ROUNDTABLE SERIES: Berlin, SAVVY Contemporary, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, precursor to the opening of the exhibition, 23 May 2014 Berlin, SAVVY Contemporary, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 25 - 28 June 2014 Thursday, June 26 10am–1pm "Imaginary of the Present: Current Images of African Worlds" Roundtable with Simon Njami (curator, art critic, Paris), Binyavanga Wainaina (writer and art critic, Nairobi), Yacouba Konaté (curator, art critic, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Cocody, Abidjan), moderated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (curator, Art Director SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin) 2–6pm "Carving up and Carving out: Ideologies of Making Space" Roundtable with Paul Goodwin (curator, urbanist, Professor of Black Art and Design, University of the Arts, London), Sarah Nuttall (Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), Peggy Piesche (scholar and researcher, Bayreuth Academy for Advanced African Studies, Berlin), Sarah Rifky (curator, Cairo), moderated by Storm Janse van Rensburg (curator, Berlin) Venue: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Friday, June 27 11:30am–1:30pm "Contained Measures of a Kolanut", Intervention and talk with Otobong Nkanga (artist, Antwerp) 1:30–4:30pm "Fleshing the Archive: Performance / Orality / Embodiment of History" Roundtable with Olivier Marbœuf (curator, Paris), Tavia Nyong'o (cultural scientist, historian, New York), Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (artist, Berlin), moderated by Elena Agudio (art historian, curator, Berlin) Venue: SAVVY Contemporary 5–8pm "Pre-Writing History: Past / Future" Roundtable with Premesh Lalu (Professor of History, Director Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town), Elvira Dyangane Ose (curator, Tate Modern, London), Greg Tate (writer, musician, New York), Jimmy Ogonga (artist, Nairobi), moderated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (curator, Art Director SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin) 8:30–9:30pm Black Mass Biotek BaKol - Performance with Greg Tate (writer, musician, New York), Satch Hoyt (artist, Berlin), Christina Wheeler (musician, artist, Berlin), followed by DJ and bar In cooperation with the TURN Meeting #1: On perspectives, facts and fictions by the German Federal Cultural Foundation Venue: Heimathafen Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin Filipa César / Suleimane Biai Regulado n.b.k. Showroom Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal. Since 2011, her research is focused on the film production in Guinea-Bissau, the beginnings of which were closely linked to the struggle for liberation. In February, in Birbam, about three hours north of the capital Bissau, for a period of three weeks, she has been documenting, together with the filmmaker Suleimane Biai, the construction of a house that will serve the surrounding villages as a meeting space. Alongside his work as a filmmaker, Suleimane Biai is the régulo in this region and hence has assumed the duties of the head and conciliator of the community. Regulado, an installation conceived for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, is named after the régulo's scope of responsibility, usually an association of several villages. The installation results from a confrontation, which occurred in the course of shooting in Birbam and by which the cinematic action was called upon in unforeseen ways. Centered around two related videos, each of them shot in one take, the installation sketches relationships between various discursive and physical spaces, which intertwine within this encounter: the régulo's scope of responsibilities and the staging space in front of the film camera, but also the assembly hall built off-scene, a mobile cinema in Birbam and the showroom in Berlin. Curated by Tobias Hering In cooperation with the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, in frame of the project Visionary Archive, funded by the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation SATELLITE PROJECTS: Marrakech, 5th Marrakech Biennal, March 1st – 22nd, 2014 Nairobi, Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA) and The NEST, March 11-14, 2014 Dakar, Kër Thiossane: September 2014 (dates tba) Lagos, Video Art Network (VAN Lagos), October 2014 (dates tba) Johannesburg, Parking Gallery/ (VANSA), November 2014 (dates tba)

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