In our explorations of the provocations before us, we came to many, many things. As we prepared to record, we gathered our talismans, our selves, and our gifts for each other. To be seen is to be in an exchange; to be loved, even more so. In our explorations together, setting out to make work as friends and as people who love each other, we found these gifts and more.
A link to the photo referenced in the episode: https://imgur.com/a/aKWt0gh
Karwitha Kirimi is an artist and writer based in Nairobi, East Africa. They work with words, images, rituals, and research. Their poetic practice attends to the word, the line, silence, and space. They use performance as a medium for ritual practice - they perform where their beloveds are to be found. For Karwitha, to be a cultural worker is to work with the very pillars of reality. Their explorations are fueled by questions that emerge within the dark. Their work is in service of worlds where African babies are free, beloved, whole and complex. Karwitha is made possible by her ancestors and communities. She embraces play as a process and impetus. When not loitering under the trees, they can be found drinking the moon.
valiant / waiyaki / wamuoyo is a being of many names, many faces, many talents, many realities: a being constantly in motion and trans*formation. they are, variously, a writer, scholar, poet, actor, healer, and communion-holder. they are currently very interested in ancestral memories and realities; performance studies, of a particular Indigenous lens and experience; and, knowledge production, dissemination, lineage, and freedom. they are committed to (occasionally) showing their workings at thewaiyakiway.substack.com, as they travel across Africa, seeking and sharing healing, communion, and care.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
In this episode, we explore the history of cinemas and film in Uganda with two guests, Jim Joel Nyakaana and Timothy Niwamanya.
Jim Joel is an independent researcher, photographer, and artist whose work focuses on exploring, researching, and photographing cities, their histories, and their communities.
Timothy is a screenwriter, filmmaker, editor, and podcaster. He wrote for the TV series "Beloved," directed a neo-noir thriller short film titled "Askari," and co-hosts The Cinema Red Pill podcast with me!
He also wrote, narrated, and edited a film essay titled "A History of Film in Uganda," which explores the development of film in the country from the colonial period to the present day.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
The Estuaries Of The Future 3 part interview series is a collection of stories from contemporary African and diaspora filmmakers, programmers and video artists whose work or approach is influenced by past legacies of making on the continent.
In this episode, Jesse Mpango has a conversation with Yara Costa Pereira. A journalist and director from Mozambique. After living in Angola and South Africa and working in Brazil as a reporter, she decided she wanted to tell the untold stories of Africa and help to counter the negative stereotypes that so often characterize the continent in Western media. In 2009, she received a scholarship to study news and documentary filmmaking at NYU. She made her first film, Why Are They Here? Chinese Stories in Africa, in 2011. After studying at EICTV (International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños) in Cuba, she made The Crossing, a short film about the tensions between Haiti and the Dominican Republic told through the personal story of a 16-year-old Haitian student who jumps the border daily to go to school. Between God & I is Yara’s first feature documentary.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
The Estuaries Of The Future 3 part interview series is a collection of stories from contemporary African and diaspora filmmakers, programmers and video artists whose work or approach is influenced by past legacies of making on the continent.
In this episode, Jesse Mpango has a conversation with Kantarama Gahigiri. A Swiss and Rwandan writer, director and producer. She explores the notions of identity, migration, sovereignty and on-screen representation through various film formats, both in Switzerland and in East Africa. She participated in Realness Residency in 2018, Le Moulin d'Andé in 2020 and Berlinale Talents in 2021. In 2023, she participated in the Atelier Grand Nord with TANZANITE, her feature-length film in development.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
The Estuaries Of The Future 3 part interview series is a collection of stories from contemporary African and diaspora filmmakers, programmers and video artists whose work or approach is influenced by past legacies of making on the continent.
In this episode, Jesse Mpango has a conversation with Ibee Ndaw
Ibee Ndaw was born in Gambia and graduated from the University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (MA in Film Studies) and from University Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne. From 2019-2022, she held the position of Distribution Assistant and later Festival Manager at Sudu Connexion while also running cinema workshops in elementary schools. In 2022, she joined the programming and organizing office of the Seytou Africa, Documentary Film Festival. In 2023, she served as a reader and translator for South African production companies (Big World Cinema, STEPS) and participated in Durban FilmMart where she evaluated feature projects. Additionally, she undertook the coordination of the second Pan-African edition of the Mobile Film Festival Africa held in Morocco. Since September 2023, she is the new coordinator of the Yennenga Centre. Ibee is also a programmer at Durban International Film Festival and an alumni of the Realness Institute.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
In this episode, three Ugandan artists and filmmakers, Liz Kobusinge, Freddie and SCARLETMOTIFF share their experiences about creating moving image works, including insights from two artists who were featured in the exhibition.
Liz Kobusinge’s work has been featured in the Njabala Foundation's annual exhibition at the Makerere University Art Gallery. She participated in KLA ART 2021 in Kampala and was also an artist-in-residence at 32 Degrees East. Additionally, she exhibited with the Salooni Collective in Burkina Faso. Her collaboration with Darlyne Komukama, titled “In the Midst,” was developed during a residency at LAPA in Brixton, South Africa.
Freddie is a law student and filmmaker who focuses on telling stories about everyday people who often go unseen on screen. They believe in the power of film to challenge the status quo and are passionate about themes of queer joy, and communities that exist outside societal norms. Freddie’s directorial debut is a short film titled "A Normal Boy.
SCARLETMOTIFF is an audio-visual artist operating along the threads connecting creative technology, audio production, graphic design, and the materiality of light. Since July 2020, this iterative approach has birthed over 1400 unique web-native video artworks as part of his daily audio-visual project titled GENERATIVE DREAMS. His work has been exhibited at the Noor Riyadh Light Art Festival in Riyadh, Afri Art Gallery & Afropocene StudioLab in Kampala and the BuzzFest Tech Art Festival in Austin Texas. As part of the ‘In transit under the sky’ exhibition, he made a piece of work titled ‘The Night Terminal’.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
https://www.instagram.com/movingimage.eastafrica/
in transit under another sky invokes the fugitive nature of art and artists working in-between spaces, considering physical geographies as well as other marginal identities and what emerges from the positionality of transience. We take the idea of a ‘moving image’ as a provocation beyond form to affect; moved to feel, or moved to a feeling. Nomadic images that move between spaces, traverse borders, images, shadows and traces that are quite literally in transit. The act of transit being both contentious and generative.
This exhibition features work by 11 artists: Larry Achiampong, Jessica Atieno, Letaru Dralega, Wezile Harmans, Kabi Kimari, Liz Kobusinge & Darlyne Komukama, Peterson Kamwathi, Mogoi, Neema Ngelime, and SCARLETMOTIFF.
brian / june and Nyambura Mutanyi give us a detailed audio of the exhibition, which opened in August 2024 in Kampala, Uganda and September 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Find images and more details about the exhibition on the moving image Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/movingimage.eastafrica/
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
Follow the Moving Image East Africa page on Instagram for updates
https://www.instagram.com/movingimage.eastafrica/
A sneak peek into the 7 upcoming episodes Tendrils featuring:
Nyambura Mutanyi
brian / june
Liz Kobusinge
Freddie
SCARLETMOTIFF
Ibee Ndaw
Kantarama Gahigiri
Yara Costa Pereira
Timothy Niwamanya
Jim Joel Nyakaana
Karwitha Kirimi
valiant/waiyaki/wamuoyo
Tendrils is a podcast created by East African curators - Mirembe, Rosie Olang and Jesse Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council.
The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
The podcast was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.