Danser la Résistance – Dance as a Form of Resistance
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| Free admission |
| English |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Part of: SPÄTI |
On the occasion of the dance-performance BIKUTSI 3000 which will take place at the Humboldt Forum in December, the Cameroonian musician, author and director Blick Bassy will be our guest at SPÄTI.
He will talk to curator Martin Baasch about his current album Mádibá, his relationship to film and stage and his vision of an Afro-feminist liberation from colonial structures.
The evening will be framed by DJ Ben Olayinka, who – like Blick Bassy – has already brought the Humboldt Forum to life with his DJ sets as part of the AIRING OUT festival.
The event will be held in English.
Programme
5 pm: DJ Set
5.30–6.15 pm: Talk
6.15 –8 pm: DJ Set
Blick Bassy
Blick Bassy is one of Cameroon’s most innovative artists and was already a guest at the Humboldt Forum in 2021 as part of the AIRING OUT Festival. He writes and sings in his mother tongue Bassa and often draws his inspiration from childhood memories, which he processes in his music, dance, lyrics, performances and films. After very successful years with the Cameroonian band Macase, he launched his solo career as a musician in 2019. His album and book 1958 is a tribute to the Cameroonian independence fighter Ruben Um Nyobé, who was shot by French colonial troops that year. In 2016, he wrote his first novel, Le Moabi Cinéma, published by Gallimard and awarded the Grand Prix, which celebrates francophone authors from the continent.
In 2023, he was appointed Co-Director of the Memory Commission for the French Colonial Era in Cameroon.
Ben Olayinka
The Berlin based DJ, author and music lover Ben Olayinka describes himself as the “Minister of Enjoyment” and DJ on the run. His mission is to always send new variations of Afrobeat, Disco, House & Soul into the world. He performed at AIRING OUT festival at the Humboldt Forum in 2022 and 2023.