Choreographic Coding Production Lab Nairobi 2017
The #CCLNRB
The CCLNRB is a joint project by Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Motion Bank and NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt.
Eight Kenyan and German artists are commissioned to create a project evolving around the them of „Designing Hope“ with their very different artistic means: choreography, the voice, composition, vr-technology or other digital art practices.
#CCLNRB artists are Melisa Allela, Benjamin van Bebber, Amelie Hinrichsen, Leo Hofmann, Alacoque Ntome, Awuor Onyango, Jared Onyango and Else Tunemyr.
The artists are discussing “hope” as a usually positively perceived yet ambiguous concept: Is a state of hope actually encouraging? What is the difference between hope and optimism? Doesn't hope always come with anxiety? And what is the role of technology in the shaping of social imaginaries?
In their interdisciplinary constellation the #CCLNRB members investigated different cultural fields that provide or make use of hope as a means and medium: from pop-music to religion, from commercial advertisement to the promises of technological innovation for development. During the presentation the group will showcase alternative concepts or settings for rethinking the quality of hope, ideas on utopia and dystopia.
In June 2017, the artists will meet for further two weeks to continue the collaboration in Frankfurt, Germany. The final result will be premiered at the German festival NODE17 Forum for Digital Arts in Frankfurt (Main) at Mousonturm and Naxoshalle Given future fundings, we will bring back the final project to Kenya in November 2017 to NFPMA (Nairobi Festival of Performance and Media Arts).
#CCLNRB has also been supported by Technical University of Kenya.
Photos by David Rittershaus
Choreographic Coding Production Lab Nairobi 2017
The #CCLNRB
The CCLNRB is a joint project by Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Motion Bank and NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt.
Eight Kenyan and German artists are commissioned to create a project evolving around the them of „Designing Hope“ with their very different artistic means: choreography, the voice, composition, vr-technology or other digital art practices.
#CCLNRB artists are Melisa Allela, Benjamin van Bebber, Amelie Hinrichsen, Leo Hofmann, Alacoque Ntome, Awuor Onyango, Jared Onyango and Else Tunemyr.
The artists are discussing “hope” as a usually positively perceived yet ambiguous concept: Is a state of hope actually encouraging? What is the difference between hope and optimism? Doesn't hope always come with anxiety? And what is the role of technology in the shaping of social imaginaries?
In their interdisciplinary constellation the #CCLNRB members investigated different cultural fields that provide or make use of hope as a means and medium: from pop-music to religion, from commercial advertisement to the promises of technological innovation for development. During the presentation the group will showcase alternative concepts or settings for rethinking the quality of hope, ideas on utopia and dystopia.
In June 2017, the artists will meet for further two weeks to continue the collaboration in Frankfurt, Germany. The final result will be premiered at the German festival NODE17 Forum for Digital Arts in Frankfurt (Main) at Mousonturm and Naxoshalle Given future fundings, we will bring back the final project to Kenya in November 2017 to NFPMA (Nairobi Festival of Performance and Media Arts).
#CCLNRB has also been supported by Technical University of Kenya.
Photos by David Rittershaus