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Dear Friends, We warmly invite you to a special fundraising event at Det Lilla Rum (Cph).
Join us on the afternoon of Sunday, October 27, as we come together to support the Tatsuniya Art Collective, an artist collective based in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Maiduguri was recently devastated by severe floods caused by a dam breach, displacing nearly 200,000 people and affecting over a million residents. The members of the Tatsuniya Art Collective have been directly impacted, with many losing their homes or suffering significant damage. This event aims to raise funds to help rebuild and support these artists in their time of need.
We will have a beautiful program featuring art movies by the artists Christian Nyampeta and Rahima Gambo, and a wool crafts workshop for both adults and kids by textile designer Marianne Noer.
Vegan soup, cake and refreshments will be sold for low prices, and LAE books will be on sale for the fundraising cause.
This event is a collective, voluntary effort from a group of friends and colleagues who have worked closely with Rahima Gambo and Tatsuniya Art Collective.
Every contribution will directly support the rebuilding efforts of the Tatsuniya Art Collective in the aftermath of this devastating flood.
We thank Marianne Noer and Christian Nyampta for their generous contributions to the event and case.
We look forward to coming together with you this Sunday to support the Tatsuniya Art Collective.
In solidarity,
Aziza Harmel, Pujita Guha, Ida Bencke & Dea Antonsen
Event Details:
PROGRAM
12-15
Wool craft workshop led by textile designer Marianne Noer: Dogma knitting and stick weaving. Both kids and adults can partake. More details tba.
12-17
Projection of the art movies The Walk (2018) and Instruments of Air (2021) by Rahima Gambo and Sometimes It Was Beautiful (2018) by Christian Nyampeta.
Vegan soup + cake, coffee and tea will be sold all day.
DONATIONS
For those able to, we ask for a minimum of 150 DKK for participation in the wool workshop (teaching+materials included), and minimum 65 DKK for watching the movies. Of course you are also welcome to just stop by - for a chat, book browsing, soup or cake. And all little donation amounts will be much appreciated<3
ARTIST BIOS & FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Tatsuniya Art Collective:
The Tatsuniya Artists Collective is an organisation consisting of the collaborators of the Tatsuniya series. The collective was founded through the visual storytelling workshops visual artist Rahima Gambo had with student collaborators in the Tatsuniya multimedia series from 2017 to 2019. The collective is made up of 22 participants that feature in the photographs and videos in the project amongst other members. The collective aims to be a gathering space where students in the Tatsuniya series can initiate projects, discuss issues, find support, resources and be sustained in the long-run by the Tatsuniya project. The Tatsuniya Artists collective is a place where members can define the parameters of long term collaboration and begin to work through ideas of agency, authorship, representation, art/ image making, ethics through a model that is still being defined and evolving.
Rahima Gambo:
Rahima Gambo is an artist who explores the conceptual and spatial territories between still and moving image. Her work is process driven with each project map-making and way-finding through the processes of documentary, storytelling and moving image. Her work is circular, collaborative and continuous in nature, with repetition and return as essential to her practice.
The Walk (2019)
When asked to report on the female suicide bombings of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria in the mid-2010s as a photojournalist, Gambo describes how she “felt a void in linear photographic language to capture these horrific incidents.” She thus developed A Walk as a narrative, mobile, and open-ended mechanism that has no beginning, middle, or end. More than a video, A Walk explores the artist’s environment in Maiduguri, Lagos, and Abuja, as well as Marrakech in Morocco, in what Gambo terms a “psychogeographical cartography” that fluidly moves between photography, drawing, moving image, and sculpture.
Instruments of Air (2021)
Wandering through the red earth of Burkina Faso’s Central Plateau, the artist Rahima Gambo holds a bronze circle in her hand, twirling it until it frames the sun. Birds sing. A flute interferes in the general chirping, and joins the rustling of the branches under the footsteps.
Christian Nyampta:
Christian Nyampeta’s works investigate how individuals and communities negotiate forms of socially-organized violence. He creates fictions, models, dialogues, and commentaries concerned with the difficulties of being and living together. Nyampeta makes use of what he refers to as practical philosophy, or “poiesis of worlding.” This approach generates both singular and collective considerations toward our past, present, and future, with the hope to unveil new understandings that may relieve some of the anguish resulting from structural oppression.
Sometimes It Was Beautiful (2018)
The film Sometimes It Was Beautiful by Christian Nyampeta poetically addresses the systemic conditions leading and emerging from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which had lasting and profound effects on Rwanda and neighbouring countries like Congo. The divergent opinions of the characters, as well as suggestive gestures, settings, and marks inscribed in the landscape highlight the different approaches in addressing the slow violence linked to the enduring impact of colonialism and imperialism, the pursuit of knowledge, and the conservation of heritage, culture, and object repatriation.
Marianne Noer:
Marianne Noer is a Danish weaver. The analogue shaft loom is her tool to examine the field between traditions of the past and the possibilities of the future manufacturing of new objects. Noer is driven by shifting the dogmas of the shaft looms' potential to create weavings in an architectural context. Central to her work is a methodical and research-based approach to investigating the interaction between materiality and technique.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Det Lilla Rum, Skotterupgade 16,Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
