EXISTING OTHERWISE
THE FUTURE OF COEXISTENCE
14 January – 30 April 2022
Exhibition and re-schooling programme
THE SAVANNAH CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (SCCA), Tamale, RED CLAY, and NKRUMAH VOLI-NI, Tamale, Ghana
The one-year-long art project started in Berlin in 2021 and culminates in an international final exhibition at Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in Tamale, Ghana, opening in January 2022. Based on the idea that we do not want to return to any "normality" before the crisis, the artists Isabel Lewis (The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices, Callie’s, Berlin) and Ibrahim Mahama (Savanah Centre for Contemporary Art/ SCCA, Tamale) have been invited to co-curate and co-host the project. Whereas Lewis' performances, hostings, and choreographies transform our relation and idea of being together in order to help us to gain more intimacy among each other, Mahama rethinks our relation with material and history. The curatorial team have been working among all invited artists to form a vision of how we can exist otherwise, materially and relationally.
with
Ana Alenso (VZ), Ato Jackson (GH), Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GH), Cecilia Vicuña (CL), Eli Cortiñas (ES), Emily Hunt (AU), Ernest Sackitey (GH), Hannah Toticki(DK), Jem Bendell (GB), Rosemary Esinam Damalie (GH), Rüzgâr Buşki (TR), Sarah Ama Duah (DE), Sandra Kyeraa (GH), Selom Kudjie (GH), Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (TH), Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson (GH)
Artistic Director of Existing Otherwise & Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Solvej Helweg Ovesen
Co-curator, founder SCCA, Tamale, Ghana
Ibrahim Mahama
Curatorial advisor, founder The Institute of Embodied Creative Practises, Berlin, Germany
Isabel Lewis
Existing Otherwise – For a New Politics of the Senses
is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, kindly supported by the DAAD Artists-in- Berlin Program with Funds of the Federal foreign Office and executed and directed by XO Curatorial Projects (Kathrin Pohlmann & Solvej Helweg Ovesen) in close collaboration with Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art, Berlin, The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices, Berlin and Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale.
-
Red Clay Studio Site. Photo Ibrahim Mahama
14 January – 30 April 2022
at RED CLAY, Tamale, Ghana
14 January 2022
5 PM Opening of the Exhibition with
Cecilia Vicuña (CL), Eli Cortiñas (ES), Sandra Kyeraa (GH), Sarah Ama Duah (DE), Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (TH), Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson (GH)
7 PM Performance by Sarah Ama Duah (DE)
8 PM Public Film Programme with Cecilia Vicuña (CL), Madeline Anderson (US), Martine Syms (US), Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (TH)
Red Clay is a complex of studios. These are multi-purpose spaces for exhibitions, meetings, art talks, film screenings, workshops, and more. There are also dedicated spaces for a library, a cinema hall and a decommissioned aircraft serving as a site for teaching and learning purposes. The building also includes an outdoor atrium with a “pool of ideas” in the middle, which is called The Parliament of Ghosts. Here historical and contemporary humanist ideas are negotiated and challenged in talks and performances.
-
Nkrumah Voli-ni. Photo courtsey Nkrumah Voli-ni
20 January – 30 April 2022
at NKRUMAH VOLI-NI, Tamale, Ghana
20 January 2022
3 - 5 PM A tour and course on Resource Curse with Ana Alenso (VZ)
5 PM Opening of the Exhibition with
Ana Alenso (VZ)
Nkrumah Voli-ni as a silo building is one of the many independence projects initiated by the first President of Ghana, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, before his overthrow in 1966. The building was originally intended to be a granary and storage for karité nuts, but abandoned after the overthrow of Nkrumah. The now renovated facility is converted into an exhibition venue for science and culture.
