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7 October 2017
Germination, 2017

Evi Lachlana, Otobong Nkanga


Otobong Nkanga, Preliminary Recipe for a Support System, digitale tekening, collage en acrylverf op papier, 2016–2017

Otobong Nkanga werkt samen met zeepmaker Evi Lachana om verder na te denken over zeep, een alomtegenwoordig product dat essentieel is voor onze gezondheid en centraal staat in Nkanga’s werk Carved to Flow, 2017. Als onderdeel van documenta 14 heeft de kunstenaar in Athene een performatief laboratorium opgezet voor het maken van zeep, om het vervolgens te verkopen in Kassel.

In de performance Germination roept Nkanga de eerdere fases van Carved to Flow op en reflecteert ze op de verbonden geografieën, tradities, geschiedenissen en volken die betrokken zijn bij de productie van zeep. Hiermee wordt een model geboden van sociale, economische en conceptuele circulatie.

Onderdeel van Propositions #1: What We Mean.



15 februari 2023, 10.00-18.00

A series of practical publishing workshops hosted by an active squat and anarchist social center in Amsterdam and organized by the Bookbinding Studio of Sandberg Instituut/Rietveld Academy and Lila Athanasiadou. 

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4 februari 2023, 13.00-18.00

Using the sancocho (a pan-Latin American soup with no fixed recipe) as a tool for research and encounter, Mercado Lourdes (Bogotá, Colombia) will host and organize a series of field meals. These events activate and connect the multiple affects that have resulted from ongoing research with local producers into the biodiversity of the territory.  

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16 december 2022, 15.00-17.00



In all continents, people have built matriarchal cosmologies sustained by complex rituals. In the advent of main modern religions and after centuries of colonizing invasions, the goddesses of antiquity were suppressed by the patriarchal structures that consolidated our era. However, they found ways to speak to us in the language of patterns, melodies, and poems. This workshop uses the voice as a method to reveal the presence of goddesses. 



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27 januari, 18.30–29 januari, 21.00 2023

During these sessions—part of the bASIC aCTIVIST kITCHEN (b.a.k.) program in collaboration with Berend Bombarius, De Voorkamer and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst—we want to collectively explore the topic of setting up community kitchens. Different strategies, tools, methodologies, and contexts are explored to learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the practices and theories of community kitchens.

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