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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 his performance, ??Fullmoons later/ wata kulture II performance (2015), he references Etokobi rhythmic variations (cross-river basin, south west Cameroon), John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Amiri Baraka, (Why’s/Wise, 2009) among others and connects this with the ongoing Mediterranean crisis.
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 …
MBIZO DAY on Pan African Space Station – Wednesday Nov 30th
On Wednesday 30 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) will host a 24hr live broadcast of music written and/or performed by healer, musician, composer and painter Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986), as well as rare interviews with the artist and comments by people who knew and worked with him. During his short life, Mbizo helped to establish the Blue Notes, a group he co-founded with Chris McGregor, Louis Moholo, Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana and …
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PASS landing at OBA Central Library, Amsterdam
From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in Amsterdam, transmitting live from the OBA Central Library. The PASS live studio featured a 5-day programme as an experiment in speaking, listening, playing, partying and community; as a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive. Programmed and performed by Chimurenga, PASS in Amsterdam featured collaborations with artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and rebels whose practices draw from and respond to a variety of contexts; to prompt …