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Onome Ekeh Artist - Biography

Born and raised on both sides of the Atlantic, OE started out as a painter,
gravitated towards design and fell in love with cinema. Somewhere in the
collusion she went digital… She has produced works for film, theater and
radio and is the recipient of several fellowships including the Jerome
Foundation, Greenwall Foundation and the Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
Fellowship. She is the co-founder and conceptual gear-machinitrix behind
Futurezoo.net. She has worked as a dramaturge on projects such as Grisha
Colemnan’s “Echo System”, David Thomson’s “Venus”, Okwui Okpakwasili’s
“Bronx Gothic’, Annie Dorsen’s “The Great Outdoors”, as well as collaborated
with artists such as Carl Hancock Rux, Knut Asdam, Clarinda Mac Low, and
Paul Boocock. She is currently a lecturer at the Academy for Art & Design in
Basel, Switzerland.

the memorexe is a repository for her fiction, sound works, essays and other
investigations.Initial thoughts and ideas that triggered the question and the
brainstorming. The research starts of with a collection of images from
different sites visited in South Africa. Also other interesting references
picked up along the process of research that evoked a lot of questions
surrounding museums.

Major Notes/Quotes

“ it's expressed in the way HEK can present things Yeah, like, that's,
I mean, of course, I'm wrestling with this idea of myself about gallery
spaces in general, like the, the just
sort of clinical whiteness. “

“ it should be about the experience. “

Q & A Interview PDF with Temitayo

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Temitayo Ogunbiyi Biography
In her practice, Temitayo Ogunbiyi moves between drawing, painting, sculpture and
installation. Her work responds to and forges dialogues between global current events,
anthropological histories, and botanical cultures. Systems that capture, mediate, and
direct the movement of people and matter is a recurring subject of investigation in her
practice. She is currently working on a series of drawings and sculptures that fuse hairstyles
with botanical forms.

These works are part of the series ‘You Will’, which began in 2016 as pencil on paper drawings.
With the early works, the artist sought a degree of perfection that she had then perceived
to exist in hairstyling and botanicals. An interest in geometry and textures associated with
both of these subjects remains relevant, though currently Ogunbiyi’s approach also seeks to
embellish imperfections evident at various stages of executing the work. So doing, she seeks
a more complex interpretation of nature and the many stages in the lives of plants yrityksen
verkkosivu. The title of each work is a declarative prayer, beginning with ‘You will’, taking its
structure from colloquial conversations had across Nigeria where prayer can be a confirmation
of what is to come, rather than a request or plea. The forms referenced combine stories of
transnational relationships that reflect generations of people journeying across lands and seas.
These details inform a visual art practice that brings diverse references together to connect
specific communities and questions divisive boundaries.

Major Notes/Quotes

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Vera Sacchetti Curator - Biography

Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a Basel-based design critic and curator.
She specializes in contemporary design and architecture and serves in
a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles. Recently, she co-founded
Fazer, a new design magazine in Portugal; co-initiated the Design and
Democracy platform (2020–), which maps the intersections and overlaps
between design and democratic systems and practices; and served as
program coordinator of the multidisciplinary research initiative Driving the
Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-social Renewal (2020-2023), which
supports transdisciplinary research on sustainable futures. Sacchetti teaches
at Design Academy Eindhoven, and in 2020 joined the Federal Design
Commission of Switzerland.

Major Notes Key important notes and ideations

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Tandazani Dhlakama, Curator - Biography

Zimbabwean born, Tandazani Dhlakama, is Curator at Zeitz MOCAA. She joined
the museum in 2017 and has been involved in the Zeitz MOCAA Centre for Art
Education as Education Manager with special focus on public programming
and tertiary engagement. She recently curated Witness: Afro Perspectives from the
Jorge M. Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23 (2020), Five Bhobh: Painting at the End
of an Era (2018) and co-curated Nobukho Nqaba’s Izicwangciso Zezethu… (2019)
at Zeitz MOCAA.

Before joining Zeitz MOCAA, Dhlakama worked at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe
(NGZ) in Harare where she held various roles between 2011 and 2017. Recently she
held the position of Curator of Education and Public Programming. During her tenure,
at the NGZ, she was the conference coordinator for the 2nd International Conference
on African Cultures (ICAC 2017) which took place in Harare. At the NGZ, Dhlakama was
involved in curating several exhibitions including, Engaging with “the Other” (2013),
Women at the Top (2014), ZimbabweIN Design (2014 and 2017), Dis(colour)ed Margins
(2017) as well as several annual schools and colleges exhibitions.

Major Notes

The Zeitz MOCAA questions I had about the white cube were interesting,
the idea of the message behind the artwork is very interesting to my research.

Questions that unveiled the context of the master in exhibition is influenced. Is
something unique that I had captured as an aesthetic but had a lot of symbolism.

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Otobong Nkanga Visual Artist - Biography

Otobong Nkanga’s drawings, installations, photographs, sculptures and performances
examine the social and topographical relationship with our everyday environment. By
exploring the notion of land as a place of non-belonging, Nkanga provides an alternative
meaning to the social ideas of identity. Paradoxically, she brings to light the memories
and historical impacts provoked by humans and nature. She lays out the inherent
complexities of resources like soil and earth and their potential values in order to provoke
narratives and stories connected to land.

