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Workshops & Consultations
Performance | Printmaking | Visual Cultural Narratives
"Her workshop made enough impression on the students to make sure she would be invinted for the TEAK Academy´s LAPsody
event for international performance art and studies underlining the need for international cultural connections."
WIllem Wilhelmus, Presentaation Prize Finland 2010
event for international performance art and studies underlining the need for international cultural connections."
WIllem Wilhelmus, Presentaation Prize Finland 2010
Performance Workshops
Nathalie Mba Bikoro organises intensive practice-based and theoretical-based workshops and seminars, for various age groups and levels. The practical workshops include a series of exercises to help the development of each individual accentuating on body-based and time-based practices.
Pedagogical approach
From Critical Pedagogy, based on Paula Freire methods in South Latin America, philosophical instructions are harbored and governed by the pupil's background knowledge and experience, situation, and environment, as well as learning goals set by the student and teacher. The exercises will help the participants to connect with one’s self through authentic / impulsive action and develop awareness and sensorial ability through a constant connectivity of inner and outer consciousness in order to transform inner images to bodily actions. These workshops will be a study of the human body. They examine the human body as an individual and collective entity through its interactions with the other (people, space, objects, surrounding, environment).
These workshops focus on methods of interaction that are developed from body movement & expressions that challenge political subversions. Breaking conventional uses of live experience and visual language through senses and spatial narrations suspended between the foreign and unknown, between tradition and modernity.
Methods often entail practical group and individual exercises, group and solo performance presentations, endurance performances, applied theoretical analysis and adaptation, constructive feedback, performance writing, film screenings, documentation & discussion and individual tutoring.
Inspired methods include authentic movement, Laban’s movement analysis, Fear Nano-Politics, sensory interaction via synaesthesia, Panoptic gaze, gravitational dance movement, relational explorations between body and object, spatial bodily archaeologies, action and voice dynamics (duration, rhythm, tension, release), memory and flow.
Aims
The workshops offer practical and theoretical keys for the development and process of artists or creative explorers. Participants are able to construct a multi body experience through interdisciplinary methods with community development through the exploration of voice, sound, material, visual cultures, duration, space, environment, politics, and object in relation to their bodies. These are constructed to increase the participant’s sense and control of the mind-body connection and to develop awareness and balance between internal and external aspects in a given reality. Henceforth developing intuition, physical skills, shared dialogue, and confidence for one’s personal development or artistic practice.
Working from an amalgamation of methods suited to individual ability, workshops at times may be developed on specific themes as featured in Fear Nano-Politics and Freedom Bodies where participants rediscover their hidden potential for change. Through stimulating ways of expression for alternative cross-cultural integration participants identify and remove limitations in personal expressions.
It requires an open mind: the curiosity and determination to explore a variety of different perspectives and the personal generosity to move beyond conventional assumptions and clarifies the difference and intention in Theatre and Live Art.
Duration
Workshops vary from one-day intensives, weekly or longer residency periods of 4 weeks. Formed for various contexts, held at diverse physical spaces and sites, from academic environments, galleries and public spaces, encouraging the participants to engage in the physical spaces that they encounter and respond to its immediate environment and challenges.
No experience is necessary and workshops can be lead in groups of up to 15 people.
Notice:
Workshops are also designed for therapy as treatment for cancer patients young and old. Using different methods of body and sense awareness, the workshops are designed to work with touch, sensibility, ability and creative language for each individual. Activities vary on levels.
Bikoro has several years experience of working with people of various ages, different abilities and has worked together with people with physical and mental disabilities.
Themes:
Chasing Chimeras | Making Cannibal & Lighting Crystals | Bodykite | Dance, Suspension & Flight | Laugh Out Loud (Interactive developments for Cancer patients) | Cytoplasms ( Body & senses and material intelligence creativities for Cancer patients) | Dancing on the Moon | Post-war trauma therapies | Freedom Bodies | Performance in Writing | Education as the Practice of Freedom | Transformations: Cultural Action for Freedom | Camouflage: Translation, Voice, Memory, Event | Beyond the Borders; Cultural Constructions
Languages:
English and French.
For information and bookings please contact Nathalie Mba Bikoro
Pedagogical approach
From Critical Pedagogy, based on Paula Freire methods in South Latin America, philosophical instructions are harbored and governed by the pupil's background knowledge and experience, situation, and environment, as well as learning goals set by the student and teacher. The exercises will help the participants to connect with one’s self through authentic / impulsive action and develop awareness and sensorial ability through a constant connectivity of inner and outer consciousness in order to transform inner images to bodily actions. These workshops will be a study of the human body. They examine the human body as an individual and collective entity through its interactions with the other (people, space, objects, surrounding, environment).
