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Communication design & decolonial questions 📍Berlin & Kinshasa 🆕 Mwano Studio 🆗 11 yrs freelance, 6 yrs SAVVY Contemporary, 2 yrs Stan Hema 🆗 Alumna Central Saint Martins, The New School, Burg Giebichenstein
Songs we like at Mwano Studio #2: The queen, Mimi Mongo, who left this planet far too soon to join the ancestors www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIQC... #music #congo #drcongo #rdcongo #art
Interview with Josie Fanon on Haiti Radio #fanon #josiefanon #frantzfanon #haiti #tiersmonde #decolonisation
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Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice (MA thesis in Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design) 🙏 A longue durée perspective on precolonial, colonial and postcolonial histories of adaptation and resistance through design. #designhistory #design #typedesign
🫧 Degree show time 🫧 Glimpse of my MA thesis: »Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice«. Huge thanks to everyone that was involved 💜 #signwriting #signpainting #research #design #designhistory #visualculture #designstudies #typography #kinshasa #drcongo #decolonial #art #theory
Happy to have contributed to this 💜🌱 Concert tonight in Berlin: www.tip-berlin.de/event/musik+... #berlin #joy #music #coverart #graphicdesign #jazz #punk #collaboration #crossings #drcongo #nadatshibwabwa #mwanostudio #skalitzer #westgermany #luisevolkmann #kikudinucci #friendship #graphicdesign
Homme Tshombo (cellphone man), a figure created by Nada Tshibwabwa, as it appeared in the village of Sao in 2020, as one of the very first arts activities of Mwano Studio youtu.be/ZgicE1QWIxA?... #kinshasa #congo #kongo #art #performance #village #dialogue #workshop #contemporaryart #nadatshibwabwa
Our Okra plants are growing 🌱🌱 Who can spot the soursop / guanábana tree growing under their leaves, that might provide us with the most delicious fruits in about five years? 🌳💜 #garden #seedlings #food #growing #health #congo #kinshasa #nature #agriculture #sharing #power #green #guanabana #okra
Multiplying decolonial whirls – second day teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. #teachingdesign #design #graphicdesign #photigraphy #colonial #archive #coloniality #pluriversal #congo #typography #signpainting
Meet Pagero one of the very talented kids in our neighbourhood who have become regulars at Mwano Studio 🔥
#workshops #instruments #art #music #contemporaryart #artivism #recycling #congo #kinshasa #rdcongo #congolesemusic #africanmusic #drums #rhythms #reclaiming #mwanostudio #nadatshibwabwa
💜💜 Such a joy to listen to Báyò Akómoláfé and Erin Manning thinking out loud 💜💜 so grateful 💜💜 centerforneweconomics.org/events/becom... #whiteness #blackness #racism #dei #freedom #minorgestures
One of our main readings during a seminar I will teach next week will be this book: "Potential History — Unlearning Imperialism" by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. It has been deeply influential for me, so I am really looking forward to discuss it with the students 💟 #book #seminar #reading #art #design
Instruments in the making 🥁🔥 During the last couple of days we have been collecting and recycling all sorts of objects with the children and artists in the neighbourhood… Now we are putting them together and testing them… Stay tuned! #accoustic #analogue #recycling #music #art #fundraiser #sound
One of the brightest stars in contemporary art from the African continent passed on to the extra-worldly. I am speechless, without words. May you rest in peace, Koyo Kouoh. And may your brightness continue to shine and inspire.
Some of my favourite people and places in Berlin "They strive to develop and promote an understanding of cosmopolitanism in the plural which combines visions of transcultural justice, peace and conviviality with an ethical commitment to difference and alterity." www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...
#atstake Fred Moten cited in Manning's "The Minor Gesture" #oldenburg #justiceforlorenz
#justice4lorenz #lorenz #oldenburg #niedersachsen #silencekills #defundthepolice #policebrutality #silolidarity #standingtogether
Lorenz, a young Black man, was shot 4 times, in the back, by the #police in #oldenburg #germany. We will not be silent. #silence #kills #racism #kills. We remember all the lives lost to #policebrutality and #systemicracism. Today at 4pm in #berlin. #schweigentötet #niedersachsen 📸 #ouryjalloh 2019
"When there is a song about the subject matter, the subject matter does not have the last word" 🔥 #cornelwest #blackmusic #music #bluenote #aminor #blackatlantic #jazz
Encouraged by the #support our #fundraiser gets [link in bio], we started the first part of activities around #earth #soil #plants #arts and #collaborativework today 💚 #mwanostudio #workshops #nature #congo #kinshasa #artivist #contemporaryart #courage #art #kids #culture #africa #afrika #gofundme
One of the best panels I have attended in the recent past ❤️❤️❤️ Seloua Luste Boulbina, Nikita Dhawan and Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, moderated by Maboula Soumahoro 🪄✨ @hkw-berlin.bsky.social #deberliniserung #1885 #congoconference #berlin #congo #pluriversal #coloniality #utopia #worlds #meeting #crossing
At @hkw-berlin.bsky.social a beautiful and hopeful conference started, departing from 140 years of the #congoconference to think worlds beyond #coloniality. Memories of the first year at #savvycontemporary came back & the first #graphicdesign I made there 🦋 #berlin #deberlinisation #deberlinisierung
Costumes come out in the open to recreate balance, especially in moments in which communal life is being disrupted. The artists Nada Tshibwabwa, Spiritus Bongonda, and Wijo created a performance for peace at #mwanostudio #kinshasa #drcongo this #eastersunday. #freecongo #contemporaryart #artivists
We say à bientôt, Prof. VY Mudimbe. Your incredibly critical, generous and sharp spirit will stay with us, even though your material being has passed ✦ To one of the greatest intellectuals of the Congo ✦
#mudimbe #decolonization #theideaofafrica #philosophy #theinventionofafrica #congo #freecongo
Here we go 🧚♀️ Nada Tshibwabwa and me are making our endeavours with Mwano Studio in #kinshasa #drcongo #congo more public 🪄✨ Go follow to stay up to date 💜 #artivism #contemporaryart #art #music #community #pluriversal #mwanostudio #design #liquid #congoriver #kongo
New things in the making… #graphicdesign #editorialdesign #design For the fantastic jazz musician, composer and dear friend Luise Volkmann and her ensemble Été Large 🎷✨ #mwanostudio Thinking about telling stories and all contradictions language can’t express 🧶
Thanks for sharing a screenshot. Wanted to read the article but don’t have a subscription for the FT. Guess I got the gist of it now 🙏
Almost a decade after the last American mining firm exited DRC, the U.S. is making a play for Congolese minerals.
on.ft.com/3FauL2y
