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Exhibition: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
18th Busan International Video Art Festival
Space Heem, Busan, South Korea
October 5 – 27, 2024
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, South Korea
November 15 – December 29, 2024
@ Video Art Busan
@ Space Heem
@ Gyeongnam Art Museum
Artists
Andrés SALAS / Elom 20ce & Musquiqui CHIHYING & Gregor KASPER / Johannes GIERLINGER & Mira KLUG / LEE Kai Chung / SU Yu Hsin
Artists × Guest Curators
Jesse MCLEAN × Sujeong HAN / Santiphap INKONG-NGAM × Voraprat KHARANANT / Seo Young CHANG × Minju JUNG / Sophie VUKOVIĆ × Yul CHO / WU Chi-Yu × Zoe YEH
Exhibition: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
CAPTURING NOWNESS
MoCA Taipeh X DresdenContemporaryArt Collaborative Video Art Project
Kraftwerk Mitte, Dresden, Germany
September 21 – October 22, 2024
@ DresdenContemporaryArt
@ C.Rockefeller - Center for the Contemporary Arts
CAPTURING NOWNESS
Der ewige Augenblick, das „Hier und Jetzt“, ist ein zentrales Konzept, das in vielen spirituellen und philosophischen Traditionen präsent ist. Im Taoismus wird diese Idee durch das Prinzip des Wu Wei zutiefst reflektiert. Wu Wei bedeutet „Nicht-Handeln“ oder, genauer gesagt, „Handeln im Einklang mit dem natürlichen Fluss der Dinge“. Es beschreibt einen Zustand, in dem man sich mühelos durch das Leben bewegt, in Harmonie mit der Natur, anstatt gegen sie anzukämpfen.
Das Konzept des immerwährenden Augenblicks findet seine Entsprechung in der Vorstellung des Taoismus, dass das Leben nur in der Gegenwart vollständig erlebt und verstanden werden kann. Die Vergangenheit ist bereits vergangen, die Zukunft ist noch nicht eingetroffen – alles, was real und greifbar ist, ist das Jetzt. Durch Wu Wei wird dieser Moment jedoch weder erzwungen noch kontrolliert, sondern man lässt ihn sich ganz natürlich entfalten. Im Zustand des Wu Wei handelt man, ohne auf die Zukunft zu projizieren oder von der Vergangenheit belastet zu sein – man handelt natürlich, spontan und in voller Übereinstimmung mit dem, was in der Gegenwart geschieht.
Der offene Aufruf für künstlerische Filme „CAPTURING NOWNESS“ lud Filmemacher ein, diesen subtilen und doch tiefgreifenden Zustand filmisch zu erkunden. Es geht darum, wie wir den gegenwärtigen Moment erleben, indem wir uns dem Fluss des Lebens hingeben, anstatt uns von äußeren oder inneren Zwängen leiten zu lassen. Die Herausforderung besteht darin, das Ungreifbare – das „Jetzt“ – einzufangen und es durch Bilder und Geschichten zum Leben zu erwecken. Die Filmemacher waren aufgerufen, diese Essenz der Zeitlosigkeit zum Ausdruck zu bringen, indem sie die Beziehung zwischen den Menschen und dem Augenblick im Geiste von Wu Wei darstellen: die Handlung, die ohne Streben geschieht, und das Leben, das sich im Jetzt verwirklicht.
Alba T Álvarez / Sabrina Bellenzier / Tatjana Bikic / Moritz Simon Geist + Robert Arnold / Ibrahim Quraishi / Lucas Oertel + Heinz Schmoeller / Musquiqui Chihying + Elom 20ce + Gregor Kasper / Caroline Beach / Felix Ermacora / Julius Günzel + Maja Nagel / Wang Yahui / Yuan Goang-Ming / Chen I-Chun / Hsu Che-Yu / Guo-Jun + Chen Ching-Yuan
Curated by Thomas Dumke, Ya Wen Fu, Andreas Ullrich, Wang Ding-Yeh.
Book Launch & Performance & Screening: Painting Maison Gbegbe 1 & 2 / The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
Gbegbetopia
Developing Maison Gbegbe through grassroots engagement and participatory arts-based research
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
July 12 2024 – 18:00 - 22:00
@ Archive Books
@ SAVVY Contemporary
Gbegbetopia - Developing Maison Gbegbe Through Grassroots Engagement and Participatory Arts-Based Research
Publication contributors: Nadja Afouatey-Alazard, Messanh Amedegato, Sename Koffi Agbodjinou, Musquiqui Chihying, Rosilla Gousanou, Augusto Gerardi Rousset, Mathilde ter Heijne, Elom 20ce, Gregor Kasper, Kaija Kaitavuori, Adjo Nassougou, Amy Patton, Anani Dodji Sanouvi
About the publication
Inspired by Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia, the publication brings together texts and reflections on Maison Gbegbe, an inter-religious cultural center in Togo focused on exchange, reconciliation, and critical thinking.