These workshops focus on methods of interaction that are developed from body movement & expressions that challenge political subversions. Breaking conventional uses of live experience and visual language through senses and spatial narrations suspended between the foreign and unknown, between tradition and modernity.
Methods often entail practical group and individual exercises, group and solo performance presentations, endurance performances, applied theoretical analysis and adaptation, constructive feedback, performance writing, film screenings, documentation & discussion and individual tutoring.
Inspired methods include authentic movement, Laban’s movement analysis, Fear Nano-Politics, sensory interaction via synaesthesia, Panoptic gaze, gravitational dance movement, relational explorations between body and object, spatial bodily archaeologies, action and voice dynamics (duration, rhythm, tension, release), memory and flow.
Aims
The workshops offer practical and theoretical keys for the development and process of artists or creative explorers. Participants are able to construct a multi body experience through interdisciplinary methods with community development through the exploration of voice, sound, material, visual cultures, duration, space, environment, politics, and object in relation to their bodies. These are constructed to increase the participant’s sense and control of the mind-body connection and to develop awareness and balance between internal and external aspects in a given reality. Henceforth developing intuition, physical skills, shared dialogue, and confidence for one’s personal development or artistic practice.
Working from an amalgamation of methods suited to individual ability, workshops at times may be developed on specific themes as featured in Fear Nano-Politics and Freedom Bodies where participants rediscover their hidden potential for change. Through stimulating ways of expression for alternative cross-cultural integration participants identify and remove limitations in personal expressions.
It requires an open mind: the curiosity and determination to explore a variety of different perspectives and the personal generosity to move beyond conventional assumptions and clarifies the difference and intention in Theatre and Live Art.
Duration
Workshops vary from one-day intensives, weekly or longer residency periods of 4 weeks. Formed for various contexts, held at diverse physical spaces and sites, from academic environments, galleries and public spaces, encouraging the participants to engage in the physical spaces that they encounter and respond to its immediate environment and challenges.
No experience is necessary and workshops can be lead in groups of up to 15 people.
Notice:
Workshops are also designed for therapy as treatment for cancer patients young and old. Using different methods of body and sense awareness, the workshops are designed to work with touch, sensibility, ability and creative language for each individual. Activities vary on levels.
Bikoro has several years experience of working with people of various ages, different abilities and has worked together with people with physical and mental disabilities.
Themes:
Chasing Chimeras | Making Cannibal & Lighting Crystals | Bodykite | Dance, Suspension & Flight | Laugh Out Loud (Interactive developments for Cancer patients) | Cytoplasms ( Body & senses and material intelligence creativities for Cancer patients) | Dancing on the Moon | Post-war trauma therapies | Freedom Bodies | Performance in Writing | Education as the Practice of Freedom | Transformations: Cultural Action for Freedom | Camouflage: Translation, Voice, Memory, Event | Beyond the Borders; Cultural Constructions
Languages:
English and French.
For information and bookings please contact Nathalie Mba Bikoro
Printmaking Workshops
Approach:
Non-Toxic Contemporary Printmaking Techniques for underdeveloped spaces.
These workshops focus on methods of interaction breaking conventional uses of traditional printmaking techniques and visual language often in spaces without adequate printmaking equipment. The workshops incorporate the "squat" techniques developed in West Africa by the artist back in 2009. These methods were shared and developed from 2010 in Brazil, Colombia, Congo and Mali.
Methods often entail practical group and individual exercises, applied theoretical analysis and adaptation, constructive feedback, documentation & discussion and individual tutoring.
Inspired methods include Coca-Cola metal etching.
Aims
The workshops offer practical and theoretical keys for the development and process of artists or creative explorers. Participants are able to construct new work through interdisciplinary methods with community development.
Duration:
Sessions vary from introductory 1 day intensives, 2 day intensive introduction to project-based 2 weeks intensives. The workshops are suitable for both beginners and professional artists. Workshops are offered in academic spaces, private studios, galleries and public spaces.
No experience is necessary and workshops can be lead in groups of up to 8 people according to studio capacities.
Regular workshops are held in private studios in Berlin for 2014, please contact the artist for further information.
Languages:
English; French; some Spanish
Non-Toxic Contemporary Printmaking Techniques for underdeveloped spaces.
These workshops focus on methods of interaction breaking conventional uses of traditional printmaking techniques and visual language often in spaces without adequate printmaking equipment. The workshops incorporate the "squat" techniques developed in West Africa by the artist back in 2009. These methods were shared and developed from 2010 in Brazil, Colombia, Congo and Mali.
Methods often entail practical group and individual exercises, applied theoretical analysis and adaptation, constructive feedback, documentation & discussion and individual tutoring.
Inspired methods include Coca-Cola metal etching.
