Sep 25 2024
These Seasons | A Walk In Jerusalem by Christian Nyampeta
WED | 7PM
SI is pleased to present the latest installment of These Seasons, an evening of poems, songs, and music videos led by artist Christian Nyampeta. This event, held on SI’s rooftop, is a live activation of Nyampeta’s newly commissioned work for Spora. This gathering presents various sonic and visual media from journeys of engaging with art-learning and art-making in, with, and against the worlds of today. Titled after a song by The Badgett Sisters, the evening will feature moments recorded in sound or image in Amsterdam, Dakar, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Kassel, Kigali, Lubumbashi, New York, Shanghai, and Zurich.
These Seasons is an ongoing transdisciplinary public program that invites artists, scholars and writers to explore theories of nature, landscape, ecology, human and non-human life forms and climate action.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Christian Nyampeta is an artist living in New York from where he organizes programs, exhibitions, screenings, performances, and publications, which are conceived as hosting structures for collective feeling, cooperative thinking, and mutual action. Nyampeta convenes the Nyanza Working Group of ARAC—Another Roadmap School which participated in documenta fifteen, and he is the convener of Boda Boda Lounge 2022-2024, a trans-African film and video art festival co-initiated by Centre d’art Waza in Lubumbashi. In New York, Nyampeta convenes the African Film Institute at e-flux in Brooklyn.
Image: A drawing by a guest made during a listening session of “Archives Sonores De La Littérature Noire,” with cooking, poems, conversations, drawing, and music on August 10, 2022 at Grand Hotel Hessenland, obere königsstrasse 2, in Kassel, Germany, as part of documenta fifteen.