• Sat 10 11 2018 •
Kizobazoba – Fashion Performance & Concert of Ange da Costa & the DreamBus Kizobazoba

With WENDY BASHI, MAREIKE BRUNS, ANGE DA COSTA & THE DREAMBUS, J-J DA COSTA, NADINE HANAN GRÖGER, LOVA LOVA, ALEX NYILAS, CEDRICK NZOLO, MARINNA DA RE, AMELIE RENZ, ADÈLE SALTERS, DOROTHEE WENNER and more

Concept and direction: DOROTHEE WENNER

19:00

Venue: studiobühneköln, Universitätsstraße 16a, 50937 Köln
Tickets via studiobühneköln, 15€ / 7€ reduced
In english and german language

In cooperation with AMD Akademie Mode & Design and ISAM Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers, Kinshasa

Kizobazoba stands for a specific Congolese delight in improvising, it describes survival strategies and is philosophy at the same time. The project Kizobazoba programmatically takes up this word, which is in wide use in Kinshasa, combining fashion design, film, and music into a trans medial fashion performance.

For Kizobazoba fashion students at the Akademie Mode & Design (AMD) in Berlin and the Institut supérieur des arts et métiers (ISAM) in Kinshasa have designed their own collections, which will be presented by Congolese and German performers, models, and musicians at various places at studiobühne köln. Dress codes as a protest against post-colonial stereotypes. Outfits that spur on gender bending. Glamour flirts with streetwear, upcycling conquers the luxury sector. the exoticism of the west is reflected back from the south. The web documentary Kinshasa Collection by DOROTHEE WENNER was the starting point for Kizobazoba. Contributors to both projects pursued further transnational traces in the globalized fashion world. Kizobazoba shows fashion that dares to use borders as a springboard into the next chapter. Inspired and accompanied by live music from ANGE DA COSTA and LOVA LOVA.

Kizobazoba kicks off the program axis Festival of Original Fakes, which deals with artistic creativity beyond the parameters of trademark protection and copyright and examines aesthetic strategies that expressly undercut these concepts.

WENDY BASHI is a Congolese filmmaker, journalist, and moderator. She moderated the fashion show at the presentation of the Kinshasa Collection at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and participates in Kizobazoba as a performer. She lives in Cologne.

MAREIKE BRUNS is a masters student at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. The focus of her research is the connection between theater and film elements. Her work with Kizobazoba is both academic and as a performer and writer.

ANGE DA COSTA is a Congolese musician and performer based in Berlin. He worked as a musical advisor for the Kinshasa Collection, with his music playing a central role in the fashion show. The web series also formed the starting point for an artistic collaboration between Ange da Costa and Lova Lova.

J-J DA COSTA, producer of music and music videos from Cologne, also collaborates with his brother Ange da Costa.

LOVA LOVA aka Wilfred Beki is a musician, performer, sapeur, and cultural activist and was an important protagonist in the web series Kinshasa Collection.

ALEX NYILAS, studied fashion design at the AMD, Berlin, and designed the collection CONGOLESE NIGHTS for Kizobazoba.

CEDRICK NZOLO NGAMBOU, designer and professor at the Institut supérieur des arts et métiers (ISAM), Kinshasa, supervised the development and conception of collections made by students at ISAM for Kizobazoba.

MARINNA DA RE studied fashion design at the AMD, Berlin and designed the collection GOD SAVE LA SAPE for Kizobazoba.

AMELIE RENZ is a student of ethnology at the University of Leipzig. The African continent, in particular western and central Africa, is the regional focus of her theoretical examinations on post-coloniality. Her participation in Kizobazoba includes being a performer and a social media content creator.

ADÈLE SALTERS studied fashion design at the AMD, Berlin and designed the collection ABACOST for Kizobazoba.

DOROTHEE WENNER is a writer, curator, and director of the web series Kinshasa Collection. She has taken on artistic direction of Kizobazoba as a guest curator.

Cooperation partners/Supporters:

AMD Akademie Mode & Design
ISAM Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers, Kinshasa
Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
Goethe Institut Kinshasa
GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig
Afrika Film Festival Köln
GEMEINSAM FÜR AFRIKA
Ifs internationale filmschule köln
Kinshasa Collection
Musikfonds
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Theaterakademie Köln
Universität zu Köln