<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867</id><updated>2011-11-14T10:28:41.957+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Déplacements culturels / déplacements métropolitains</title><subtitle type='html'>Carnet d'une géographie de l'art à Nairobi, Kenya</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-1691983621216139800</id><published>2011-11-12T13:56:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T14:32:33.873+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Proposition d’article pour la revue Transcontinentales n°11 : L’émergence de nouveaux marchés de l’art</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Titre provisoire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;“&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Nairobiis not an art market, it’s an art farm&lt;/i&gt;”. &lt;/span&gt;Connexions etdéconnexions&amp;nbsp;métropolitaines à Nairobi, Kenya&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ufd7NFHXUho/Tr5RS7iqKpI/AAAAAAAACao/GQ2SUUl2OEE/s1600/20111006_1998.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="211" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ufd7NFHXUho/Tr5RS7iqKpI/AAAAAAAACao/GQ2SUUl2OEE/s320/20111006_1998.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Peterson Kamwathi dans son studio à Kiambu, octobre 2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Résumé&lt;/b&gt; : &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Depuis une décennie, Nairobiprésente une concentration singulière et inédite d’activités artistiques,saluées par la critique comme une «&amp;nbsp;Renaissance culturelle&amp;nbsp;» àl’échelle est-africaine. Pourtant, lors d’un entretien dans son studio enpériphérie de la ville, Peterson Kamwathi, figure majeure de l’art contemporainkenyan, tournait en dérision l’idée qu’il y aurait un marché de l’art àNairobi. Selon lui, Nairobi serait plutôt une «&amp;nbsp;ferme de l’art&amp;nbsp;». Pourcet artiste qui fait le tour de l’Afrique et du monde pour participer à desworkshops, bénéficier de résidences et exposer à Johannesburg, Londres ouNew-York, cette métaphore agricole qui déprécie le poids de Nairobi est sous-tendue par un imaginairede la hiérarchisation spatiale de la production artistique. Pourdevenir marché, l’art produit à Nairobi se devrait d’être acheminé en dehors dela ville. L’hypothèse que nous interrogeons est que la métropolisation conditionneces déplacements de la «&amp;nbsp;ferme&amp;nbsp;» au «&amp;nbsp;marché&amp;nbsp;».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le concept de «&amp;nbsp;véhicule del’art&amp;nbsp;», développé dans cet article, permet de rendre compte des modalitéset du sens des déplacements qui font le marché. A Nairobi, les artistes ontlongtemps usé d’un véhicule «&amp;nbsp;domestique&amp;nbsp;», c'est-à-dire œuvrantdirectement pour une population expatriée vivant ou traversant la ville et répondantà leurs sollicitations stylistiques et idéologiques. Ce véhicule a créé unmarché en circuit fermé. Aujourd’hui, pourtant, certains centres d’art ouréseaux institutionnels développent des connexions entre la ville et la scènemondiale de l’art. Ces connexions, archipélagiques et épisodiques, introduisentun véhicule que l’on appellera «&amp;nbsp;métropolitain&amp;nbsp;», avec un agenda, unlangage et un modèle économique propre. Notre article propose d’étudier lebasculement entre le véhicule domestique et le véhicule métropolitain par l’angledes pratiques spatiales d’artistes à Nairobi. Il s’agira de se demander commentles artistes s’inscrivent dans des véhicules de l’art par leurs pratiques quotidienneset leurs trajectoires professionnelles. Plus largement, on cherchera à comprendre comment unegrande ville au Sud, marginale sur la carte mondiale de l’art, se branche etfait exister ces échelles métropolitaines. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Mots-clés&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;: véhiculesde l’art, pratiques spatiales, métropolisation, art contemporain, Nairobi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Olivier Marcel, octobre 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://transcontinentales.revues.org/1050"&gt;http://transcontinentales.revues.org/1050&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-1691983621216139800?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1691983621216139800/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/proposition-darticle-pour-la-revue.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/1691983621216139800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/1691983621216139800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2011/11/proposition-darticle-pour-la-revue.html' title='Proposition d’article pour la revue Transcontinentales n°11 : L’émergence de nouveaux marchés de l’art'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ufd7NFHXUho/Tr5RS7iqKpI/AAAAAAAACao/GQ2SUUl2OEE/s72-c/20111006_1998.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-3055788908047438789</id><published>2011-10-16T22:56:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T13:34:37.689+03:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.apela.fr/2011/09/12/1067/"&gt;Marcel O., 2011, « Le Nairobi des poètes : une géographie des pratiques littéraires de la "génération kwani"», Etudes Littéraires Africaines n°31 : &lt;i&gt;Nairobi. Urbanités contemporaines&lt;/i&gt;, pp. 25-38.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yz3IRU9ZTP8/Tps1EsCo_bI/AAAAAAAACac/Ms5vlWW8xoo/s1600/20110310_0291.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yz3IRU9ZTP8/Tps1EsCo_bI/AAAAAAAACac/Ms5vlWW8xoo/s320/20110310_0291.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Comment se construit lafigure de l’écrivain contemporain dans l’espace métropolitain de Nairobi&amp;nbsp;? J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;’ai interrogé lespratiques spatiales de deux poètes particulièrement visibles sur la scènelittéraire lors de mon terrain, et représentants tous deux à leurs façons lenouveau visage de la littérature kenyane&amp;nbsp;: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo et TonyMochama. