Do, 02.02.2023, 19:30 Uhr

Afropollination x MS Stubnitz 2023

Afropollination x MS Stubnitz 2023 today with artists from Ivory Coast, South Africa, Rwanda, France & Germany After a couple of days of their residency & workshops aboard BLOOMFELD x PHATSTOKI x MIZIGURUKA | MENZI x DEBMASTER serve us two never seen und new live performances. It's all about music and dance! non-genre specific | electronic | bass | performance | gqom | kuduros | grime | glitch | breakbeat | skweee AFROPOLLINATION: Collaborative Artistic Projects between Africa and Germany A notable programme feature of this edition is the Afropollination project – an initiative by Boutique Foundation / Nyege Nyege (Kampala) and Piranha Arts (Berlin), with MS Stubnitz, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Cosmo Radio and CTM Festival, funded through the Fonds TURN2 of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany. Afropollination aims to encapsulate the process of artistic and social cultural pollination, facilitating creative encounters between artists, genres, disciplines, identities, ideas, cultures, technologies, and communities from various regions of Africa and Germany. Among other, the artists will take part in residencies to create new work, and host workshops. entry: 19:30 start: 20:30 presale 14€ (+ fee + 1 club euro | fair-tix.de donation) box office: 18€ reduced admission for students, pupils and welfare recipients at the box office: 10€ Tickets: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/46055 https://www.ticketmaster.de/event/493475 3-day-pass for all Afropollination shows: https://www.tixforgigs.com/de-DE/Event/46172 https://www.ticketmaster.de/event/494195 Facebook-Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/536997791629402 Afropollionation: https://www.facebook.com/afropollination https://www.instagram.com/afropollination https://linktr.ee/afropollination https://www.piranha-arts.com/#afropollination https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/musik_und_klang/detail/afropollination.html NyegeNyege: https://www.youtube.com/c/NyegeNyegeMusic https://www.facebook.com/nyegetapes https://www.instagram.com/nyegenyege https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com Hakuna Kulala: https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/hakunakulal https://www.instagram.com/hakuna.kulala MUSIC AND DANCE Music and dance have always gone hand in hand in Africa, but unfortunately when represented internationally, the two often get disentangled. With this project we want to re-contextualize the music through its dance element, and take it a step further by involving contemporary dancers and choreographers to create new modern interpretations to the music from the project. The first phase of the project tookplace in Uganda around the Nyege Nyege Festival 2022 with residencies before and after the festival as well as artists’ shows and debates at the festival. Further phases will take place in 2023 in Germany at the CTM festival in Berlin, at MS Stubnitz in Hamburg, at Festsaal Kreuzberg for the closing Afropollination event in June 2023 and with a partnership with Cosmo Radio (Cologne). Definition: “Pollination is the transfer of pollen later enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.” ***** ***** ***** BLOOMFELD, Germany, Producer: Bloomfeld is researching and documenting innovative momentums across all domains of cultural production. His own music, digital art, and performance aim at expanding the intersection of ethno-futurist braindance and functional/hedonistic club heat. While allowing for the heads to over-intellectualise, Bloomfeld’s output often exposes what comes out of the speakers as just wiggly air after all. Existence is a cosmic joke. Bloomfeld runs the Overthinker Mob research imprint, among many other missions “rejecting conventional formats for releasing music“ (FACT Mag) by „putting out unfinished or “overthought” music from artists anonymously“ (Resident Advisor) – Compiling „a diverse range of anti-ego club tunes and somber atmospheres“ (Electronic Beats). He has been a founding member of multiple community radio projects in Germany and the UK, and held a residency on Rinse FM with his “Culture vs. Reality“ show. Links: https://www.instagram.com/bloomfeld https://soundcloud.com/bloomfeld https://lobstertheremin.com/album/larp-os https://cheekymusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/probe-report-1 https://www.facebook.com/Bloomfeld https://ra.co/dj/bloomfeld https://twitter.com/overthinkermob - "Stamina" released on Live From Earth VA (Berlin Based Label): https://soundcloud.com/livefromearth/bloomfeld-stamina - Latest mix for Fact Magazine : https://soundcloud.com/factmag/fact-mix-864-bloomfeld-jun-22 - Mix for Ilian Tape: https://soundcloud.com/ilian-tape/itps074-bloomfeld - https://open.spotify.com/artist/36MRGLmyxzncxEPHgThdVg?si=N4WJGrydQtSG0Luf98oQIQ PHATSTOKI, South Afrika, DJ: Phatstoki (pronounced phat stoki) is a Joburg-based DJ who describes her sound as “non-genre specific”. Phatstoki is known for her surgical transitions and her ability to mix a range of sounds, reading the room to get your body moving! Phatstoki is the co-founder of P*ssy Party, a night that exists to create a regular platform for queer, femme and women DJs/artists to practice, incubate, exchange, and expose. She has since received acclaim from local press such as Bubblegum Club (cover featue) and Between 10and5. P*ssy Party has steadily grown its stature in the city, in large part on the back of Phatstoki’s clear insights and masterful, moving DJ sets. The team has since hosted parties in Durban and Cape Town, and collaborated with international acts, providing workshops for those eager to learn. Phatstoki has played at some of the world’s most favoured music events/festivals such as OppiKoppi, Basha Uhuru, Zakifo, CTM Festival, Nyege Nyege, and AfroPunk to name a few. Phatstoki has graced 5 Boiler Room sets with her work. She closed for M.I.A during her South African tour, and DJed for highly acclaimed and multi award winning musician; Sho Madjozi for a ittle over 3 yeras. With a powerful ethical core and far-reaching vision of her peers and the future, Phatstoki is luminary in her various and overlapping fields of interest. Links: www.soundcloud.com/phatstoki https://instagram.com/phatstoki http://www.phatstokiphotography.blogspot.co.za/ https://www.facebook.com/phatstoki MIZIGURUKA, Rwanda, Artistic performer, dancer: Natacha MUZIRAMAKENGA also known by her artist’s name Miziguruka is a multidisciplinary artist. She has worked for 15 years as a poet, performer, actress, director and translator. Recurring themes in her work are resilience, the female body, female freedoms, memory and transmission. Her performances combine poetry with a deejay set and live music and fire spinning. As an actress she has featured in films such as “Neptune Frost” by Saul Williams an Anisia Uzeyman, “Petit Pays” of Eric Barbier, “Grey Matter” by Kivu Ruhorahoza, “ “ A Sunday in Kigali” by Robert Favreau. Natacha's work as an author was published in Wasafari magazine on November 18, 2020 and in 2019 in a collective work "Au dessous des Volcans" published by Sepia. She contributed both as a writer and a performer to the play "Learning Feminism from Rwanda" which is touring all over Germany and Switzerland with the Flinn Works company between 2020 and 2021. Miziguruka’s latest performances where presented in Berlin “Frequencies Festival” organized by Goethe Institut in May 2022. Links: https://www.instagram.com/miziguruka/ https://youtu.be/tb9fy2zsrk4 https://vimeo.com/585807556 https://vimeo.com/571766723 MENZI, South Africa, Producer Menzi is one of the early pioneers of the Gqom scene. Hailing from the Umlazi township of Durban in South Africa, he rose to prominence as a member of the Infamous Boiz, whose influence can be heard in clubs across the world. As a producer, he has supplied beats for some of South Africa’s biggest acts, such as Moonchild Sanelly, Mahotella Queens, Zolani Mahola and Zakes Bantwini. By diverging from the genre's usual track structure and arrangements, Menzi has crafted a unique sound exploring Gqom textures, as shown on his EP Impazamo, recently released by Nyege Nyege’s Hakuna Kulala. Links: https://www.instagram.com/menzi_official https://twitter.com/menziofficial https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com/album/impazamo https://scratchadva.bandcamp.com/track/storm-vz-grave https://scratchadva.bandcamp.com/track/whoo-hoo-menzi-remix https://open.spotify.com/artist/0us3Osmp1y1uKHBsGFlNuw?si=_fuRnnWZTPKVmc8HloDbYw DEBMASTER, France/Germany, Producer French, yet a "Berliner" for the past 12 years, Julien Deblois aka Debmaster, is the eclectic producer behind many of the exciting releases on Hakuna Kulala. While Debmaster had a lot of fun playing live with his noisy friends in Berlin (Jason Forrest, Patric Catani, Chris Imler & others "crazy people"). His 2015 encounter with the overactive Nyege Nyege scene was the perfect outlet when they invited him to send "some beats" for artists who were recording weekly in a DIY recording studio in Kampala. Mc Yallah and him started to work together around 2018 for the first EP Ndi Mukazi, quickly followed by Kubali. He now produces music every day, mainly for Hakuna Kulala and Mc Yallah. He is also behind releases of Ecko Bazz (Mmaso), Biga yut (Walah), Will'stone (Mbv5) and more to come... Links: https://www.debmaster.hotglue.me https://debmaster.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/debmaster https://www.instagram.com/debmaster_the_real_one https://www.youtube.com/debmaster https://open.spotify.com/artist/44DI5jAUWYRStA0amIvFRl?si=w-5yYm_bRE6m8gg9DQEUxQ