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27/10/2024, GATHERING
The Tatsuniya Artist Collective is a registered organisation for a group of 20 women in Maidiguri, Nigeria, who have been collaborating with Rahima Gambo since 2017. The collective was founded through the visual storytelling workshops Gambo had with the student collaborators in her photographic series also titled Tatsunya. The collective is a gathering space where members can initiate projects, discuss issues, find support, resources and be sustained in the long-run by the Tatsuniya series. It is also a place where the parameters of long-term collaboration, agency, representation and authorship can be defined and mediated.
Dear Friends, We warmly invite you to a special fundraising event at Det Lilla Rum. Join us on the afternoon of Sunday, October 27th, 2024, from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 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 weaving workshop for both adults and kids by textile designer Marianne Noer. 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 effort from a group of friends and colleagues who have worked closely with Rahima Gambo and Tatsuniya Art Collective. The fundraising initiative is however an independent, voluntary endeavor. We invite you to share this space with us and help up supporting our friends and colleagues. 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, In solidarity, Aziza Harmel, Pujita Guha, Ida Bencke & Dea Antonsen
Event Details:
đ Date: Saturday, October 27th, 2024 â° Time: 12:00 PM â 17:00 PM đ Location: Det Lilla Rum, Copenhagen (Google Maps)
Program
12-15 Dogma Knitting and Weaving Workshop led by textile designer Marianne Noer: A hands-on exploration of wool craft and connection. Both kids and adults can partake. More details tba soon. 12-17 Screening of art movies The Walk (2018) and Instruments of Air (2021) by Rahima Gambo and Sometimes It Was Beautiful (2018) by Christian Nyampeta. Vegetarian 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
Film Notes
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 âfelt a void in linear photographic language to capture these horrific incidents.â 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 artistâs environment in Maiduguri, Lagos, and Abuja, as well as Marrakech in Morocco, in what Gambo terms a âpsychogeographical cartographyâ that fluidly moves between photography, drawing, moving image, and sculpture. Instruments of Air (2021) Wandering through the red earth of Burkina Fasoâs 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. 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.
Bios
Rahima Gambo: With a background in photojournalism, artist Rahima Gambo entered into visual art by way of long-form documentary projects. Through her interdisciplinary practice, which includes photography, film, video installation, drawing, sculpture, and sound, Gambo explores the cartographies of documentary storytelling. Her work especially focuses on how the possibilities of walking and photography intersect with psycho-spiritual-geographies, sociopolitics, autobiography, the environment and public spaces. Christian Nyampta: Christian Nyampetaâs 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 âpoiesis of worlding.â 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. 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.
