Exhibition: ‘The Moon Man has Gone Under the Sea…’ Recent Works by Jessica Atieno, Jan. 22 – March 5 2023 @ Red Hill Art Gallery.

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Opening: January 22, 2023

Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery

Time: 11 am – 5 pm

Jessica Atieno will give an introduction into  her artworks at around 2.00 pm.

James Mweu and is dance group will present a dance performance in the afternoon.

Screen Prints on large canvasses

Jessica Atieno explores the role of historic photographic archives in reconstituting current perspectives within ethnographic representations.

“What happens when a photographic object vacates the space of the archive and is re-appropriated in the creation of a new artistic work?”

The exhibition is on view until 5th March 2023.

Exhibition: ‘The Moon Man has Gone Under the Sea…’ Recent Works by Jessica Atieno, Jan. 22 – March 5 2023 @ Red Hill Art Gallery.

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Opening: January 22, 2023

Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery

Time: 11 am – 5 pm

Jessica Atieno will give an introduction into  her artworks at around 2.00 pm.

James Mweu and is dance group will present a dance performance in the afternoon.

Screen Prints on large canvasses

Jessica Atieno explores the role of historic photographic archives in reconstituting current perspectives within ethnographic representations.

“What happens when a photographic object vacates the space of the archive and is re-appropriated in the creation of a new artistic work?”

The exhibition is on view until 5th March 2023.

A Single Lane

A Single Line: Conversation with Mamaza & James Mweu, Sept. 26 2015 @ Kenya National Theatre

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A Single Lane
Date: September 26, 2015
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Time: 7 pm
Entry: Free Admission

About
The immediate association one has in relation to a red line is a line whose function is to divide, to mark territories, to separate. ASINGLELINE wants to look at this basic, generic entity of a line and look at it simply from another point of view: a line’s function is also to connect, to link, to bring things which are far from each other geographically and mentally closer together. ASINGLELINE is a straight line drawn from one point which is the city centre all the way to a second point which is a cultural centre building: a theater, a museum or other.

The line is neither a performance, nor an installation, it is a thought put into action, meant to connect, almost literally, the public – society, and their art – choreography and performance, driving MAMAZA and the local team who collaborates with them on the project, to cross the city through its public spaces – squares, streets, parks – and its private ones – domestic houses, shops, restaurants – in order to accomplish the drawing the line. The action of drawing the line is based on the collaboration with the local team as well as with the different people who come across the line. It is therefore a process which occurs through negotiation and the constant search for possible communication.

After its initial realisation of ASINGELINE in Antwerp/Belgium in 2011, MAMAZA has been invited to realise the project in Burkina Faso, South Africa and Nigeria (by the Goethe-Institut), as well as in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jerusalem, Petach Tikva and Haifa in Israel, Maputo in Mozambique and in Venice, Italy. MAMAZA is now continuing their tour through Africa by visiting Cote d`Ivoire, Uganda and Kenya. ASINGLELINE in Nairobi is realised together with Kenyan dancer and choreographer James Mweu.

Admission is Absolutely Free!

More information available on the GI’s Facebook Page

James Mweu at One Off

Visual & Performance Art by James Mweu, Jul. 28 – Aug. 21 2013 @ One Off

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James Mweu at One Off
A day of visual and performance art from James Mweu with the added honour of Binyavanga Wainaina, to add a literary slant to proceedings

Date: Sunday 28th of July
Venue: One Off Contemporary Gallery
Location: #16 Rosslyn Lone Tree
Time: 11am to 5pm

Exhibition Dates: Until August 21, 2013

James Mwau is best known in Kenya for his work as a dancer.

In this exhibition he presents extraordinarily intimate photographs of the living spaces of his friends in Kibera.
He will also dance with Kunja Dancers on a number of occasions throughout the day.

Binyavanga Wainaina won the 2002 Caine Prize for African writing. He is the founding editor of Kwani and has taught at Union and Williams College. He is the Director of the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Writers and Artists at Bard College. One of his most recent works is the memoir One day I will write about this place.

Exhibition: Kibera ni Moja, Oct. 14-Nov. 11 2011 @ Goethe

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Exhibition Opening: October 14, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 7pm

Exhibition Dates: October 17 to November 11, 2011
Time: Monday to Friday, 1- 6pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free

In 2009 Goethe Institut invited the South African photographer Andrew Tshabangu for a residency programme in the framework of their series Contemporary African Photographers to Nairobi, where they worked with G.I. for about three weeks and facilitated a photography workshop.

Together with the Kenyan dancer and photographer James Mweu, the Kenyan artists Kevo Stero and Davis Kabala, they shot pictures of dwellings in Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum. Contrary to the stereotypical image often from high above, of opaque masses of houses and people, they instead show closely and in detail the complex lived-in world of Kibera.

In 2010 the Goethe-Institut Nairobi held a Carte Blanche with the Picha Festival in Lubumbashi where the project was exhibited for the first time.

Now they are going to present the works in Nairobi.