After the Dinner Time Talk (DTT) with Mukenge/Schellhammer, we continue our collaboration in Berlin with two events, a screening program and a record release/concert, which are part of Laboratoire Kontempo Kinzonzi and Laboratoire Kontempo Miziki (03.04.–25.06.2022).

Developed in collaboration with Acud Macht Neu (Berlin), the Kinzonzi of Laboratoire Kontempo brings together artists and researchers from Kinshasa, Berlin and other places in an analog and digital transdisciplinary experimental space in order to question the structures of power and dominant trends in contemporary international art scenes.

In the framework of the project Miziki, musicians from Kinshasa and Berlin come together to seek musical connections through conversations and performances. The focus of the Miziki program is to create a space of gathering, substituting eurocentric categorizations of classical, popular and “world” music with an open encounter and exchange in musical knowledge, collaboration, artistic research and modes of listening together.

For the whole program see here: https://acudmachtneu.de/programm/2022/5/ and
https://labkontempo.com/

1. Labkontempo Kinzonzi: Choreographies of the Everyday
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Time: 8 pm
Venue: ACUD CLUB, Veteranenstr. 21, Berlin
Admission free

Talk and screening with documentary films and music videos from Kinshasa. Curated by fluctuating images (Cornelia Lund and Holger Lund) in collaboration with Peter Miyalu (Académie des Beaux Arts, Kinshasa).

Films:
La danse du matin, Director: Peter Miyalu, 2019, 2 min
Bidon Vil, Director: Nizar Saleh, 2018, 4 min
Ofele, Director: Nizar Saleh, Music: Pierre Kwenders & Uproot Andy, 2021, 3 min
Te rembi, Director: Nizar Saleh, Music: Céline Banza, 2019, 3:40 min
GangstaF*cknB*tch (Bana Mabe), Director: ANDER Concept, Music: Lunatic Beudo, 2015, 4 min
Zero, Director: Moimi Wezam, 2018, 66 min.

For more information (also in French and German) see:
http://www.fluctuating-images.de/labkontempo-kinzonzi-choreographies-of-the-everyday/

2. Labkontempo Miziki: Les Miraculeux. Concert by Lova Lova and
EP Release of Mokili Na Poche
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Time: 8 pm
Venue: ACUD CLUB, Veteranenstr. 21, Berlin
Admission free

Concert by Lova Lova and EP release Mokili Na Poche (The World in Your Pocket) by Lova Lova & Atelier Kamikazi feat. Delta Force & Bernard Morisson, Dix balles, Franc congolais, Banque du sang & Banque mondiale, Ozé (Oyo Projects).

Mokili Na Poche is published by Seismographic Records in cooperation with fluctuating images.

For more information see:
http://www.fluctuating-images.de/laboratoire-kontempo-miziki-les-miraculeux-concert-of-lova-lova-and-ep-release-of-mokili-na-poche/
For sound clips and ordering:
https://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/lova-lova-und-atelier-kamikazi-mokili-na-poche-904132

Thanks goes to AcudMachtNeu (Berlin) and LabKontempo (Kinshasa). The research in Kinshasa to create these two events was supported by DHBW Ravensburg.