Me and You c

Me and You c

Duration:

22.08.2017 – 15.10.2017 (Performance duration: 6 days)
“Blocked the politics of open doors”, plan.d.produzentengalerie e.V., Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Photographer:

unknown

Live performance

This project is an “Object & Video interactive performance” by Yingmei Duan in collaboration with artists Andrea Isa, Maria Lentzen, Heike Ludewig, Markus Mußinghoff.

Today, people are always busy, and many of their experiences are quickly forgotten. It’s not like past times when people could keep an object, or a thing, or someone deep in their minds. For many years I’ve been travelling around the world, seeing and experiencing a lot of things, many of which I’ve forgotten. Therefore, I would like to keep my few memories through my “Object & Video interactive performance” work in collaboration with artists from plan.d. producerengalerie. e.V.

Different art media appeared in the exhibition, which awakened the viewers’ senses such as hearing, smelling, etc.

Through “Object & Video Interactive Performance” a multimedia and multidimensional performative network was created that allowed interaction between people, people and objects, objects and objects, objects and space, space and space, and outer space and inner space.

In 2016 I met some artists from plan.d. produzentengalerie. e.V. in Haifa, Israel.

Plan.d. produzentengalerie. e.V. is a gallery in Düsseldorf in Germany. Later in 2017, they invited me to participate in a seven-day residency program. My concept was to work with artists from the gallery.

Nelson Mapako

A versatile Playwright/ Director, Performance artist, Theatre Trainer and Arts Administrator who strives on exploring the limits of creativity, Nelson Mapako has been practicing professional theatre arts since 1992. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1972 where he kicked off his artistic career with Tikwele Drama Group in Hwange. Later on he formed Ezemvelo Creative Artists. He has also worked for the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre as a field officer for the Matabeleland region, Amazulu Arts Consultants as Programs Officer, Theatre and Development Initiative as Artistic Director and Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo as the inaugural Festival Administrator.

Mapako has also worked for 6 years in Swaziland (Seconded by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo province.) where apart from being the Programs and Training consultant for Swaziland Theatre for Children and Young People he was running individual theatre projects. While in Swaziland he established the Iphi ‘Africa Project. Of late 2011/ 2012 he has conducted Acting workshops for Intwasa Arts Festival ko Bulawayo in Zimbabwe as well as ParticNelson Mapako is a prolific artist who received training in Community Theatre between 1994 and 1998 through the mentorship of the late international acclaimed artist Ngugi wa Mirri. He is a holder of a Training of Trainers Certificate in Community Theatre, A General Certificate in Intellectual property from WIPO, A Diploma in Program Management and Monitoring. He has written/directed several stage & television productions including Television puppetry productions in Swaziland (Mantentekazane Swazi Television) and Zimbabwe (Khuluza ZTV) and has also featured as an actor both on stage and television. He is a recipient of the Zimbabwe’s prestigious National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Theatrical Production (OUTCAST) in 2004. He was also a nominee for the NAMA award in 2003 for his production (SIX ALL OUT) Mapako’s other works have been performed at international arts festivals such as HIFA (Social Hanger 2003) in Zimbabwe, Matiwane Manana Arts Festival in Swaziland and Out the Box in Cape Town, South Africa. Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo,Ibumba Arts Festival in Zimbabwe as well as the SASOL Schools Arts Festival (A project for Grahamstown Arts festival)in Witbank South Africa. ipatory Theatre Workshops for PLAN Zimbabwe/Intwasa Arts Festival.

His international collaborations include working with Yingmei Duan – a performance artist from Germany as well as Laway arts South Africa/Netherlands. Nelson’s works are pregnant with artistic, social, developmental and political issues that affect the existence of humanity. His latest work is “A drop in the Land” done in collaboration with Laway Arts South Africa/Netherlands.

Live performance

Nikhil Chopra

Johannes Zits

David Hancock

Di Lu

Beijing East-Village

Márcio Carvalho

Nelson Mapako

Xiaohan Han