-
SCCA Tamale. Photo courtesy SCCA Tamale
21 January – 30 April 2022
at SCCA TAMALE, Ghana
21 January 2022
5 PM Opening of the Exhibition with
Ato Jackson (GH), Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GH), Eli Cortiñas (ES), Emily Hunt (AU), Ernest Sackitey (GH), Hannah Toticki (DK), Jem Bendell (GB), Rosemary Esinam Damalie (GH), Rüzgâr Buşki (TR), Sandra Kyeraa (GH), Selom Kudjie (GH)
5 PM Procession “Spectrum of All-eyes” from Tamale centre to SCCA with Ernest Sakitey
SCCA Tamale is a monumental contemporary art center focusing on exhibition creation, research, publication and documentation of practices relevant to socio economic and ecological developments of the 21st and 20th centuries. It is also a cultural repository and residency space for artists that aims to build a community with other artists and curators to share and learn from each other.
The Future of Coexistence
Red Clay
-
14 January at 5 PM
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
The Future of Coexistence
Exhibition Opening
with
more
Cecilia Vicuña (CL)
Eli Cortiñas (ES)
Sandra Kyeraa (GH)
Sarah Ama Duah (DE)
Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (TH)
Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson (GH)
Parliaments of Ghosts. Photo Courtesy Red Clay
Nkrumah Voli-ni
-
20 January at 5 PM
Nkrumah Voli-ni, Tamale, Ghana
Mad Rush
Exhibition Opening with Ana Alenso
In Nkrumah Voli-ni, Venezuelan artist and eco-activist Ana Alenso digs into the subject of amateur gold mining and its relation to resource curses on a global scale.
5 - 7 PM
more
A tour and course on Resource Curse
Alenso who in her installations functions industrial materials and machines connected to the mining industry, teaches on the subject of resource drain and proposes activist strategies to oppose this tendency. In the course, she will discuss how to create images of the Anthropocene.
Ana Alenso 2021
SCCA Tamale
-
21 January 2022 at 5 PM
SCCA Tamale, Ghana
The Future of Coexistence
Exhibition Opening
with
Ato Jackson (GH), Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GH), Eli Cortiñas (ES), Emily Hunt (AU), Ernest Sackitey (GH), Hannah Toticki (DK), Jem Bendell (GB), Rosemary Esinam Damalie (GH), Rüzgâr Buşki (TR), Sandra Kyeraa (GH), Selom Kudjie (GH)
5 PM Procession “Spectrum of All-eyes” from Tamale centre to SCCA with Ernest Sakitey
more
Savannah Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale, Ghana. Photo © Ibrahim Mahama. Courtesy White Cube
Re-Schoolings & Performances
-
5 and 11 March 2022
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
Silk Screen workshop
Rüzgâr Buşki, artist and experienced silk screen print teacher (UDK Berlin) will conduct a workshop on printing and painting banners (for people of all ages). The group will create one coed banner work with the artist that will be presented in the exhibition.
Rüzgâr Buşki. 2019
-
Online
Allowing Collapse?
Online Discussion with Jem Bendell professor of Sustainable Leadership at University of Cumbria, GB, (“Deep Adaptation”) in the context of "Existing Otherwise - The Future of Coexistence" and Isabel Lewis, Ibrahim Mahama, Solvej Helweg Ovesen on learning from Ghana (Ecological understanding, impromptu decision making, Covid19 handling).
more
Jem Bendell
-
31 January 2022 at 9 AM
blaxTARLINES, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Art Talk on Sustainable Curating with olvej Helweg Ovesen
Curating Otherwise
more
A lecture on the exhibition Existing Otherwise - The Future of Coexistence" at SCCA, Red Clay Studios and Nkrumah Voli-ni, Tamale, and other curatorial adventures.
Curator of festivals, art spaces, and biennials as well as the founder of the CURARE curating course, Berlin, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, gives an overview of her sustainable curatorial practice and a tour through the exhibition "Existing Otherwise" and talks about the steps of curating an unorthodox show, "Deep Curating" (or sustainable curating), and producing artworks, taking you from start to end of the exhibition. The session will include an open discussion and feedback round addressing the curatorial positions of the participants.
