Where the Niles Meet
Workshop of 20 days in Khartoum
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du 10 au 30 Septembre 2013
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Alfaisal Cultural Centre – , Khartoum – Soudan
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« Where the Niles Meet » is a 20-days workshop in Khartoum comprising of ten participants from Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria who are mainly photographers.
It is no news that Sudan has over the years « enjoyed » a sizeable amount of media attention all for reasons that no country should be proud of. In as much as this project is not an attempt to justify or defend any opinion, it is an effort aimed at bringing a completely different topic to a table fraught with media sensation. However, Sudan is but one of many examples of such victims of misconceptions. Yet despite these shortcomings, we see glimpses of resistance, everywhere in the continent in form of a defiant energy which refuses to be bridled by existing norms. Nowhere in the continent today is more symbolical of this struggle towards self-liberation than in Khartoum which boast of a photography Organisation of about 10,000 members, working together to sustain the potency of imagery and the role reserved for it in the shaping of perceptions within misconstrued realities.
In this regard, Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation teams up with Sudanese Photographers Group in a symbiosis reminiscent of the intersection of the two Nile rivers, to propose a project which on a very simple note aims at investigating circumstances, vantage points and methods of approaching constructive exchange between peoples and tribes of the continent, as considered by African artists of this century.
In 2011, the Invisible Borders Road Trip was on its 3rd edition and the artists traveled from Nigeria to Ethiopia via Tchad and Sudan. « Where The Niles Meet » equally lends to a series of events launched this year that involves a re-visiting of some of the cities traversed in the last four years of which Khartoum was one of them. It is in a bid to bring depth to the interactions and exchanges experienced while on the trip and to share the many observations around the discourse of Trans-African exchange with artists and audience in a much more extensive and time-permitting framework.
The project will feature exhibitions first from the outcome of the workshop but also from the 2011 road trip from Lagos to Addis Ababa. The works to be presented from the 2011 road trip are by 6 artists (five photographers and a writer) who lived the experience of the road trip from its beginning in Lagos to its culmination in Addis Ababa. This road trip brought the artists briefly to Khartoum where they spent about 7 days in the city. The exhibition will attempt to give a glimpse of those experiences via photographs, text and video created during the 2011 outing.
The workshop is facilitated by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer and curator, Akinbode Akinbiyi as well as Emeka Okereke the Artistic Director of Invisible Borders.
Participants of the workshop are: Ray Daniels Okeugo, Jide Odukoya, Lilian Novo Isioro, Meka Teresa, Yassir Bukhari, Hisham Karouri, Azzam Hashim, Arwa Hamouda,
This project was made possible by the support of: Prince Claus Fund, Invisible Borders, Sudanese Photographers Organisation.
It is no news that Sudan has over the years « enjoyed » a sizeable amount of media attention all for reasons that no country should be proud of. In as much as this project is not an attempt to justify or defend any opinion, it is an effort aimed at bringing a completely different topic to a table fraught with media sensation. However, Sudan is but one of many examples of such victims of misconceptions. Yet despite these shortcomings, we see glimpses of resistance, everywhere in the continent in form of a defiant energy which refuses to be bridled by existing norms. Nowhere in the continent today is more symbolical of this struggle towards self-liberation than in Khartoum which boast of a photography Organisation of about 10,000 members, working together to sustain the potency of imagery and the role reserved for it in the shaping of perceptions within misconstrued realities.
In this regard, Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation teams up with Sudanese Photographers Group in a symbiosis reminiscent of the intersection of the two Nile rivers, to propose a project which on a very simple note aims at investigating circumstances, vantage points and methods of approaching constructive exchange between peoples and tribes of the continent, as considered by African artists of this century.
In 2011, the Invisible Borders Road Trip was on its 3rd edition and the artists traveled from Nigeria to Ethiopia via Tchad and Sudan. « Where The Niles Meet » equally lends to a series of events launched this year that involves a re-visiting of some of the cities traversed in the last four years of which Khartoum was one of them. It is in a bid to bring depth to the interactions and exchanges experienced while on the trip and to share the many observations around the discourse of Trans-African exchange with artists and audience in a much more extensive and time-permitting framework.
The project will feature exhibitions first from the outcome of the workshop but also from the 2011 road trip from Lagos to Addis Ababa. The works to be presented from the 2011 road trip are by 6 artists (five photographers and a writer) who lived the experience of the road trip from its beginning in Lagos to its culmination in Addis Ababa. This road trip brought the artists briefly to Khartoum where they spent about 7 days in the city. The exhibition will attempt to give a glimpse of those experiences via photographs, text and video created during the 2011 outing.
The workshop is facilitated by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer and curator, Akinbode Akinbiyi as well as Emeka Okereke the Artistic Director of Invisible Borders.
Participants of the workshop are: Ray Daniels Okeugo, Jide Odukoya, Lilian Novo Isioro, Meka Teresa, Yassir Bukhari, Hisham Karouri, Azzam Hashim, Arwa Hamouda,
This project was made possible by the support of: Prince Claus Fund, Invisible Borders, Sudanese Photographers Organisation.
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