EAST:NORTH//The Compass (2018)

EAST:NORTH//The Compass [2018]

Presenting ‘Home||Unknown – a Dialogue’

A work-in-progress performance installation at Werkhalle Wiesenburg,
11 August 2018

Inspired and supported by EAST - East African Soul Train
Partner: Werkhalle Wiesenburg Berlin
Video footage: Lena Giovanazzi
Video production: Benedikt Hölzl
Creative direction: Geraldine Hepp
Artistic direction: Adam Chienjo & Sarah Drain
Creative production: Yule Burlefinger
Photography and creative co-production: Gwen Schlüter

Concept: Geraldine Hepp, Poppy Spowage, Adam Chienjo, Maimouna Jallow, Brian Msafiri, Sarah Mallia, Checkmate Mido, Yule Burlefinger

Participating artists (Berlin): Sarah Drain, Chatschatur Kanajan, Dan Faberoff, KiKon, Kat Roberta, Lena Giovanazzi featuring Wairimu Sisian, Intare, Anne Regler, Vantos Yoan, Ioana Muntenescu, Yule Burlefinger, Gwen Schlüter, and an on-going exhibition of Marianne Wirries.

Participating artists (Kigali, Nairobi, Kampala): Checkmate Mido, Ife Piankhi, Kevin Karanja, Nayianoi Sitonik, Jinku, Ejuku Hitter Mark, Angell Mutoni

EAST:NORTH//The Compass

EAST:NORTH // The Compass is an art project that aims at sharing perspectives and building networks through interdisciplinary collaborations between artists from different disciplines and countries. It is inspired by and builds on some of the questions that are explored in the traveling residency EAST-East African Soul Train, a creative adventure on East Africa’s historic railways. As a prototype, The Compass tested out an in-person/virtual collaboration approach with EAST artists and artists in Berlin at Werkhalle Wiesenburg in 2018. The concept seeks to extend the rigid structures of traditional residencies in exploring ways of how to share artistic experiences with a foreign art community as well as with the art community ‘at home’. The Compass furthermore aims towards connecting artistic communities across the globe to re-imagine perspectives and to create a new dialogue between them.

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