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-3055788908047438789?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/3055788908047438789/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2011/10/marcel-o.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/3055788908047438789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/3055788908047438789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2011/10/marcel-o.html' title=''/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yz3IRU9ZTP8/Tps1EsCo_bI/AAAAAAAACac/Ms5vlWW8xoo/s72-c/20110310_0291.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-7333603810569858200</id><published>2011-02-21T14:50:00.005+03:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T16:23:06.995+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Nairobi Walking</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;"In Nairobi, the showcase of globalised Kenya and its full capitalistic growth, the figure of the walker symbolises migrations at different scales. In life trajectories, the city appears like a temporary place for social promotion and enrichment, and therefore a stopover point for a growing number of Kenyans. In daily migrations, the CBD acts like powerful lungs, breathing in costumed businessmen and breathing them out in an asphyxiating cloud of matatus and 4x4s. In this staturated flux of contrasted destinies, the figure of the walker is also the one of a society that marches at different speeds; that builds and fragments itself like a house of cards."&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;noautoplay=1&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Foliv.marcel%2Falbumid%2F5395899946516528657%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Dfr" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" height="267"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;A photo essay by Olivier Marcel, 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-7333603810569858200?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/7333603810569858200/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/nairobi-walking.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/7333603810569858200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/7333603810569858200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2011/02/nairobi-walking.html' title='Nairobi Walking'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-5574481423338826641</id><published>2010-07-26T13:00:00.008+03:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T13:53:43.342+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Evans Ng'ang'a on University Way</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TE1eHFgqzAI/AAAAAAAACA8/Bmpms9nNre4/s1600/20100701_0038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TE1eHFgqzAI/AAAAAAAACA8/Bmpms9nNre4/s400/20100701_0038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498154195920538626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Building a road on the  rumble of a freshly built and destroyed police building, a Chinese  company demonstrates both the power of its entrepreneurship and the  utter planlessness of Nairobi. Just like the city that hosts his art,  Evans’ career as a contemporary dancer is mostly unplanned. For over  five years, he has been “&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;working everywhere, for no one and for  everyone&lt;/span&gt;”,  on most of the scenes in town (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sarakasi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;GoDown&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;KNT&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Goethe &lt;/span&gt;or  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Alliance&lt;/span&gt;), and with many different dancers and choreographers, both  Kenyan and foreign (Kebaya Moturi, Neema Bagamuhunda, Miriam Rother,  Stephanie Thiersch, etc.). Nairobi offers so many of these opportunities that Evans doesn't feel the need to struggle for those  international platforms that most Kenyan artists dream about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You don’t sell dances  on DVD, they have to be performed on a stage. Even though Kenyans are very  poor at appreciating art, Nairobi has enough market.&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/blockquote&gt;Despite this genuine  confidence in the development of the culture sector, the state of the  art in Kenya is still one of a chrysalis. The path to recognition was  first drawn by pioneers like Opiyo Okatch in the 1990’s. But, still  today, very few people are willing to understand the body language and  vocabulary of contemporary dance. According to Evans, serious dancers  and choreographers in Kenya are a mere 30 individuals. It is a common  stereotype for the African continent that music and dance have since the  dawn of time been associated with every event in society. The dance  produced by this young and urban generation has little if any tradition  to stick to and is becoming more and more independent project wise.  Follow artists like Evans to see where that road leads to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TE1eHFgqzAI/AAAAAAAACA8/Bmpms9nNre4/s1600/20100701_0038.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TE1feKRSiYI/AAAAAAAACBE/6F490H_XigA/s1600/20100720_0013.jpg"&gt;Bonus picture&lt;/a&gt;: Evans  rests after teaching yoga at the Sarakasi Dome for the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;African Yoga  Project&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-5574481423338826641?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/5574481423338826641/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/07/evanson-nganga-on-university-way.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/5574481423338826641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/5574481423338826641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/07/evanson-nganga-on-university-way.html' title='Evans Ng&apos;ang&apos;a on University Way'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TE1eHFgqzAI/AAAAAAAACA8/Bmpms9nNre4/s72-c/20100701_0038.