| As a continuation of the exhibition, Suñu Jant - A constellation of public artworks in Dakar, organised by Raw Material Company in collaboration with Little Sun, as part of #Partcours11. We invite you to participate in the public programme that will take place at RAW, this Saturday 21 January 2023, from 4pm. |
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Samedi 21/01/23
De 16h à 18h
Perspectives et enjeux de la création dans l’espace public ou “L’art comme ancrage communautaire pour une transition climatique plus j
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Saturday 21/01/23
From 4pm to 6pm.
Perspectives and challenges of art in the public space or "Art as a community anchor for a sustainable climate transition?"
RAW Material Company and Little Sun have invited three artist collectives to think #SuñuJant, KENU LAB'Oratoire des Imaginaires, Yataal Art and Kër Thiossane. Three spaces that experience and rethink the notion of art in public space on a daily basis, within the communities where they are anchored. By exploring the possibilities of solar energy as a basis for a climate-just future, we seek to understand the challenges faced by the actors of the project in the different districts of the city where the installations were made. What forms of solidarity have been woven in Ouakam, between the inhabitants, the municipality and the traders of the Marché Jeudi? How does the sharing of knowledge operate within the FabLab of Kër Thiossane, between the artists - Claire Eliot, Doulsy-Jah Gal & Klaus Löhmann - and the advanced students of the CPRS ( Professional Centre for Social Reinsertion) of the Sicap? And finally, how, through the multiplicity of their civic actions, the artists of the Medina district are advocating for the preservation of the Soumbédioune primary schools.
Featuring the participation of: Little Sun Sénégal — Amy Sadio ; Kenu Lab’Oratoire des imaginaires — Ibaaku, Jah Gal Doulsy & Alibeta ; Kër Thiossane — Marion Louisgrand ; Yataal Art — Mamadou Boye Diallo aka Modboye. |
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Saturday 21/01/23
From 6:30pm to 9pm :
RAWCiné-club - Screenings of short films followed by a Talk between Mamadou Khouma Gueye & El Hadji Demba Dia
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Time to say no! by El Hadji Demba Dia, Senegal, 13'.
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Xaar Yallà by Mamadou Khouma Gueye, Senegal, 25'13
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Restitution of the "Pencco#" organized with the women of Bargny and Ndayane, Senegal, 9'.
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Time to say no! - Senegal, 13 minutes
By El Hadji Demba Dia,
Trailer available here
Bargny town is the new industrial suburb of Senegal. This town of 70,000 inhabitants is polluted by the coal-fired power plant and by the Sococim cement factory, suffocated by the installation of the mineral port and by the advancing sea. The populations feel the urgency to fight to preserve their environment, which has become unliveable. The activist Fadel Wade and the Takkom Dieri association are propelling the fight to an international level. 7 km away from this ecological disaster, a new city is being built in Diamniadio. Once the lungs of the Dakar region, small businesses were profitable there, but today, villages like Deni Malick Gueye are real victims of speculation and land grabbing, and many will soon see their land transformed into hotels and entertainment areas. In spite of this deluge, the populations are organizing themselves to resist against the colonizers of modern times.
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Xaar Yallà - Senegal, 25'13
By Mamadou Khouma Gueye,
Trailer available here
She is moving towards us.
She is moving against us.
She is moving with us...
She drives me away.
I can't go on with her anymore.
I won't see her beautiful horizon anymore.
I don't want to miss her fresh morning air.
She gave me everything.
She is the sea.
She advances on the city of Saint Louis, the "Venice of the South", of which certain districts, Guet Ndar and Ndar all, enclosed between the sea and the river, are in danger of disappearing, as well as Ndoud Baba Diéye, an island in the vicinity...
Restitution of the Pencco with the women of Bargny and Ndayane - (Senegal, 9')
The pencoo is a way to consider the common, the mbokk principle of community and inclusion. To come back to this term of common (from the Latin word com-munus) which means to give together. To be in sharing, to be in
sharing. To be together. Beyond prejudice. In the link and the relation woven with the others without forgetting the differentiation and the divergence...
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#INTERvenants
Little Sun Sénégal — Amy Sadio ; Kenu Lab’Oratoire des imaginaires — Ibaaku, Jah Gal Doulsy & Alibeta ; Kër Thiossane — Marion Louisgrand ; Yataal Art — Mamadou Boye Diallo aka Modboye; Tééméri Bop Koñ — Mamadou Khouma Gueye & El Hadji Demba Dia.
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Established in 2012 by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen,Little Sun is an organization working to deliver affordable clean energy in Africa and inspire people to take climate action globally. Little Sun distributes energy tools, designs and implements renewable energy programs, and leads citizen engagement campaigns globally; partnering with solar experts, creatives, companies, governments, communities, and non-profit organizations to achieve universal access to clean energy.
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KENU LAB'ORATOIRE DES IMAGINAIRES - JANTU GUDDI (SUN OF THE NIGHT)
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Kenu – Lab’Oratoire des Imaginaires is an art center that experiments with new ways of working together to produce new forms of collective action, serve the community, and reveal the current potential of imaginaries. Rooted in the arts, culture, and orality, Kenu's mission is to explore the imaginaries, social practices, and traditional knowledge of the community of Ouakam. Inspired by “research-action” methods, the Lab’Oratoire uses tools belonging as much to the social sciences and popular education as to the artistic world.
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KËR THIOSSANE: ILLUMINER L'EN COMMUN ( ILLUMINATING THE COMMON)
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A cultural space for the artistic and civic imagination, Kër Thiossane has focused its activities since 2002 on art, new technology, and what they imply in society.
In 2014, Kër Thiossane initiated the School of Commons, an open transdisciplinary research and experimentation space combining art, technology, urban ecology, economy, and neighborhood practice. Located in a former public park in a run-down area, the school revolves around the first fabrication lab in Dakar, Defko Ak Nëp (Do it with Others), a space for sharing digital manufacturing machines with the goal of making culture accessible and prioritizing the public good. The school also includes an artistic garden that received the Human City Design Award in 2020.
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YATAAL ART: LEER NAÑ (SPOTLIGHT)
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Yataal Art, which means “Expanding Art" in Wolof, is an association for cultural, social, and artistic action that was founded in 2010 by Mamadou Boye Diallo. It supports projects that promote and preserve the historic district of the Medina in Dakar.
Yataal Art’s most acclaimed projects include The Open Air Museum, an ongoing initiative that welcomes artists from all over the world to paint frescoes on the deteriorated walls of homes, and "Dakar Brut," a walking tour featuring artworks displayed in traditional houses. Yataal Art strives to strengthen accessibility to art for all, both through the diversity of content it offers and through its openness to the world and to exchanges it initiates.
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“After studying History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (Senegal), I started working in the film industry by militating for access to cinema for the population of the Dakar suburbs before moving on to directing. Playing with my own resources and drawing on the collective energy of my generation to produce and distribute our cinema. Always defending the idea that art must make room for ordinary people, and participate in the representation and awareness of social and political realities, sometimes difficult”.
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"I grew up in Dakar at the LGI gendarmerie camp in Mbao. After my father retired from the gendarmerie, I moved to Guinaw Rail, a popular neighborhood in the suburbs of Dakar. This allowed me to meet several actors of the urban culture of Senegal. In 2005, my neighborhood was hit hard by floods. A difficult period during which several families were dispersed. My childhood friends left for Europe in boats of fortune and some never came back. In 2008, I met the cinema with my student friend Mamadou Khouma Guèye and told in images the ordeal of the inhabitants in our neighborhood. We also created the association CINEBANLIEUE with the support of the late Mr. Abdel Aziz Boye.”
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