Assemble

You, most dangerous woman
a powerful organic machine
you, most dangerous woman
Of flesh, blood and bone...

Wary Mary, Dafna Maimon, 2019 (performed here by Lulu Obermayer)

For the next ASSEMBLE talk at the Volksbuehne Grüner Salon we revisit ASSEMBLE‘s summer production: "Wary Mary" by Dafna Maimon, conceived for the Tieranatomisches Theater.
Dafna is joined in conversation with Victoria Camblin, executive editor of magazine, and Agata Lisiak, professor of Migration Studies at Bard College Berlin

Join us November 5th at 19h, Volksbühne Grüner Salon, 5€/3€ reduced, in English.
Tickets: https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=19149&language=en

Photos by Frank Sperling. Performers: Lulu Obermayer Emma Waltraud Howes Rosalind Masson Leah Katz

Assemble: Dafna Maimon with Victoria Camblin and Agata Lisiak

“When we listen before seeing, the voice and the sound waves interact between consciousness and hallucinations allowing the rhythm to experience different conditions of perception, interrupting predetermined expectations through the manipulation of rhythm, we create movements of energy. This energy determines collective behaviour and paves the way for new ways of producing knowledge” Nkisi in Griotmag

On September 25th at 21h Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke, Nkisi present Sènsa, with lighting by Ariel Efraim AshbelAshbel, a performance combining sound, movement and light, taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the African Bantu (sub-Saharan language family).
Pre-registration is sold out but we may have a few tickets left at the door.

Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Photo: Nkisi
Credit: Susu Laroche

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)




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"I am interested in multiplicity and overlay – multiple logics that may clash. In my work, there is always a part of me that is interested in abstracting bodies, ideas and references. In the process of abstracting, I feel there is something that references an understanding of q***rness and blackness as modes of production. (...) I hope to explore a tension between moments of erasure and hypervisibility, and the seemingly impossibility of escaping this pattern when black and q***r in the West.
I am conscious of q***r artists of colour often becoming a screen of projection. I feel you are asked to take on board all the non-white issues and all the non-straight issues; you become the voice of the oppressed. You are supposed to address gentrification, Brexit and social violence etc… People often don’t realise that being here - and making yourself visible - is enough to put you at risk."
Paul Maheke, in conversation with Ellen Greig (Chisenhale Gallery)

On September 25th at 21h Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke and Nkisi present Sènsa, a performance combining sound, movement and light (by Ariel Efraim Ashbel), taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the Bantu-Kongo.
Pre-registration is sold out but we may have a few tickets left at the door.
Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Photo: Chimbu et les Autres, 2018 performed by Paul Maheke at il Orto Botanico di Palermo as part Manifesta 12 ‘Can Nature Protest’ public program curated by Aleppo
Credit: Dario di Liberti

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)



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Journalist Claudia Galal on Nkisii's debut album "7 Directions":

"7 Directions explores African polyrhythms through the lens of the new electronic music trends and it is essentially based on the interpretation of the writings of the Congolese scholar Kimbwandende Kia Fu-Kiau Bunseki, the leading authority on Bantu-Kongo cosmology. The “Journey of the Seven Directions” is a key concept in this religion, which sees the concrete dimension prevail over abstraction and admits the possibility of manipulating nature and matter in its various forms."

On September 25th at 21h Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke and Nkisi present Sènsa, a performance combining sound, movement and light (from Ariel Efraim Ashbel), taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the Bantu-Kongo.
Pre-registration is sold out but we may have a few tickets at the door.

Photo: 7 Directions
Credit: Dave Gaskarth

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)



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