2019), The Funambulist (2018), among others. He is a recipient of the Goethe Visual Arts Fund (2021), the Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme grant (2020) and recently a resident at Gasworks, London (2021).

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