Aims
The workshops offer practical and theoretical keys for the development and process of artists or creative explorers. Participants are able to construct new work through interdisciplinary methods with community development.
Duration:
Sessions vary from introductory 1 day intensives, 2 day intensive introduction to project-based 2 weeks intensives. The workshops are suitable for both beginners and professional artists. Workshops are offered in academic spaces, private studios, galleries and public spaces.
No experience is necessary and workshops can be lead in groups of up to 8 people according to studio capacities.
Regular workshops are held in private studios in Berlin for 2014, please contact the artist for further information.
Languages:
English; French; some Spanish
Workshops and private mentoring are available for university, college and professional practitioners.
The workshops focus on physical based performance and engagement in physical material. Bikoro offers several different workshop structures and can accomodate to any requests. For information or bookings please contact Bikoro.
Workshops range from 2 hours to 2 weeks for academic & special events sessions with a structure that includes body live art performance, film, installation, narrative & voice, theory and political philosophy.
Intensive weekly or longer residency workshop course periods of 4 weeks are also available.
No experience is necessary and workshops can be lead in groups of up to 15 people.
Residency workshops available as part of Open The Gate ArtLab London Residency Programme:
2 weeks - 3 months intensive workshop designed for emerging & professional artists. The workshops combine literary & film seminars, live music and art fusions, curatorial practice, physical dance & individual performances.
See details below:
www.openthegate.org.uk
Private tutoring available
Artist Consultation
Creative Arts Project Management
Curatorial Assistance
Main Workshop Themes include;
Performance in Spaces (Political Interventions and Fractured Narratives)
(Critical Art Theory, Studio Practice, Political Philosophy,
Contemporary African Anthropology and Art, History of Art,
Francophone and Anglophone African Literrature, Performance Arts practice,
Film documentary production, African social and Media Arts History, Fine Art Practice, Printmaking, Drawing
Spaces include;
2013 Fondation Blachere, Atelier des Taille Douciers, Apt, France
2013 National Museum of African Art, Washington DC USA
2013 Pitts Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
2012 Au Fil Du Fleuve, St Louis, Senegal
2012 Universidade de Bella Artes, Brazilia
2012 London South Bank University, London UK
2012 Richmond Adult College, UK
2011 Morley College, London, UK
2011 Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2011 Perpendicular, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2011 TEAK Arts Academy, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Lulea university, PAiN residency, Sweden
2011 South London Gallery, London UK
2011 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
2010 Greenwich university, London, UK
2009 Squat Museum, DNA Arts Foundation, Gabon
2007 Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany
2007 Kingston University, UK
2006 Stanley Picker Gallery, UK
2006 universidade de Bella Artes de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Full details read on here
The workshops focus on physical based performance and engagement in physical material. Bikoro offers several different workshop structures and can accomodate to any requests. For information or bookings please contact Bikoro.
Workshops range from 2 hours to 2 weeks for academic & special events sessions with a structure that includes body live art performance, film, installation, narrative & voice, theory and political philosophy.
Intensive weekly or longer residency workshop course periods of 4 weeks are also available.
No experience is necessary and workshops can be lead in groups of up to 15 people.
Residency workshops available as part of Open The Gate ArtLab London Residency Programme:
2 weeks - 3 months intensive workshop designed for emerging & professional artists. The workshops combine literary & film seminars, live music and art fusions, curatorial practice, physical dance & individual performances.
See details below:
www.openthegate.org.uk
Private tutoring available
Artist Consultation
Creative Arts Project Management
Curatorial Assistance
Main Workshop Themes include;
Performance in Spaces (Political Interventions and Fractured Narratives)
(Critical Art Theory, Studio Practice, Political Philosophy,
Contemporary African Anthropology and Art, History of Art,
Francophone and Anglophone African Literrature, Performance Arts practice,
Film documentary production, African social and Media Arts History, Fine Art Practice, Printmaking, Drawing
Spaces include;
2013 Fondation Blachere, Atelier des Taille Douciers, Apt, France
2013 National Museum of African Art, Washington DC USA
2013 Pitts Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
2012 Au Fil Du Fleuve, St Louis, Senegal
2012 Universidade de Bella Artes, Brazilia
2012 London South Bank University, London UK
2012 Richmond Adult College, UK
2011 Morley College, London, UK
2011 Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2011 Perpendicular, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2011 TEAK Arts Academy, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Lulea university, PAiN residency, Sweden
2011 South London Gallery, London UK
2011 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
2010 Greenwich university, London, UK
2009 Squat Museum, DNA Arts Foundation, Gabon
2007 Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany
2007 Kingston University, UK
2006 Stanley Picker Gallery, UK
2006 universidade de Bella Artes de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Full details read on here
