Artists:
Nathalie Bikoro (GB) I Serge Olivier Fokoua (CM) I Marc Patrick Tchambou (CM) I Willem Wilhlmus (NL)

Residence:
from 20th to 26th February

Performance:
Sunday, 26.2.2012 – 17.00

How do African artists contribute to the discourse of contemporary performance art? What are the triggers that set in motion the tendencies of the performative in the Cameroonian context? How do the socio-political and historical realities of a society influence the directions and discourses of performance art? And if it is true that performance is a practice in which a culture recognizes itself or reveals about itself, to paraphrase Victor Turner, what does the performance art by African artists on the continent and in the diaspora reveal about their cultures?

CO-LAB 7 will start with a 7 day residency with ongoing production of work and knowledge related to performance art thinking, affinities and differences between western and non- western and the possible reciprocal influences. A final event, on February 26th, will feature performance art works from all 4 artists featuring a lecture by Nathlie Bikoro.

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Curator: Márcio Carvalho
Press contact: Claudia Lamas Cornejo
contact@savvy-contemporary.com

Further information:
http://www.savvy-contemporary.com
http://co-labeditions.blogspot.com
http://mindpirates.org

This week we have guest artists from Cameroun doing a performance residency at our Project Space in collaboration with COLAB Performance program.

Ralf Schmerberg made a stunning Hommage to African people and shot this in Cameroun in 1996. We see this week and collaboration as the perfect occasion to show this film.

Hommage à Noir (“Homage to black”)(60min) is a 1996 film/ visual poem set to music, filmed to honor and highlight the culture of Africa. Director Ralf Schmerberg shot this film entirely in black and white, which is set to a soundtrack of African rhythms mixed with electronica.

Before the start of the main film, we will show some short documentation videos from the performance artists Nathalie Bikoro (GA), Serge Olivier Fokoua (CM) and Marc Patrick Tchambou (CM)

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After the success of our first edition, we continue exploring sensuality, erotica and specially non mainstream porn material, presenting you the second round of selected art porn shorts.

On two floors .. and in a few dark corners:

Films and porn shorts

Video installations

DJ set by Luz and Visuals by Joana Sousa

SEX JUNKIE
Julia Ostertag
http://www.julia-ostertag.de

LA MAMA MODERNA & TABAQUERA
Lucia Egaña
http://lucysombra.org/

LAS MALASMUNDO
Ideasdestroyingmuros
http://www.ideadestroyingmuros.info

and more..

Be punctual. Expect surprises.

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/232402130186459

After the Finnisage of Lionel Williams exhibition, we party in the Vereinsheim with Noblesse Oblige and Playing with Knives spinning their favorite tunes.

Noblesse Oblige
http://www.noblesseoblige.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/noblesseoblige

Playing with Knives (UK)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th841bpKuDM

All the info about Let the Sun Shine In and the Berlin Sessions can be found here: http://www.mindpirates.org/theberlinsessions

Two isolated souls from very different worlds, a blind Australian girl and a Japanese man on the run, meet and embark on a dark journey deep into the past.

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