Collaboratively developed by the Union des Cultes Traditionnels du Togo (UCTT), L’Africaine d'Architecture, and art&dialogue e.V., Maison Gbegbe uses artistic research to address ecological and social crises and to promote alternative knowledge systems beyond Western epistemology.
The publication provides an overview of the creation process and motivations behind Maison Gbegbe.
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
16th Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival
International Competition - Documentary
Greece
July 2 2024
@ Psarokokalo
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
18th River Film Festival
Competition - Anthropocene
Padua, Italy
June 12 2024 - 22:00
@ River Film Festival
Screening: The Currency – Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
21st Vienna Shorts
International Competition – Fiction & Documentary – International Competition
Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
June 1 2024 – 20:30
@ Vienna Shorts
Panel Discussion
21st Vienna Shorts – Industry Talks
Something Better Change: Film & Activism
Depot, Vienna, Austria
May 31 2024 – 15:15
@ Industry - Talks
Something Better Change: Film & Activism
Cinematic art serves as a powerful catalyst for shifting public perception and has been closely linked with activist causes since its inception. In the realm of short film, many artists are increasingly focused on challenging the status quo and addressing the current socio-political climate, driven by a yearning for change, one short film at a time. Film directors Christoph Schwarz, Nastia Korkia (Dreams of Putin) and Gregor Kasper (The Currency – Sensing 1 Agbobloshie) will join us to discuss their own engagement in the context of filmmaking practice and share the films that have provided them with inspiration and courage.
Curated By Bojana Bregar; in cooperation with Talking Shorts
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
11th Riga Pasaules Film Festival (RPFF)
Short Films: Transformation
Kino Bize, Riga, Latvia
April 26, 2024 - 16:30
@ RPFF
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
36th Filmfest Dresden
Special Program: Experiments - Like a Phoenix from the Ashes…
Schauburg, Dresden, Germany
April 20 & 21, 2024 - 19:30 & 18:30
@ FILMFEST DRESDEN
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
30. Internationale Kurzfilmwoche // 30th Short Film Week Regensburg
German Competition #3 - (R)Evolution
Filmgalerie, Regensburg, Germany
March 10, 2024 - 16:30
@ Kurzfilmwoche
Screening + Artist Talk: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
Structural Stowaway
Basis, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
December 07, 2023 - 19:00
@ basis
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
40th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest (Kassel Dokfest)
Kassel, Germany
November 14 - 19, 2023
@ Dokfest
Talk
Interforum
Interfilm Festival, Berlin, Germany
November 16, 2023 - 13:00
@ Interfilm
Musquiqui Chihying, Gregor Kasper and Yugen Yah - The Lighting
What About Skin Tones? Opening the Black Box of Lighting
Screening and Filmtalk between Director Musquiqui Chihying, Producer Gregor Kasper and Actor Yugen Yah.
In this discussion, the filmmakers will present their work "The Lighting" while offering profound insights into the intricate matter of technical bias within the domain of filmmaking. Moreover, they will delve into the exploration of how it mirrors the current geopolitical landscape, particularly concerning technology production supply within the Global South, with a particular focus on the interplay between East Asia and the African continent.
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
65 ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
International Short Film Competition
Bilbao, Spain
November 10 - 17, 2023
@ ZINEBI
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
Die große Menschenschau
Neubad, Luzern, Switzerland
October 31 + November 03, 2023 - 19:30
@ Menschenschau
Workshop: The Currency Lab
The Oceans and the Interpreters - The Currency Lab Lagos
Yaba Art Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
October 30 + 31, 2023
Exhibition: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie // The Currency Lab
The Oceans and the Interpreters
CCA - Yaba Art Museum / MADHOUSE, Lagos, Nigeria
October 28 - November 18, 2023
@ CCA Lagos
AU Sow Yee / CHANG En Man + Temitayo Ogunbiyi / CHE Onejoon / LIN Jin Da + YU Cheng Che / HOO Fan Chon / Naeem Mohaiemen / Musquiqui Chihying + Elom 20ce + Gregor Kasper / Tuan Andrew Nguyen / Mark Salvatus / Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Curated by TAKAMORI Nobuo.
