S+T+ARTS4AFRICA
At the crossroads of arts / sciences / new technologies, the European S+T+ARTS4AFRICA programme orchestrated in Belgium by GLUON joins forces with partners on the African continent and questions the use of new technologies, including ICTs.
Experts and users of new technologies on the African continent question the added value (or not) of these technologies and their use. The program invites critical friends, agents of change in sub-Saharan Africa, and digital innovation hubs to encourage this critical eye.
The AfricaMuseum joins the programme via the STARTS4AFRICA RESIDENCES project which, on the basis of a public call for projects, finances artistic residencies on the African continent, in scientific, technological or artistic institutions and with local actors.
The first STARTS residency program is entirely dedicated to promoting innovation in sub-Saharan Africa at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts.
THE RESIDENCIES
SUUL KEËR DU KO TERE FEÑ
(you can't cover the shade of the tree)
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(c) KER THIOSSANE
The SUUL XEËR DU KOTTERE FEÑ (you can't cover the shade of the tree) project by the artist duo Mour Fall and Cléophée Moser literally takes root in Sebikotane, east of Dakar, to strengthen the bonds between man and tree. The disappearance of trees in the region transforms the landscape into a mineral horizon. The two artists are putting sound technologies at the service of trees. Using different processes of sound, visual and sensory approaches, they develop a method of listening and experimental observation to meet the inhabitants of the region and the trees. They account for the memories, gestures and connections that persist. This project aims to propose the terms of a new modality of relational conception with trees, and the recognition of their crucial role in the evolution of societies.
LES PASSEURS DE L'INVISIBLE
(c) Kenu Lab
This is the story of a broken pact between Leuk Daour and the Lebou* community of Ouakam.
An urban developer is trying to build a seawater desalination plant on the sacred home of Leuk Daour, the protective genius of Ouakam. She thus violates a thousand-year-old pact established between this genius and the Lebou community. This act provokes the unleashing of evil spirits creating chaos in the territory: the earth shakes, houses collapse, torrential rains fall on the landscape, access to the sea becomes impossible, the hot wind becomes toxic, rocks become volcanic, the loss of human, animal and plant lives is numerous...
The smugglers of the invisible, initiated into the Lebou mysteries, send two twin sisters on an initiatory journey to meet fabulous beings. They are responsible for gathering the elements, renewing the pact with Leuk Daour, and executing the Ndeup** in order to ensure the survival of their community.
*The Lébous form a community in Senegal. Traditionally fishermen but also farmers, they are concentrated in the Cape Verde peninsula (Dakar). They speak Wolof and are mostly Muslim, but nevertheless retain practices derived from animist teaching.
** NDeup : Lebu trance therapy ceremony
THE RESIDENCES
KËR THIOSSANE, Villa for art and multimedia
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(c) KER THIOSSANE
A cultural space for artistic and social experimentation in Senegal, a digital public space, and also a place of research, residency, creation and training, Kër Thiossane encourages the integration of multimedia into traditional artistic and creative practices and seeks to support the intersection of disciplines. The team focuses its activities on research on art and new technologies, and on what they imply in societies (residencies, trainings, meetings and workshops).
Kër Thiossane works for the democratization of multimedia and digital tools, in particular in their creative dimension, not only with artists, but also with the local public and within the reach of the greatest number. The collaboration extends to actors in education, the informal economy, the media or technology
Through its activities, Kër Thiossane seeks to link the development of digital artistic practices to other areas of society: education and training, creative industries, citizenship, ecology and urban planning.
KËR THIOSSANE
Villa 1695 - BP 10660, Sicap Liberté Dakar - Sénégal
www.ker-thiossane.org
Facebook / Instagram : @kerthiossane
Youtube : AfropixelTV
KENU LAB’oratoire des Imaginaires
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(c) Kenu Lab
Since 2020, the Kenu Lab'oratoire collective has been based in Ouakam, a district of Dakar.
Netali Waa Kaam (Telling Ouakam) is an action research, leading to the creation of a performative installation (dance-music-acting) that is intended to be immersive, plunging the viewer into an Ouakam in motion, restoring its cultural heritage.
Kenu means "pillar" in Wolof.
The Laboratoire des Imaginaires is a cultural space in Ouakam (Dakar) created in early 2020, under the impetus of the artist Alibeta and a collective of multidisciplinary artists.
The resource centre is structured around the activities of training, intermediation, production-dissemination and research. Rooted in the arts, culture and orality, KENU's mission is to explore the imaginaries, social practices and traditional knowledge of Ouakame society.
Inspired by research-action methods, the LAB'Oratoire uses tools belonging to the social sciences and popular education as well as to the artistic world in order to experiment with new ways of doing things together to produce new forms of collective action in the service of the community and reveal the current potentialities of the imaginary.
KENU LAB
Comico villa No 46, Ouakam, Dakar. contact@kenulab.org
https://kenulab.org/
Instagram : @kenulab