©blaxTARLINES
-
21 and 23 January 2022 5 – 7 PM
SCCA Tamale, Ghana
Curating Otherwise
Tour through the exhibition "Existing Otherwise - The Future of Coexistence" and notes on curating otherwise.
Curator of festivals, art spaces, and biennials as well as founder of the CURARE curating course, Berlin, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, gives a tour through the exhibition and talks about the steps of curating an unorthodox show and producing artworks (in the exhibition) in two sessions of 2 hours each, taking you from start to end of the exhibition. Each session will include an open discussion and feedback round addressing curatorial positions of the participants.
more
Solvej Helweg Ovesen
-
17 January from 4 – 6 PM (open event) and 22 January 10 - 2 PM (closed event)
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
Movement Research
Hosted by the curators Maja Smoszna and Malte Pieper
(sign up and please send portfolio and/or CV by 10 January 2022 to sccatamale@gmail.com )
Movement Research – Affective Mapping of Public Spaces proposes an exchange with local artists (visual artists, performers and dancers) in Tamale, Ghana, who are interested in movement and performance sharing. How do I translate my experience of space into movement or artistic practice? How does the designed space influence my movement and community? As a result of the workshop, we would like to develop an experimental performance sharing with participating artists that could (eventually) take place in public spaces in Tamale in the future. The group will explore how bodies move in public space, how the experience of urban design and architecture shapes communities, and how human and non-human activities shape and activate spaces in return. In an exchange with local artists in Tamale, the idea and practice of a public space will be addressed from different perspectives.
more
Essential Body Danielle Shoufra & co-performer practitioners from the M.A. Spatial Strategies, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Rathausvorplatz; Berlin 2021. Photo by Juan Saez
-
18 January 2 – 4PM
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
Textile sculptures workshop
with Sarah Ama Duah
Cotton T-shirts will be the material foundation of the workshop. With an experimental and playful approach we will use T-shirts as material for building a collective sculpture. What are the shirts made of ? How can we deconstruct them ? From 2D to 3D – inventing new shapes and forms. Along the process we will have a look at examples of artistic fashion approaches and the basics of pattern making. In the second part of the Workshop the participants are invited to experience their artworks by wearing them collectively building volatile sculptures.
more
© Sarah Ama Duah
-
14 January 2022 at 8 PM
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
I am Somebody
Public Film Programme
Spanish filmmaker, professor, and artist Eli Cortiñas introduces her curated film programme I am Somebody on women finding their own voice in public:
Martine Syms (US) – Notes On Gesture, 2015, 10’30”
more
Cecilia Vicuña (CL) – What Is Poetry To You?, 1980, 23’ )
Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (TH) – And That Ocean Too, Is A Fiction, 2019, 11’40’
Madeline Anderson (US) – I Am Somebody, 1970, 30’
I Am Somebody, 1970, Madeline Anderson (film still)
-
14 January 2022 at 7 PM
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
to build to bury to remember
Performance by Sarah Ama Duah
In "to build to bury to remember" Duah deals with the deconstruction of monuments and develops hybrid forms between sculpture and body. What alternative forms of sculptural appreciation exist? To whom or what do we want to dedicate them to? How to deal with the empty space that remains when a colonial monument is torn down?
more
© Klaus Gigga
-
14 January 2022 from 2 – 4 PM and 17 January from 1 - 3 PM
Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana
Clay sculpting workshop
Artist and sculptor Emily Hunt teaches how to make delicate clay figurines and even power rings in her collaborative workshop which runs in 2 x 2 sessions around the opening in Red Clay.
© Emily Hunt 2021
Re-Schooling programme
From Germany to Ghana
© XO Curatorial Projects
Re-Schooling Lecture by Solvej Helweg Ovesen within the framework of Existing Otherwise – For a New Politics of the Senses
Camera & Editing: Dafne Narvaez Berlfein