Interview: The Guestbook & Café Togo
Alternative Histories and Translocal Echoes - An Interview with Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - voices (online), Dresden, Germany
October 18, 2023
@Englisch German
by Mia Yu
Screening & Talk: Café Togo & The Guestbook
Sommerkino
WRG Sensor, Braunschweig, Germany
September 23, 2023 - 20:00
@ WRG Sensor
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
15th DMZ Docs - International Documentary Film Festival
ASIAN PREMIERE
Goyang City / Paju City, South Korea
September 14 - 21, 2023
@ DMZ
Exhibition: The Currency
Structural Stowaway
Basis, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
September 14 - December 10, 2023
@ basis
basis e.V. presents the exhibition "Structural Stowaway" artistic positions that, using China as a point of departure, address the impact of global interconnections and geopolitical ambitions from historical and contemporary perspectives. The artists Musquiqui Chihying, Elom 20ce with Gregor Kasper, Peng Ke, Xiaoshi Qin, Hu Wei, and the collective Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva, Solveig Qu Suess) employ the power of artistic expression to visually represent this web of planetary networks and their stowaways.
"Structural Stowaway" gives us an insight into the complexity and contradictions of our globalised world. In addition, various works in the exhibition illustrate how complex the global networks between Asia and the rest of the world have now become, and how landscapes are permeated by a multitude of interests from different nations. At a time of natural disasters, war and the recent pandemic, the exhibition invites us to reflect on the complexity of our world. It highlights how history, legends, and myths permeate our present. At the same time, it shows how information networks and global structures shape our world.
Curated by Antonie Angerer and Anna-Viktoria Eschbach.
Exhibition - Public Space: Verbindungen Nachspüren // Sensing Connections
Wantalon @ Kunst Fest Zeitz
Public Space, Zeitz, Germany
September 08 - 10, 2023
Guided Tour: September 09 - 15:00
@ Wantalon
@ Kunstverein Zeitz
Wantalon - Schatten // Shadows
Bachrun LoMele, Christian Gundtoft, Freizeitgruppe Gestaltung, Gregor Kasper,
Johanna Failer, Ledia Konstandini, Matías Ernstorfer, Rachel TonThat, Stefanie Kraut, Unit 404
Curated by Diana Artus & Petra Mattheis
Screening: The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
76 Locarno Film Festival
WORLD PREMIERE
Pardi di domani: Concorso internazionale - International Competition Short Film
Locarno, Suisse
August 02 - 12, 2023
@ Locarno Film Festival
@ ubiquarian (review)
A landscape of electronic equipment leftovers, embedded in biting clouds of smoke, burnt earth and dirty water.
In Agbogbloshie - one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites in the middle of Accra - they were dismantled and burnt in order to return their metals to the industrial recycling cycles.
In between, an observer who, by means of acoustic field research, investigates this place as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes and questions this from a spiritual perspective.
Online-Exhibition: The Guestbook
Counterpoints: Focus China
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen - ON SCREEN / voices, Dresden, Germany
August 1 - October 31, 2023
ON SCREEN @ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Counterpoints: Focus China
Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kasper, PU Yingwei, YAO Qingmei, WANG Tuo,
curated by Mia YU.
Despite the shared history of socialism, contemporary China and the former GDR resist simplistic, point-by-point comparisons and references. Still, thinking about the former GDR in proximity to China, and vice versa, serves as a useful and productive approach. These selected artists have critically engaged revolutionary histories, languages, aesthetics, architectural spaces and dislocated ideologies. Their films compose an alternative collage of trans-historical storylines, trans-local connections and disjuncture. Through such collage, China, the former GDR as well as all other locales with shared socialist histories and unresolved traumas may serve as refracted images of one and another.
Exhibition & Performance: Café Togo & Café Cameroon
8th RAVY Biennale 2023 - Identités Rhizomiques
Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon
July 03 - 09, 2023
@ RAVY
@ artouch (review)
Screening: The Currency
Worlds on Fire
E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany
June 09, 2023
@ E-Werk
Screening: Café Togo
4th Taipei Dangdai
Our Place 我們家 / Taipei Platform 台北開放平台 @ Taipei Dangdai 台北當代, Taipei, Taiwan
May 12-14, 2023
@ Dangdai
Our Place 我們家 invited three Taiwanese artists whose works examine the residue of the intricate cross-national history. Through looking for the missing Goddess of the Sea from the old Chinatown in London, through re-encountering Grandmother’s painting in a Chinese restaurant in the USA, through renaming the streets infused with colonial ‘heritage’ in Berlin, in “Looking for Chinatown” by Ting-Ting Cheng, “This Shore” by Tzu-An Wu and “Café Togo” by Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kasper, we, as audience, are invited to travel within the personal yet political narratives geographically.
