KIKK Opening - AfriKIKK Party

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La Flamboyante curated by Rokia Bamba x AKAR & Fat B.

For the opening night, we’re putting the AfriKIKK project in the spotlight by inviting Brussels DJ Rokia Bamba to put on a 100% African party!

AfriKIKK is a project to promote new media arts and explore digital cultures supported by Wallonie Bruxelles International, Wallonia and Africalia programme. This programme is the fruit of a partnership between the KIKK and a series of partners and curators from the African continent and its diaspora. The main aim of this partnership is to show the importance of Africa in the digital age, particularly as a vector of cultural imagination, social and oral traditions and intangible heritage, by presenting the points of view of a range of artists and experts from the African continent and its diaspora.

Line up

AKAR is a musical and visual artistic creation in a collaboration with the following artists: Shama Bongo (Singer, Projects producer & manager), Sarah Carlier (Singer-songwriter, Musician, Music Producer), Rokia Bamba (DJ, Sound designer), BenRichard (VJ, DJ, Sound designer).
Each artist of AKAR has a particular and very personal link to its origins but also has a link with Africa and with Music. AKAR is made up of french, belgian, white, black people... One man and three women. AKAR is Europe, AKAR is Africa, AKAR is generation X and Y.
The name AKAR includes all this humanity and therefore has several meanings in several languages and even on several continents... It means ROOT in Sudanese, Malay & Indonesian, WILLINGNESS in Hungarian, FLOW in Turkish, and DISTURB, AGITATE & MAKE TABOO in Hebrew.
AKAR is currently in residence at the belgian Africa Museum. In this context, the collective is conducting research in sound, video and photo archives. The idea is to play, transform, assemble, tell stories and use them as fragments in the show.

Event Time:
21:00 - 02:00
Date:
24th - 25th October
Location:
AKAR FatB Rokia Bamba FatB AKAR FatB
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