When You Meet Us – A Collective Speed Dating


Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart
Thursday, October 3 2024, 6 – 9 p.m.
Costs: CHF 10/5

With Keabetswe Boccomino, Elisa Valentina da Costa Policarpo, Kadiatou Diallo, Dembo Jobarteh, Larissa Tiki Mbassi, Sindi-Leigh McBride and Lorena Rizzo.

Program:
6 p.m. Welcome and introduction
6.30 p.m. Speed dating
8 p.m. Musical performance by Dembo Jobarteh

When You Meet Us - A Collective Speed Dating is an invitation to continue with persistent questions raised by the exhibition and accompanying program at the Kunstmuseum Basel, in an open space and with different voices. The hosts of the evening were involved in the preparation and the programs around When We See Us. They all work at the intersection of art, activism and institutional knowledge production.

Instead of a lecture, the evening offers the opportunity to have conversations with experts in the form of a collective speed dating.

The audience will then enjoy a concert with Gambic kora-player Dembo Jobarteh.

Hosts:

Keabetswe Boccomino

Keabetswe Boccomino is a South African curator and founding director of Basel, Switzerland-based contemporary African art platform, Afrinova. Her work is positioned at the intersection of arts, culture and community to introduce collaborative modes of creative engagement, dialogue and artistic showcase.

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Elisa Valentina da Costa Policarpo

Elisa Valentina da Costa Policarpo (she/her) is a communication and media scientist based in Basel. Her work centers on DEI, sustainability, decolonization, and Pan-Africanism, particularly in media, communications, arts, film, tech, and education. While pursuing her Master’s in African Studies at the University of Basel, she applies co-creation, transdisciplinarity, and multimedia methods to foster pluralism in knowledge production. Elisa is building her agency network Afrokaana, which engages in collaborations such as the Heritage Concept and the Forum de Tecnologia e Educação in Luanda, Angola. She also hosts the podcast Blackfluencers.

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Kadiatou Diallo

Kadiatou Diallo works as a freelance curator, mediator and cultural practitioner in Basel. She is a research assistant at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and a lecturer in the Master in Arts in Public Spheres (MAPS) at the EDHEA (école de design et haute école d’art) in Sierre.

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Dembo Jobarteh

Dembo Jobarteh is a master of the Kora, hailing from a traditional Griot family deeply rooted in the Mandinka musical culture. “For generations, the art of playing the Kora has been passed down in my family, and I continue this tradition while incorporating modern influences. My goal is to blend the ancient music of my ancestors with contemporary elements, all while preserving the essence of our culture. Through my performances on international stages, I aim to share the beauty of West African music with the world.”

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Larissa Tiki Mbassi

Larissa Tiki Mbassi (she/her) is a curator and a PhD candidate based in Zurich. Her research focuses on the intersections between colonial history and “Blackness” in Switzerland. She is particularly interested in how “public art” reflects and challenges collective memory, especially concerning colonialism. Through her work, Larissa highlights the importance of valuing Afro-diasporic narratives in Switzerland, a country where belonging is still associated with whiteness.

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Sindi-Leigh McBride

Sindi-Leigh McBride is a writer from Johannesburg, South Africa and PhD Candidate at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her doctoral research explores the politics and poetics of climate change in South Africa and Nigeria, focusing on how contemporary art and literature in South Africa and Nigeria can be read as forms of climate knowledge.

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Lorena Rizzo

Lorena Rizzo is a historian of Namibia and South Africa, with a special interest in gender and visual history. She has published widely on gender and colonialism, photography and public history in Southern Africa, and co-curated exhibitions on Namibian visual history and memory. She is currently working on a collaborative project entitled The (In)Audible Past. Southern African sound archives and histories (SNF/NRF). and another project entitled Inherited Futures. Objects, time, knowledge (SNF).

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24 September – 23 October 2024

September

Sat 28 Sep

WORKSHOP

STUDIO GEGENWART
15:00–16:30

The Role of Art in Shaping Historical Narratives. Mit Marilyn Umurungi

CANCELLED

In German. In dieser Veranstaltung wird eine intersektionale, afrofeministische Sichtweise auf BIPoC-Gruppen und -Bewegungen vorgestellt, die für die Sichtbarkeit von Gemeinschaften in der Diaspora entscheidend geworden sind. Kosten: CHF 5.

Sun 29 Sep

WORKSHOP

STUDIO GEGENWART
11:00–17:00

Offenes Studio Gegenwart: Jetzt komm ich!

Who gets to speak in public and who doesn't? Who writes history and about whom is history written? Open to all: families, friends, children, young people and adults are welcome. Participation free of charge, no registration recquired.

October

Thu 3 Oct

STUDIO GEGENWART
18:00–21:00

When You Meet Us – A Collective Speed Dating

«When You Meet Us – A Collective Speed Dating» is an invitation to continue, with persistent questions raised by the exhibition and accompanying program at the Kunstmuseum Basel, in an open space and with different voices. Costs: CHF 10/5.

Treffpunkt: Gegenwart EG, Information

 

CONVERSATION

STUDIO GEGENWART
18:00–21:00

Where do we go from here. Critical outlook with guests as part of "When We See Us"

The Critical Friends of the Basel station of «When we see us» - historian Lorena Rizzo, curator Kadiatou Diallo and researcher Sindi-Leigh McBride - invite you to an evening with guests. Costs: CHF 10 / 5.

Sat 5 Oct

FULLY BOOKED!

STUDIO GEGENWART
12:30–14:30

Serving Questions

FULLY BOOKED

Discursive menu and installation by the Hybrid Project Space collective and chef Olivier Bur. Participation free of charge, Ticket via ticket link. Limited number of participants.

 

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

Sun 6 Oct

WORKSHOP

STUDIO GEGENWART
15:00–16:30

Dialogue Session: The Functional Art Within Community. With Kwaku Dapaah Opoku

Artist and designer Kwaku Opoku leads a conversation centered around the intersection of art and community. Costs: 5 CHF.

Sat 12 Oct

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

24 September – 23 October 2024