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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 with Sammy Baloji, Akinbode Akinbiyi and Kodwo Eshun on Wednesday 14 December from 14:00 -15:00.
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: 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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PASS in Amsterdam: Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji, photographer based in Lubumbashi and Brussels, will be in conversation on PASS in Amsterdam with Kodwo Eshun, Akinbode Akinbiyi and Adeola Engigbokan on Wednesday 14 December from 14:00 – 15:00. Baloji explores the cultural, architectural and industrial heritage of the Katanga region in DRC in his work. Questioning the official versions of Belgian colonial history through his research into various key archives, such as The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren in Belgium, Baloji produces works that confront …
PASS in Amsterdam: New Urban Collective & INSAYNO
New Urban Collective (NUC) is an activism and education collective based in Amsterdam. The collective was founded by students and young professionals living in Amsterdam, and aims to empower young people in Dutch society by providing tools for personal development and stimulating self-awareness. The collective also runs a bookstore and meeting place, New Urban Cafe, where the public is invited to engage in socio-political discussions, poetry nights, lectures, workshops and film screenings. NUC will be on PASS in Amsterdam with …