Taipei Dangdai’s screening event takes place at Taipei Platform, organized by Our Place 我們家.
Presentation: and in my garden is growing the world
openART
DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany
April 28, 2023
@ DA Kunsthaus
Discussion
Exit Happyland
Filmfest Dresden / Hole of Fame, Dresden, Germany
April 21, 2023
@ Heinrich Böll Stiftung
@ Filmfest Dresden
Exhibition: The Currency
The Oceans and the Interpreters - 海洋與詮釋者
Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
October 22, 2022 - January 15, 2023
@ Hong Gah Museum Taipei
Exhibition: The Currency
JUBILEE X
HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
June 18 - July 03, 2022
@ Frontviews
Exhibition: The Guestbook
The Intimate Revolt – 野餐计划
Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China
June 11 - August 07, 2022
@ Goethe-Institut Beijing
Screening: Café Togo
黑影展 - Black, A Film Festival
C-LAB - Taiwan Sound Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
May 20 & 22, 2022
@ expcinema.org
@ catalog (EN)
Workshop: Atelier ouvert de peinture
Activités de pré-configuration de la Maison Gbégbé
Maison Gbégbé, Agouegan, Togo
May 05 & May 07, 2022
@ l’Union des Cultes Traditionnelles du Togo
Exhibition: 19:89 selbst:gespräche
Messages
Projektraum Galerie M, Berlin, Germany
April 25 - June 12, 2022
Opening April 23 @ 18:00
@ NKI - Neue Kunst Initiative, Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Online Publication: Soundcheck
Gefährdete Demokratie?! Drei künstlerische Ausrufezeichen
Vermittlungsmaterial für eine künstlerische Unterrichtspraxis in den Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen, Berlin, Germany
December, 2021
@ MATERIAL:Box - Kulturagent*innen Berlin
Online Publication & Screening: p{o:s_i/t*i,o]n's #sika dede
Equi-vocal
AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research), Berlin, Germany
December 27, 2021
@ AFSAR
Online Presentation: The Currency - Proof of Ambiguity
ADAM 2021 Rehearsing (for) the Future
Host: River Lin, Special Guest: John Tain
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
December 16, 2021 @ 12:00 (GMT+1) / 19:00 (GMT+8)
@ Taipei Performing Arts Center
Screening: Café Togo
Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun: Trade
Vernàcular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
October 23, 2021 @ 20:00
@ Vernàcular Institute
Screening & Artist Talk: Café Togo
TERRITORIES UNDER MY SKIN / RE-VISITED
Goethe-Institut, Windhoek, Namibia
October 21, 2021 @ 19:30
Press Text
@ Goethe-Institut
Artist Talk
THEY:LIVE — Student lives revealed through context based art practices
Changing Room, Berlin, Germany
October 04, 2021 @ 18:00
@ THEY:LIVE
@ Art in Context // Berlin University of the Arts
Presentation: p{o:s_i/t*i,o]n's
AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research)
Archiving Talk
Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany
September 30, 2021 @ 17:00
@ Brücke Museum
Screening: Café Togo
TERRITORIES UNDER MY SKIN / RE-VISITED
Film program at City Kino Wedding, Berlin, Germany
September 05, 2021 @ 18:00
@ City Kino Wedding
@ Changing Room
Radio show: What did you hear?
YEAR 4 JUBILÄUM - PROGRAMME
sub_ʇxǝʇ radio, Berlin, Germany
June 25, 2021 @ 16:15 – 16:45
sub_ʇxǝʇ radio
Exhibition: THE CURRENCY LAB
Un Laboratoire Populaire De La Monnaie
WoeLabs (Prime), Lomé, Togo
May 29 - June 27, 2021
http://lab.the-currency.net
Online Screening: Café Togo
TERRITORIES UNDER MY SKIN.
Performances and conversations reflecting the history of the African Quarter, Berlin / Wedding
Changing Room, Berlin, Germany
May 23 - June 05, 2021
Café Togo @ Changing Room
Online Workshop: Soundcheck
Gefährdete Demokratie?! Digitaler Studientag
Kulturagent*innen für kreative Schulen, Berlin, Germany
April 21, 2021 @ 14:30 – 17:00
@ Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen Berlin