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-3575518490518737756</id><published>2010-07-07T14:07:00.008+03:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T18:31:35.064+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Jacob Oketch in Wasanii</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TDRgOrb6_UI/AAAAAAAAB_c/fTBOv0vjztk/s1600/20100508_3419.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TDRgOrb6_UI/AAAAAAAAB_c/fTBOv0vjztk/s400/20100508_3419.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491119650965749058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Nairobi is a land of opportunities. But Kenyan society doesn’t believe  in art and artists are used to shying away. They should sensitize  themselves to the fact that they are key decision makers.” Jacob  Oketch&lt;/blockquote&gt;It is a common discourse amongst &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;wananchi&lt;/span&gt;  that culture in Kenya is still a rural asset and that the city is only a den of vice. However, in recent years, Nairobi has seen art spaces expand and a whole host of cultural agents invest in them, making Nairobi a cultural metropolis in its own right. But to who is this flourishing activity addressed? Indeed, one could argue that cultural production in the city has had a strong tendency to cater for the expatriate market, providing only exportable art such as paintings, sculptures or attire that represent a limited idea of Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Storytelling is one of those arts that is difficult to export. As Jacob Oketch will say, eye contact with the public is essential. While using Dholuo, he is famous for exuberant, overflowing and very communicative performances. According to him, storytelling is also an art that has an important history in African societies and one that should be better valued. Some institutions are pushing to make these art forms more visible on the kenyan art scene. Storytelling can now be found in different places in town, at poetry and open mic events organised by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Kwani? &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;PEN&lt;/span&gt;, or in festivals that occur from time to time (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sigana&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Jukwaani&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;WaPi&lt;/span&gt;, etc.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacob participates in some of those events, but his main base - like a large part of the art community - is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wasanii&lt;/span&gt;, the bar above &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;National Theatre&lt;/span&gt; in the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Kenya Cultural Centre&lt;/span&gt;. Despite the sarcasm triggered by the '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;National&lt;/span&gt;' nature of the centre, the KCC has grown into a thriving hub for artists who meet there on a daily basis to exchange ideas and projects. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Polopiatch!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-3575518490518737756?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/3575518490518737756/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/07/jacob-oketch-in-wasanii.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/3575518490518737756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/3575518490518737756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/07/jacob-oketch-in-wasanii.html' title='Jacob Oketch in Wasanii'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TDRgOrb6_UI/AAAAAAAAB_c/fTBOv0vjztk/s72-c/20100508_3419.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-1924115529961433916</id><published>2010-06-16T19:40:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T00:18:08.424+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Grand Masese on Tom Mboya Street</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TBIGZm75H4I/AAAAAAAAB7s/Y2X2qWfUvy0/s1600/20100408_nairobi_3134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TBIGZm75H4I/AAAAAAAAB7s/Y2X2qWfUvy0/s400/20100408_nairobi_3134.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481450733481566082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Before we perceive its actual centrality in the practice of the city for most nairobians, Tom Mboya Street often appears like a frontier that divides the town in two culturally distinct landscapes. It marks the end of the corporate business district and the beginning of the lower commercial part of town. It's the line beyond which one ceases to see CCTVs, businessmen using two cellphones and enters the frantic Nairobi whereby hooting matatus, shouting hawkers, witchdoctors and varieties of sheng are heard. The divide has produced negative myths that encompass social groups, cultural practices and entire chunks of urban space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crossing Tom Mboya is a true straddler. Masese indeed speaks the language of both sides with fluent authority and his life, music and poetry synthesises those conflicting identities. On his shoulder lies one of his &lt;a href="http://grandmasterobokano.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-sweet-baby-my-wife.html"&gt;sweet babies&lt;/a&gt;, an obokano that resonates from the iron sheets of the slums to the leafy Nairobi. The city he depicts sometimes on the most prestigious scenes in town is a  land where hardship, violence and injustice is daily bread. From his rural childhood he has kept popular folk references which he utilises to inform, narrate and soothe urban life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Monday morning I went to town,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I went to town to search for a job,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I met the police. Bakamboria gijana gijana,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wewe nani, jina lago nani, unatoga wapi, unaenda wapi, can you produce your ID, toa tribers licence na logboog yago ya gutembea usigu. Ati you're innocent? Innocent kitu gani ? [...] Can you buy your freedom ?