“Kinkurimba”
Kabila Kyowa Stephane, Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage), Luyando Muleya, Banji Chona, Scott William Raby & Rikke Ehlers Nilsson
Kabila Kyowa Stephane, Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage), Luyando Muleya, Banji Chona, Scott William Raby & Rikke Ehlers Nilsson
Kinkurimba is a socially-engaged pedagogical project initiated by Kabila Kyowa Stephane in collaboration with f.eks. and Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA) featuring Joseph Chembe (Joe Sage), Luyando Muleya, Banji Chona, Scott William Raby, and Rikke Ehlers Nilsson.
With Kinkurimba, the collaboration has come together to prototype a new artistic educational infrastructure connecting Southern Africa and Northern Europe toward new cultural exchanges. This event will take place at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art’s Library to activate it as a site of educational production toward new agencies. By hosting an in-person and digital gathering as well as handing out a Kinkurimba poster as a collective artwork, the event serves as the initial public launching point for the project.
Kinkurimba seeks to highlight shared values that encourage experimental and critical approaches to art as a pedagogical and social infrastructure. More specifically, the project seeks to highlight ecological, non-commercial, and local cultural approaches to (art) education in Southern African contexts across Congo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to put non-western and counter approaches into play alongside critical artistic pedagogy in Scandinavia. The term Kinkurimba derives from a trust-based economic exchange that is often used by Congolese people. It serves as an analogy to not only establish healthy collaborative relationships between the project partners, but also support the curiosity, dedication, and care needed for the establishment of new artistic educational exchanges that allow places to connect. This is also a part of the project’s aim to create transcontinental networks and new infrastructure spaces that redistribute cultural resources and knowledge in a more sustainable manner.
A special thank you to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Anawana Haloba.
With Kinkurimba, the collaboration has come together to prototype a new artistic educational infrastructure connecting Southern Africa and Northern Europe toward new cultural exchanges. This event will take place at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art’s Library to activate it as a site of educational production toward new agencies. By hosting an in-person and digital gathering as well as handing out a Kinkurimba poster as a collective artwork, the event serves as the initial public launching point for the project.
Kinkurimba seeks to highlight shared values that encourage experimental and critical approaches to art as a pedagogical and social infrastructure. More specifically, the project seeks to highlight ecological, non-commercial, and local cultural approaches to (art) education in Southern African contexts across Congo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to put non-western and counter approaches into play alongside critical artistic pedagogy in Scandinavia. The term Kinkurimba derives from a trust-based economic exchange that is often used by Congolese people. It serves as an analogy to not only establish healthy collaborative relationships between the project partners, but also support the curiosity, dedication, and care needed for the establishment of new artistic educational exchanges that allow places to connect. This is also a part of the project’s aim to create transcontinental networks and new infrastructure spaces that redistribute cultural resources and knowledge in a more sustainable manner.
A special thank you to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Anawana Haloba.
Wednesday, October 30th:
Introducing Kinkurimba (Presentation & Discussion) from 5 - 7 pm
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Kunsten Library)
Kong Christians Alle 50, 9000 Aalborg
Note: Regular museum admission applies (BKF and UKK members receive free admission). Kinkurimba poster will be free to collect during the event. The event will be held in English.
Introducing Kinkurimba (Presentation & Discussion) from 5 - 7 pm
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Kunsten Library)
Kong Christians Alle 50, 9000 Aalborg
Note: Regular museum admission applies (BKF and UKK members receive free admission). Kinkurimba poster will be free to collect during the event. The event will be held in English.
Kabila Kyowa Stephane (born Dubie, 1993) is a Congolese curator, artistic practitioner and researcher working on the African continent. He recently completed a Master's degree in Curatorial Practice from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Bergen (NO). A member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), he collaborates with the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art (LoCA) in Livingstone (ZM), and the Centre d´Art Waza in Lubumbashi (DRC). He is a consultant for Agency Kolkwen, co-founder of NidjeKonnexion, a support platform for young artists in Lubumbashi and a member of Another Roadmap of Arts Education Africa Cluster (ARAC) - a network of researchers and professionals studying history, politics, and possible alternative practices in the field of arts education. He is currently a Gerda Henkel Foundation provenance research fellow at the Museum Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg (DE) on a collection from the Kasai region in the Democratic Republic of Congo.