Employing sculpture, drawing and performance, but also writing, publishing and pedagogical
formats, Nkanga looks at the notion of ‘land’ as a geological and discursive formation, often
taking as her starting point the systems and procedures by which raw materials are locally dug
up, technologically processed and globally circulated. From there she follows the threads that
intertwine ores, material culture and the construction of desire with the redistribution of power
and knowledge.

Nkanga raises questions about the historical structure of a place, both physically and
metaphysically. She often refers to the different objects and elements in her work as
constellations. Constellations are imaginary patterns or diagrams which allow her to chart
the intersections of nature, politics, colonialist economies and different geographies and
histories.

Major Notes and Quotes

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Vitshois Mwilambe Artist - Biography

Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo, born in 1981, is a Congolese visual artist, curator, and
founder of the Congo Biennale and Kin ArtStudio in Kinshasa. He studied visual arts in
Kinshasa, Strasbourg, and Amsterdam. For over a decade, Bondo has focused on
transmitting contemporary aesthetics in visual arts within the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Africa. His curatorial work aims to highlight young Congolese artists nationally
and internationally, and to integrate renowned artists into the Kinshasa art scene through
the Congo Biennale.

His recent projects explore the representation of African and Afro-descendant figures in
history and mythology, with the aim of deconstructing colonial perspectives. Through his
work he wants to restore the fight of African people to their collective memory: these historical
figures that are so important and emblematic, but who have been forgotten by political and
intellectual history. His work seeks to construct a new identity and propose alternative
narratives through art.

Internationally recognized, Bondo has participated in numerous exhibitions, including "Congo
Stars" in Austria and Germany, "What about Africa?" in Amsterdam, and the Biennale de
Lubumbashi. In 2023, he was a resident at the Bridge Residency in Atlanta, a program fostering
connections between Africans and African-descendants. His work has been exhibited in various
countries, including Germany, Italy, Belgium, the USA, China, and many more. He was nominated
for the Visible Award in 2017 and won the SCOPE Art Foundation Prize in 2012.

Video Interview.

Major Notes and Quotes

After meeting Vitshois at the When We See Us Exhibition and his work is very
interesting as he dealt with performance in art. His insight was helpful and this
is important to the research.

His impact in Congo through the Congo Biennale is interesting, his
expansion to European exhibitions however not in Switzerland.

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Cherry Ann Davis Designer - Biography

Cherrypye aka Cherry-Ann Morgan (nee Davis) is a post-colonial, pan-African hybrid
ethnographic creator from the Caribbean twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago currently
based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her practice combines research, artistic inquiry and
storytelling traditions through a feminist, anti-racist and decolonial lens. The tenant –
“Story as Design and Design as Story” helps navigate the intersections of culture,
postcoloniality and decoloniality, storytelling and memories, the pluriverse, creolization
and Sankofa. Cherrypye shares stories with the aim of representing and respecting the past,
while also looking to the future to sustain stories through accessible formats.

Her explorations often manifest as visual design formats, writing and spaces to support,
as well as to share knowledges beyond the common and predominant narratives in design.

Major Notes

This research in interviews is a basis that to solidify the need for African
and African Diaspora initiatives. The importance of African Diaspora
community to become more visible in Swiss Art Institutions.

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Keabetswe Boccomoni Interculturalist - Biography

Keabetswe Boccomino is a South African interculturalist and curator
living in Basel, Switzerland.

With a mission to Inform, Engage and Collaborate toward a cross-cultural
creative community, Keabetswe uses her expertise to showcase the new
narratives shared through contemporary African art.

Major Notes

The discussions were just used to accentuate the diversity of different
voices from African and African Diaspora Comunity.
Some of these people are heavily involved in some art institutions in
Switzerland.
Curators in some exhibitions and their thoughts are interesting and
necessary to hear about my questions (When We See Us)

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Elisa Da Costa Communications & Cultural Worker - Biography

Elisa da Costa is a student in the Master's program of the Center for African Studies
at Basel University. She is a versatile communication and media scientist exploring
diverse topics, including transdisciplinarity, sustainability, Pan-Africanism, decolonization,
critical thinking, diversity and inclusion, and entrepreneurship. She identifies herself as
a dynamic professional working as a writer, researcher, communication expert, and
facilitator. Elisa is actively involved in her podcast Blackfluencers, the "Heritage Concept"
exhibition project, and co-curating the program for the tech conference "Forum de
tecnologia e educaçao" in Luanda, Angola.

Video Interview.

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This research in interviews is a basis that to solidify the need for African and
African Diaspora initiatives. The importance of African Diaspora community
to become more visible in Swiss Art Institutions.

Also to look at people working behind the scenes and uplifting the community
with no rewards.

Panel talk with Afrinova.

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This research in art events and talks is a basis that to solidify the need for African and
African Diaspora initiatives. The importance of African Diaspora community
to become more visible in Swiss Art Institutions.

Also to look at people working behind the scenes and uplifting the community
with no rewards.

Hybrid Space Collective Panel talk was enlightening.

When We See Us Exhibition.

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Attending the When We See Us opening then also doing research case study on
it was important as it is the first African largescale exhibition in Basel. This research
is highlighting important figures I read in my papers like Koyo Kuouh and even
Zimbabwean curators like Tandazani Dhlakama who ended up doinhg a short interview
with me.

I also attended dialogue sessions and other events asssociated with this to learn from it.

MYLES MUNROE
Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

ACTS 20:24 NLT
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