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PASS in Amsterdam: Kunle Adeyemi
Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect, designer, urbanist, and founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture and urbanism practice based in Amsterdam. Adeyemi will be on PASS in Amsterdam in conversation with Vo Trong Nghia and Lesley Lokko on Tuesday 13 December 15:00 – 16:00.
His recent work includes the ‘Makoko Floating School’, prototype, floating structure located on the lagoon of Lagos, Nigeria. This acclaimed project is part of an extensive research project – ‘African Water Cities’.
PASS in Amsterdam: Apitchatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter,film producer and founder of Kick the Machine Films studio. An unlikely political filmmaker, his works deal with memory and subtly addressed social issues. Weersathakul is an artist whose mesmerising, viscerally affective and intellectually powerful films show us a different way of being in the world. He is deeply intrigued with his own experiences and surrounds, having filmed all of his features to date within Thailand. Radically rejecting dramatic formulas and Hollywood …
PASS in Amsterdam: Adeola Enigbokan
Adeola Enigbokan is an artist and urban theorist from New York City based in Amsterdam. Enigbokan’s art and research investigates urban design and experience, and explores the potential for transformative exchanges in everyday interactions with institutional authorities. Her practice is informed by theory and methods from environmental psychology, anthropology and historical studies, culminating into her doctoral dissertation and ongoing work Archiving the City: A Guide to the Art of Urban Interventions. Adeola Enigbokan will be on PASS Amsterdam, in conversation …
PASS in Amsterdam: Aurelie Lierman
Aurelie Lierman, an independent radio producer, vocalist, and composer based in Amsterdam, will be on PASS in Amsterdam on Thursday 15 December from 15:00 -16:00 Her work fuses radio art, vocal art, and composition. Lierman’s main focus is gathering personal field recordings which form part of a large collection of unique sounds and soundscapes from rural and urban contemporary East Africa called “Afrique Concrète.” Through her work, she experiments with alternative storytelling methods which go beyond taboos and classic aesthetics. In her …
PASS in Amsterdam: Em’kal Eyongapka
Em’kal Eyongakpa, Cameroonian sonic artist, will be on PASS in Amsterdam on Tuesday 13 December from 16:00 -17:00. Working with photography, video, sculpture, sound, text and performance, Eyongakpa’s interwoven installations obscure the boundaries between employed media and distort the notion of the real and the illusory. He approaches the experienced and unknown transgenerational memories through a ritual use of repetition and transformation. Central to Eyongakpa’s practice is the quest for negotiations, coexistence and relationships between subjective and objective realms. In …
PASS in Amsterdam: Amal Alhaag & Maria Guggenbichler
Amal Alhaag and Maria Guggenbichler present: Radio Count Your Blessings “Some of us bake wonderfully, write, paint, do any number of things, have facilities with numbers that others don’t have. Those are your blessings. Some of us are very strong and candid and some of us are nurturers or combinations of all of those things. Just be aware of what your particular things are and nurture them and use them toward a positive way of living. That’s simply what I …
PASS in Amsterdam: Charl Landvreugd
Charl Landvreugd is an Amsterdam-based visual artist who works with sculpture, performance, installation, photography and video. He explores the plurality of black hues as an instrument to speak to our communal efforts to bridge cultural gaps worldwide and advocates for distinctions in black diversity. His curatorial and writing practice is focused on research as artistic production. His focus is on the visual strategies of Dutch Afro artists in the production of cultural citizenship and the role that local concepts and …
PASS in Amsterdam: NIC Kay
NIC Kay is a performance artist based in The Bronx, New York. Working in sculpture, video, sound, installation, collage and printmaking, their transdisciplinary projects explore movement as a site of reclamation of the body, history and identity. NIC Kay’s work priortitises the act and process of moving, and the change of position and place. NIC Kay will be in conversation with Nana Adusei-Poku on PASS in Amsterdam on Sunday 11 December from 16:00 – 17:00.
PASS in Amsterdam: Franck Biyong
Frank Biyong is a musician, composer and producer who lives in Yaounde and Paris. Biyong operates outside the boundaries which map the trajectories of African musicians in and out of the continent. As a producer and musician, Biyong has collaborated with Afropolitanist greats such as Keziah Jones, Tony Allen, Cheick Tidiane Seck and many more. He founded and leads the groups Massak and Afroelectric Orchestra. Frank Biyong will perform live on PASS in Amsterdam on Monday 12 December from 18:00 …
PASS in Amsterdam: Jeannine Valeriano
Jeannine Valeriano is a singer, spoken word artist and writer based in Amsterdam. She leads the concert series Spoken Beat Night, where artists collaborate to fuse jazz, spoken word, recitation and electronic beats, creating unique live performances. In her own work, Valeriano merges several disciplines into one to communicates a highly personal style. Jeannine Valeriano will be joined by clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Maarten Ornstein on PASS in Amsterdam on Thursday 15 December from 17:00 – 18:00.
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