MAKING DOUALA 2007 - 2017
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Eric Delphin Kwegoue, Mud Man, 2010. Photography by Marta Pucciarelli
Ausstellungsraum Klingental shows MAKING DOUALA 2007 - 2017 connected to “Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban”, the 7th European conference on African Studies organisied by the Center for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies.
MAKING DOUALA 2007 - 2017 is part of the official cultural program around the conference. Find the agenda and a lot of further informations in the a*magazine.
MAKING DOUALA 2007-2017 explores the relationship between art and urban transformation in Africa. The exhibition presents projects realised for the Salon Urbain de Douala (SUD), a triennial festival dedicated to public art in Douala, Cameroon. Artists addressing the issue of collective cultural identity have aimed to re-install historical awareness or undertaken inventive infrastructural interventions.
Curatorial team: Marilyn Douala Manga Bell of doual’art, Kamiel Verschuren, Xandra Nibbeling and Lucas Grandin of ICU art projects, Roberto Paci Dalò, Marta Pucciarelli and Iolanda Pensa of SUPSI and Fiona Siegenthaler of University of Basel.
Produced by: doual’art, ICU art projects and SUPSI
Supported by SNF Agora Program
Artists: Philip Aguirre y Otegui (BEL), Mustapha Akrim (MAR), Malala Andrialavidrazana (FRA/MDG), Iván Argote (COL/FRA), Kader Attia (FRA), Philippine Barbou (FRA), Bili Bidjocka (CMR), Sylvie Blocher (FRA), Mariela Borello (CAN), Lard Buurman (NLD), C.A.I.R.E.: Kamiel Verschuren (NLD)/Lucas Grandin (FRA), Amandine Braud (FRA), Libia Castro (ESP/NLD), Olafur Olafsson (ISL), Loris Cecchini (ITA), Samuel Chêne (FRA), Collectif Autodafé (CMR), Collectif Kamera: Hervé Dangla (FRA), Stéphane Akoa (CMR), Aliette Cosset (FRA), Isabel Forner (FRA), Sylvain Ohl (FRA), Ginette Daleu (CMR), Etienne Delacroix (BEL), Eric Delphin (CMR), Cecile Demessine (FRA), Maksaens Denis (HTI), Romuald Dikoumé (CMR), Danièle Diwouta-Kotto (CMR), Sandrine Dole (FRA), Justin Ebanda (CMR), Dodji Efoui (CMR), Kouo Eyango (CMR), Em'kal Eyongakpa (CMR), Justine Gaga (CMR), Erik Göngrich (DEU), Lucas Grandin (FRA), Juan Fernando Herrán (COL), Chourouk Hriech (MAR/FRA), ICU art projects: Kamiel Verschuren (NLD)/Xandra Nibbeling (NLD)/Lucas Grandin (FRA), Serge-Olivier Fokoua (CMR), Jean-Jacques Kante (CMR), Aser Kash (COD), Frédéric Keiff (FRA), Joe Kessy (CMR), Koko Komégné (CMR), Achilleka Komguem (CMR), Christina Kubisch (DEU), Faouzi Laatiris (MAR), Goddy Leye (CMR), Salifou Lindou (CMR), Mauro Lugaresi (NLD), Michèle Magema (COD/FRA), Malam (CMR), Ato Malinda (KEN), Lionel Manga (CMR)/Philippe Mouillon (FRA), Landry Mbassi (CMR), Alioum Moussa (CMR), Joël Mpah Dooh (CMR), Edwige Ndjeng (CMR), Benjamin Ewane Ndoumbe (CMR), Jean-David Nkot (CMR), Boris Nzebo (CMR), Malika Ouedraogo (FRA), Laure Poinsot (FRA), Roberto Paci Dalò (ITA), Younès Rahmoun (MAR), Raumlabor (DEU), RAW foundation: Bart-Jan Hooft (SWZ/NLD)/Calanne Moroney (IRL), Tracey Rose (ZAF), Joseph-Francis Sumégné (CMR), Superuse/2012 Architects: Jan Jongert (NLD)/Arie van Ziel (NLD), Aimé Tallo (CMR), Pascale Marthine Tayou (CMR), René Tchebetchou (CMR), The Trinity Session: Stephen Hobbs (ZAF)/Marcus Neustetter (ZAF), Ties Ten Bosch (NLD), Léah Touitou (FRA), Kristine Tsala (CMR), Kamiel Verschuren (NLD), Silvain Wakeu Fogain (CMR), Jules Wokam (CMR), Nelisiwe Xaba (ZAF), Hervé Yamguen (CMR), Emile Youmbi (CMR), Hervé Youmbi (CMR), Yabhood Zohwko (CMR) and Roberto Paci Dalò (ITA).
Workshop
June 28, 2017, 2-5:30 pm
Literature and sources about African cities and territories. How to fill the knowledge gap and the use of open access.
! Department of History, University of Basel, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel, Switzerland !
For Ausstellungsraum Klingental: Annina Zimmermann, Thomas Heimann.
