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ON EST ENSEMBLE ET ÇA VA WAKA – A Few Reflections on Navigating the Xenopolis
Public Lecture

Lecture: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Art Director of the art space SAVVY Contemporary Berlin and Curator at Large of documenta 14),
Moderation: Nora Sternfeld (Professor for Curating and Mediating Art, Aalto University Helsinki and Co-Director /ecm, Wien)

Thinking of exhibition making as an act of assembly of notions, peoples and histories? Ça va waka in Cameroonian pidgin and Franglais means ?all will be good? and from that same context, a popular phrase upon farewell is “on est ensemble” or “we are together” – an almost frantic invocation and incantation of an eminent (re-) assembly. This lecture addresses the question of space and assembly in a world of movement. Thirdspace – the space in flux – is a continually and rapidly changing ?lived/social space? of experientiality, that goes beyond its mere physicality and conceptualisation as a space. And what does this mean for curatorial spaces and assemblies?

* Xenopolis was the title of an exhibition by Simon Njami at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle

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