Sowing Somankidi Coura, A Generative Archive

Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré

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Sowing Somankidi Coura, A Generative Archive
2017
Mixed Media Installation

Sowing Somankidi Coura is a long- term research endeavor by Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Bouba Touré around the permacultures and archives of Somankidi Coura, a self-organized cooperative along the Senegal river founded by a group of former African migrant workers and activists in France in 1977 after the Sahel drought of 1973. Sowing Somankidi Coura unfolds and gen- erates cine-geographies that reveal the boundaries between the liberation struggles of migrant workers in France, the Pan-African history of the cooperative and potentialities of permaculture. Through a practice of filmmaking, of workshops, lectures and exhibition, Sowing Somankidi Coura, engages in the articulation of narratives of empowerment and peasant alliances. The research navigates the liaisons across partial perspectives; situated knowledges and ecosystems; heterotemporalities; affinities between soils, plants, animals and irrigation technologies; archives and reservoirs. Deploying diverse modes of image circulation, the work aimed at resisting forces of erosion, determination, national migration management politics, and the patenting of neo-colonial agro-industries.

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  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Exhibition at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2017

  • Digitalizing the photographic archive of Bouba Touré, 2015

  • Agricultural interships in the Marne region, photograph by Bouba Touré, 1976

  • Visit at the organic farm of Jostein and M. Trøite, Norway, 2019

  • Xeex Bi Du Jeex- A Luta Continua, film still, 2018

  • Seeding the fields with the inhabitant of Somankidi, Somankidi Coura, Bouba Touré, 1977.

  • Seeding the fields, Somankidi Coura, Bouba Touré, 1977.

  • Sowing Somankidi Coura, in I Slipped Into My First Metamorphosis So Quietly, Den Frie, Copenhagen, 2019

  • Sowing Somankidi Coura, in I Slipped Into My First Metamorphosis So Quietly, Den Frie, Copenhagen, 2019

  • Sowing Somankidi Coura, in I Slipped Into My First Metamorphosis So Quietly, Den Frie, Copenhagen, 2019

  • Sowing Somankidi Coura, in I Slipped Into My First Metamorphosis So Quietly, Den Frie, Copenhagen, 2019

  • View on Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • view on Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • Slide show by Bouba Touré, Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • view on Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • view on Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • Safrana, Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • the River and the Desert, Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • view on Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • Xeex Bi Du Jeex, Sowing Somankidi Coura, Kunsthall Trondheim, 2019

  • Sowing Somankidi Coura, a Generative Archive, with works by Bouba Touré, Savvy Contemporary

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