A Pandemic. It would have been helpful for us to have been prepared for it. To be able to anticipate it. To know how to live it and deal with it. To experience it and accept it. Unfortunately, we're facing a situation that appears to us to be unprecedented. We are analysing past crises, but which in the current context seem distant and even abstract. We "collectively" feel like a cluster of patient 0's, whether or not we have contracted the virus. Our lifestyles, our conceptions, our understandings of the world as we have known it embrace mutations which, although painful, are irremediable. We are going to have to relearn how to live in this context, which for many people remains misunderstood to this day.
Christian Nyampeta, accompanies us in this phase of transition that characterizes mornings after. Those days after, which for some are a utopia and for the rest of us are a necessity. Evening School - Six Films, From Rwanda and Beyond, brings together our recent history through the cinematic production of directors who have dealt with these questions to respond to the realities of war, territoriality and memories. These pebbles sown along the path of history are perhaps for us a means of recreating links and rethinking our globality.
Evening School: Six Films, from Rwanda and Beyond, is a program convened by Christian Nyampeta as part of Artist Cinemas, an online film programming cycle designed by artists for e-flux Video & Film. You can learn more about this program here.
Christian is a cross-disciplinary artist who works in the fields of art, design and theory. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions. His recent solo exhibitions include École du soir at Sculpture Center in New York; A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art GfZK in Leipzig, co-commissioned with Contour Biennale 9 in Mechelen, and co-produced with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Perdu Amsterdam, and Wilfried Lentz Gallery in Rotterdam; and Words after the World at Camden Arts Centre in London. He contributed to the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2019; the Dakar Biennial 2018; and the 11th Gwangju Biennial in 2016. Nyampeta runs Radius, an online and occasionally inhabitable radio station, and he completed a PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was awarded The Art Prize Future of Europe 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art GfZK in Leipzig, and the European Union Prize at the 12th Bamako Encounters—African Biennial of Photography. For École du soir : Six Films, from Rwanda and Beyond, he convenes the Nyanza Working Groupof Another Roadmap School.