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The workshop "The Thieves of Echo: The Echo-logies of our Gardens" focuses on a paraecologist practice through sonic abolitionist herbalisms through botanic meditations, and its effects on our bodies. In the park around ZK/U, participants make recordings of sonic plant life and learn on the histories of plants inside the Black music industries, while connecting the works of Black anti-colonial movements to sonorities of resistance in plant and mineral life.
This session is curated and guided through embodied learning by Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro and Nane Kahle. Participants are offered to build forensic sonic compositions from the garden through digital circuits and soft radio frequency creating a choir of historical botanic testimonies integrated as forensic evidence inside a speculative courtroom to protect botanical and human life as a form of transformational justice.
Noone will be turned away for lack of funds. Email us for a free ticket here plantstories.zku@gmail.com.
Biography:
Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro is a visual artist, writer, somatic body therapist, community cultural worker and curator supporting BiPOC and queer groups using integrative approaches that combines humanistic and abolitionist-inspired methods, de-traumatization tools alongside cognitive behavioral therapy (notably for C-PTSD) and ancestral healing work. Their abolitionist approach is shaped through decolonial embodied practices and awareness of racism, discrimination and gender identity. Their practice honors queer histories and indigenous struggles centering Bakongo Cosmology, Obeah and Orixa practices that empowers communities and shares resources to create tools of safety towards self-awareness & transformation in mental health. Their works on herbalism and ancestral healing often exposes the interwoven colonial histories of migration and ecologies in site-specific spaces to dismantle prejudices and create independent emancipatory tools for liberation, education, and reparation.
Nane Kahle is an artist, musician, and interdisciplinary researcher who has woven her diverse cultural heritage and nomadic journeys into her creative endeavors. Originating from the Ivory Coast and spending her formative years in Senegal and the Caribbean, before passing by in France and finally settling in Berlin. Her compositions resonate with ancestral rhythms and ritualistic chants. She combines her exploration of biochemist science, artificial intelligence and data technologies with ritual practices, to illuminate the dynamic relationship between humanity, nature, and the cosmos.