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THE QUILOMBO IS IN A PROCESS
Exhibition
Upcoming in May 2024The show will zoom in on the posters that supported and propelled the independence movements in Indonesia, South-Africa, Curaçao and Suriname.
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A STATE OF GRACE?
Exhibition
Showing until 27 April 2024A STATE OF GRACE? will manifest through processions, rituals, workshops, lectures, and discursive programs.
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Past A Surpassing Disaster
Exhibition
Concluded in 2023This is an exhibition that looks behind itself. Searching for joy around a multi-fold tragic tipping point. In the world of the surpassing disaster, the dust hasn’t settled. We are waiting to feel what has been made to overflow.
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Brave Beauties in Communion
Exhibition
Concluded in 2023This exhibition brings together works by photographers Daniel Obasi, DeLovie Kwagala, Keren Lasme, Nella Ngingo, and Stephen Tayo in an effort to understand the image of black queer liberation through a self directed and self sustained lens.
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You Can Still Be Happy and Get Wet In An Exploding Building
Exhibition
Concluded in 2021Motormond proposes a film exhibition against all weather conditions. This is an open challenge to meteorological conditions – we rise above rain and wind; we do not care about getting wet.
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Female: A Condition Devoid of Desire
Exhibition
Concluded in 2021Meet the ‘Female’ at Motormond. Being female consists of many aspects beyond what meets the eye and eventually becoming a female is an open and ongoing interpretation.
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Becoming
Exhibition
Concluded in 2021BECOMING is an exhibition that explores how materials and identities become. Dough communicates with an intricate, intimate, and intelligent softness. Even when it hardens, it still keeps a soft underbelly. Clay on the other hand is like a cat.
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Inside The Outside
Exhibition
Concluded in 2021Come see our debuts exposition in person. INSIDE THE OUTSIDE explores allyship through performance, photography and sculpture.
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I feel like my ancestors have left me 1000 voice notes to decipher
lecture
25 April 2024Musings on Southeast Asian ancestral veneration rites, temple- and manuscript culture
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Uses of the Erotic: Embodiment, Movement & Philosophies of Liberation
reading
11 April 2024Drawing on the Audre Lorde's timeless essay ‘Uses of the Erotic’ Alexine invites you to delve into the erotic with her.
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Cacao Ceremony by Zinzi de Brouwer
Cacao Ceremony
4 April 2024Cacao ceremonies are ritual-based moments where the cacao is served to come to a meditative and heart-opening state.
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Storytelling as Narrative Reclamation by Basia Diagne and Felix de Jong
discursive visual lecture
28 March 2024On Thursday the 14th of March, Basia Diagne gives a discursive visual lecture "Storytelling as Narrative Reclamation: Disrupting Colonial Visuality of Healing Ontologies".
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Boston Tea Party, Nutrition for Carers
tea party
21 March 2024Boston Tea Party, Nutrition for Carers: Casting Spells into Oyster Shells is a manifestation of artist and researcher Eshwari Ramsali’s dream.
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Pedagogies of the Sacred
reading group
7 March 2024This session is an invitation to join a collective reading and discussion of the text Pedagogies of the Sacred.
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Spirit of Dissent
sonic intervention
22 February 2024other india and Rah Naqvi guides you through the sonic intervention Spirit of dissent. This sonic intervention is informed by a long history of dissent, by elders and peers who have founded the basis for our resistance.
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Pariah by Plantation
performance
15 February 2024Hyper modulated in photography, fashion, video, and installation; this text is a symposium of black feminine expression and meditation.
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A STATE OF GRACE; of Witches, of Seance, of Voodoo, of Speaking in Tongues and Othered instances of Diasporic TRANS-portation
Exhibition Opening
25 January 2024A STATE OF GACE; of Witches, of Seance, of Voodoo, of Speaking in Tongues and Othered instances of Diasporic TRANS-portation
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City of God
Screening
19 January 2024Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s 2003 City of God will be the third film we will be showing.
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This is not a Burial, This is a Resurrection
Screening
12 January 2024Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This is not a Burial, This is a Resurrection is the second film we will be showing in our collaboration with Bar Bario.
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Neptune Frost
Screening
5 January 2024In collaboration with Bar Bario, MOTORMOND has put together a screening program with films that we feel attempt at the magical impossibility of collective healing.
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Radio Tempo Não Pára
Radio Program
5 January 2024Tune in to Radio on the 5th of January at 13:00 as our founding director Musoke Nalwoga and our board member Sunni Lamin Barrow will be in conversation about the future of MOTORMOND.
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Pelumi Adejumo
Reading
24 December 2023Pelumi Adejumo has been invited to intervene in our current exhibition: *Past A Surpassing Disaster*, to stretch at the contours of our current exhibition, speaking new meanings into it — through — a call and response with Chimira.
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Past A Surpassing Disaster
Artist Talk
2 December 2023For the finisage of our current exhibition ; PAST A SURPASSING DISASTER, Devin Allen has been invited to give an artist talk at Motormond.
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Navigating Drexciya; A Sonic Transmission
Listening session
23 November 2023NAVIGATING DREXCIYA; A SONIC TRANSMISSION is an experimental listening session that fuses personal writing, music and soundbites of Black theorists/ poets/ etc.
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Brave Beauties in Communion
Artist Talks
30 September 2023For the finisage of Brave Beauties in Communion, Daniel Obasi and DeLovie Kwagala will be in Amsterdam. They will both offer generous insights into the work that they made for the Brave Beauties in Communion exhibition.
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Artists Talks
Artist Talks
23 September 2023Brave Beauties in Communion: Artist Talks
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Shooting Session
Open Portrait shooting session
20 August 2023This Sunday, we invite you all to come dressed in your Sunday best. Nella Ngingo will host an open photo-shooting session. She will have her studio in our space and you can come with your loved ones and she will take your pictures.
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TO INTERRUPT, TO PUNCTUATE
Screening
5 May 2023With this program we attempt to subvert the way that film screenings are held. We are going to interrupt the screening of Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams’ 2021 science fiction romantic musical film NEPTUNE FROST
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Circa 7991
Book Presentation
23 April 2023We will all be in conversation, bringing you a fugitive, freaky and queered way of building institutions that is affirmative of the black and queer intersection!
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2023 Program Presentation
Year Program Presentation
10 April 2023Together with other independent platforms that are affiliated with Sandberg Institute and Rietveld Academy we will present our 2023 year program.
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Identity As Protest
Lecture
21 October 2021Frida Kahlo seems to have lived her entire life in defiance of normalcy. In this lecture, Musoke Nawolga and Kenza Badi wans to show how the younger generation of by their own means is doing the same.
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Female Film Friday
Screening
27 August 2021We are screening ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’ (2019) directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
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Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation
Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation. This exhibition brings together works by contemporary photographers Daniel Obasi, DeLovie Kwagala, Keren Lasme, Nella Ngingo, and Stephen Tayo.
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Imagining A Black Queer Institution
“Instant coffee is the hallmark of current rhetoric. But we do have time. We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Not all speed is movement” – Toni Cade Bambara.