Exhibition: ‘From Here to When’, by Onyis Martin and Longinos Nagila, Apr. 4-23 2019 @ Goethe Institut Auditorium

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From Here to When by Onyis Martin and Longinos Nagila, curated by Naijographia.

Opening: Thursday, April 4, 2019
Venue: Goethe Institute.
Time: 6 pm

Exhibition Dates: 04th – 23rd April 2019

Both a physical being—a living, talking, conscious, active individual—and a way-of-being in the world. The wandering subject stresses the fact that identity arises from multiplicity and dispersion… There is no body (and nobody) ‘except in movement.’

Stacy Hardy, Achille Mbembe Idiolect

About
The 21st Century has been referred to as the century of the migrant. Migrants, as opposed to other political figures—citizens, foreigners, elected political leaders— are defined by their constant displacement, their becoming-in-movement. The route of the journey shifts in speed, filled with moments of waiting and immobility, the process of migration involves insecurity of some kind over a duration of time.

From Here to When is an artistic exploration by Longinos Nagila and Onyis Martin into personal and social reasons for migration be they territorial, political, economic, or juridical, as they unfold in the long fabric of time. The artists’ itinerary includes dreams, memories, places never travelled and places that might be called home. By questioning notions of nationalism, place-bound social belonging, the movement of labour and more, the artisits hope to show that this century might not be as different from those that came before and how we could situate ourselves.

We are experimenting with the notion of the nautomat, which we learn from Raqs Media Collective, is a spaceship of the imagination. We hope the journey of our conversations, our actions, silences, might expand and intensify our attention to the world and our joys.

CONVERSATIONS AND EVENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EXHIBITION
04 April 2019, 6PM
Nautomat 2: Exhibition Opening ft. Poetry reading & Coffee gathering, at Goethe-Institut
11 April 2019, 6PM
Nautomat 3: Artist Talk & Coffee gathering, Goethe-Institut
15 April 2019, 3PM
Nautomat 4: “Bunge la Wananchi”, Public off site event, Jeevanjee Gardens
23 April 2019, 5PM
Nautomat 5: Closing event with performance & Coffee gathering, Goethe-Institut
30 April 2019, 3PM
Nautomat 6: “Labour, migration and the question of the present – A performative reading and discussion”, University of Nairobi

Workshop and Concert: Nairobi Jam with Lulu Abdallah and Just Imagine Africa, Mar. 30 2019 @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium

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Catch Lulu Abdallah and Just Imagine Africa live on stage at the next #Nairobi Jam concert series at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium.

Date: March 30, 2019
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: Workshop // 4PM to 6PM and Concert // 6PM till late
Admission is free!

Pre-concert workshop will be facilitated by Mwalimu Gregg Tendwa of Bengatronics who is also a DJ and Producer.

Film Screening: “Sacred Places”, by Jean-Marie Teno, Mar. 30 2019 @ Kenyatta Market – Ngumo

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Film screening of Sacred Places this Saturday 30, March 2019, 4 pm at Room #5 2nd Floor Fairlane House, Kenyatta Market – Ngumo

Sacred Places: 2009, Documentary, Color, Cameroon/France, 70 minutes
French with English subtitles.

A Film by Jean-Marie Teno
Set in St-Leon, a modest neighborhood tucked between a cathedral and two mosques in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where 40 years, the world’s most famous FESPACO(Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou) showcases the best achievements of African film making. Sacred Places, is a film about fight to survive and maintain one’s dignity in a hostile environment.

Through the lives of three characters: Jules Cesar, the djembe maker and player, Bouba the village club manager of a neighborhood movie salon that also serves as a praying place, and Abbo a fifty year old senior technician who decided to be a public letter writer. Jean-Marie Teno lays out his rich very complex and profound observations on many paradoxes of today’s Africa. One of the many contradictions the director displays is the absence of African films in African distribution at a time of remarkable technological advances.

Jean-Marie Teno
Born in Cameroon, Jean-Marie Teno arrived in France in 1978 and has been producing and directing social issue films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty five years for international television broadcast and theatrical release. His films are noted for their personal and original approach to issues of race, cultural identity, African history and contemporary politics.

Teno’s films have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, and London. Many have been broadcast in Europe and featured in festivals across the United States. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California,Berkeley, a Copeland Fellow in Amherst College, and has lectured at numerous universities.

More about Jean-Marie Teno: https://vimeo.com/user5688138/about