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Events Forgotten Places - Filmscreening Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 6 p.m. Filmscreening and talk with Jacob Barua and Eva Birkenstock. Guided tour with Eva Birkenstock Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7 p.m. Guided tour with KUB Arena curator Eva Birkenstock. Artist Talk Thursday, November 8, 2012, 8 p.m. Nairobi – A State of Mind, artist talk with Jacob Barua and James Muriuki, introduction Eva Birkenstock Artist Talk Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7 p.m. Maasai Mbili Art Centre, artist talk with Kevo Stero and Otieno Gomba of the artist group Maasai Mbili, Moderation: Eva Birkenstock and Kirsten Helfrich Fashionshow Chokora Wear – Season Two Saturday, November 17, 2012, 3 p.m. Fashionshow Chokora Wear – Season Two with Maasai Mbili and the participants of the workshops, Music: Westend Jugendtreff, Kenian Catering: HLW Rankweil The exhibition concept was developed following two research trips to Nairobi undertaken by Eva Birkenstock and in close dialog with the participating artists as well as Johannes Hossfeld, Director of the Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Kenya. Page 4 | 14
Short Biographies Jacob Barua Jacob Barua (born 1967) graduated in 1989 from the University of Warwick (Great Britain), and went on to study at the National Film, TV and Theatre School in Poland. His films, such as the elegiac The Cavalier, The Welcoming and the first poetic documentary in Swahili Forgotten Places, have been shown at many festivals. He often teams up with his cinematographer brother Stan Barua, and others, including Joerg Bühlmann on the haunting Glory. Passionate about history, he was taught by the Oxford historian Aidan Williams. Jacob’s seminal historical work, Shades of Poland, was the first film to be censored in post Cold War Poland, subsequently the BBC reneged on its plan to showcase the film. His revelatory My Daddy was a Cavalryman, which was repeatedly thwarted, took 9 years to be finally broadcasted. In 1997 Jacob was one of three producers of a USA film recreating aviator’s Amelia Earhart’s tragic 1937 attempt to circle the globe. He has also worked with ARTE and ZDF. An odyssey across remote areas of Kenya in 2002 resulted in Jacob’s civil rights documentary Taking Action. He was the director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (2005–2006), having trained in Festival and Events Management at the Deutsche Welle Academy in Berlin. Since 2009 he has been collab- orating with the Granteatrino Association in Italy, special- izing in art therapy, with his multimedia presentations. Devoted to photography, and still using negative film, his most enduring series is the b&w portraits Blacksmiths of their own Fate. Series, such as Light and Form and Nairobi – A Utopia in the Eye of the Beholder, are odes to architecture. Sam Hopkins Sam Hopkins’s work responds to the specific social and political site within which he is living; as such he can be described as a site-specific artist. In a sense his art is maybe more akin to documentary; probing, investigating and re-imagining stories, characters and elements of daily life. Rather than work with strategies of reference and allusion, his approach is an attempt to make autonomous works; art which can be »read« by the viewer without them necessarily being acquainted with a specific canon of art. As his practice is triggered and defined by a context, the work exhibits a broad spectrum of both media and content. Although wary of grand narratives, much of his work does seem to revolve around issues of public space and the negotiation of participatory practice. Page 5 | 14
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