BERLIN-BASED artists Banu Çiçek Tülü and Miriam Chebaibai Koch hosted a night of music and artwork at Goethe-Institut Namibia’s Night time Underneath the Stars (Nuts) final Friday.
Each Akademie Schloss Solitude fellows at the moment within the nation for a four-month artists’ residency, Tülü and Koch invited native artists to improvise on Tülü’s exhilarating digital music set whereas any keen viewers members joined Koch in a free-spirited portray session.
The Nationwide Artwork Gallery of Namibia, Goethe Institut Namibia and Akademie Schloss Solitude have been organising the Namibia fellowship as a part of the Namibia Initiative of the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2020. The intention of this bilateral
fellowship is to determine a long-term inventive and cultural alternate between Namibia and Germany.
The primary occasion in a collection of happenings Tülü and Koch will current throughout their keep, Nuts closed as an introduction to the artists who additionally hope to collaborate with native creatives.
“Music is a common language, subsequently Nuts was a really essential alternative to fulfill locals and share my music,” says Tülü who’s a sound artist, producer and DJ.
“I’ve an upcoming DJ gig at MYNT Night time membership tomorrow. I’m additionally organising a workshop about sound artwork.”
Koch, a visible artist, counsellor and activist at the moment working from a studio on the Katutura Group Arts Centre is eager to interact in equally symbiotic initiatives and exchanges.
“I stay up for internet hosting some extra reside portray classes and assembly different visible artists. I’ll do a pop-up artwork present/workshop occasion for the Afrosol Pageant, an empowerment occasion for younger individuals partaking with the inventive trade, hosted by my buddy and colleague Thabiso Dube. There may be additionally an occasion deliberate with the Nationwide Artwork Gallery.”
As they work on their particular person initiatives and actively search native collaborators, Tülü and Koch, who’ve been within the nation since December, already really feel at residence.
Koch, who has African heritage feels a comparable sense of residence.
“As a German-Kenyan, Namibia feels acquainted in lots of (generally distorted) methods. I’m grateful to really feel such a robust pan-African connection and to study in regards to the historical past, constructions and struggles of this melting pot of a rustic, in addition to assembly up with unimaginable artists and activists,” says Koch.
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