&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;GrandMasese - Monday Morning&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Watch Masese on &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bV0gXXW0iI&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;CultureTV&lt;/a&gt; or go to his upcoming events, &lt;a href="http://nairobinow.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/concert-an-artist-a-singer-a-poet-jun-18-2010-karen-country-lodge/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://nairobinow.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/charity-concert-music-4-hemophilia-jun-26-2010-carnivor/"&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-1924115529961433916?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/1924115529961433916/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/06/grandmaster-masese-on-tom-mboya-street.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/1924115529961433916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/1924115529961433916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/06/grandmaster-masese-on-tom-mboya-street.html' title='Grand Masese on Tom Mboya Street'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/TBIGZm75H4I/AAAAAAAAB7s/Y2X2qWfUvy0/s72-c/20100408_nairobi_3134.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-3278277595282798813</id><published>2010-04-18T23:23:00.006+03:00</published><updated>2010-06-16T19:43:30.054+03:00</updated><title type='text'>L'accession à la visibilité, article Mambo avec Emmanuelle Peyvel</title><content type='html'>Dans le cadre d'un échange entre l'ENS de Lyon et l'IFRA-Nairobi, nous avons passé une semaine sur la côte kenyane. Suite à ce terrain, voici l'article que nous avons pondu pour la publication de l'IFRA:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ayant données lieu à des constructions académiques séparées, les mises en patrimoine et les mises en tourisme contemporaines n'en procèdent pas moins d'une même logique. Dans le cadre de l'Afrique Orientale et plus spécifiquement celui de la région la plus touristique du Kenya, la logique observée est d'accéder à une visibilité internationales. La concomitance de ces pratiques avec le regain d'intérêt de certains investisseurs contribue à faire exister une scène du patrimoine et du tourisme.&lt;/blockquote&gt; A lire ici : &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3m9M68YJeoRMzE0YjRhMTktMGZkZi00ODVlLWE0OTAtZDI1ZjUyMzM3NGFj&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;L'accession à la visibilité ; les marges de la côte kenyane entrent sur la scène du patrimoine et du tourisme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-3278277595282798813?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3m9M68YJeoRMzE0YjRhMTktMGZkZi00ODVlLWE0OTAtZDI1ZjUyMzM3NGFj&amp;hl=en' title='L&apos;accession à la visibilité, article Mambo avec Emmanuelle Peyvel'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/3278277595282798813/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/04/laccession-la-visibilite-article-mambo.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/3278277595282798813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/3278277595282798813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2010/04/laccession-la-visibilite-article-mambo.html' title='L&apos;accession à la visibilité, article Mambo avec Emmanuelle Peyvel'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183869097294477867.post-268553960674480641</id><published>2009-11-03T14:11:00.010+03:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T22:27:30.621+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Mémoire M2 - Les institutions du patrimoine à Nairobi</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;“&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;How can you build a future when your past was spoiled? What kind of references are left? The contemporary African artist has no choice but to embark on a fiction&lt;/span&gt;”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Simon Njami, commissaire de l’exposition « Amnesia » au GoDown Arts Center, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399839801203293842" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/SvAVsIq8_pI/AAAAAAAAAaU/5torACc5neo/s320/image002.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dans ce mémoire, j'essaye de décrire les &lt;i&gt;fictions&lt;/i&gt; construites par différents pouvoirs du patrimoine à Nairobi: de l'institution centrale (NMK), à l'organisation artistique (GoDown) en passant par les initiatives communautaires.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6183869097294477867-268553960674480641?l=eaculture.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3m9M68YJeoRNjhlOTlkYTMtYTNlMy00NjkxLWE3MmMtNjJlNTllMzhlMTIw&amp;hl=en' title='Mémoire M2 - Les institutions du patrimoine à Nairobi'/><link rel='enclosure' type='pdf' href='http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3m9M68YJeoRNjhlOTlkYTMtYTNlMy00NjkxLWE3MmMtNjJlNTllMzhlMTIw&amp;hl=en' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/feeds/268553960674480641/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2009/11/memoire-m2-les-institutions-du.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/268553960674480641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6183869097294477867/posts/default/268553960674480641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eaculture.blogspot.com/2009/11/memoire-m2-les-institutions-du.html' title='Mémoire M2 - Les institutions du patrimoine à Nairobi'/><author><name>Olivier Marcel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00028877842716331433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_laQ8KxrGazc/SvAVsIq8_pI/AAAAAAAAAaU/5torACc5neo/s72-c/image002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
