Peer to peer session hosted by Annette Schemmel and Marjolijn Dijkman
at the studio of Marjolijn Dijkman in Rotterdam.
As part of Talking About! a peer-to-peer exchange session took place on Saturday 12 September 2009, in which international artists and cultural producers discussed their existing and upcoming projects on the transit between Africa/Cameroon and Europe.
Talking About! (initiated and organized by Zoë Gray (curator, Witte de With) and Lucia Babina (founder, iStrike)) brought six artists and cultural producers from Cameroon to the Netherlands: Ruth Belinga (artist, curator, Yaoundé), Goddy Leye (artist, founder of artist’s initiative Art Bakery, Douala), Hervé Youmbi (artist, member of the collective Cercle Kapsiki, Douala), Achillekà Komguen (artist, editor of newspaper Diartgonale, Yaoundé), Lionel Manga (writer, Douala), Achille Atina (cultural mediator, Douala).
Additionally we had Hervé Yamguen (artist, member of the collective Cercle Kapsiki, Douala), Emiliano Gandolfi (curator), Alexander Vollebregt (artist), Kaleb de Groot (artist), Meruro Washida (curator), David Maroto (artist), Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson (artists) as discussion partners with us.
