Radio Kinzonzi // Audio Works and Live Radio in Kinshasa and Berlin for Laboratoire Kontempo 2021–22 //11–14th May live from Berlin
Radio Kinzonzi with Orakle Ngoy, Jasmina, Ralf and the participants and friends
Radio Kinzonzi is back broadcasting from Berlin ACUD and Haus der Statistik live together with the Laboratoire Kontempo team and participant artists: sounds, poetry, street, speaking voice, singing voice, bird voice, readings, existent audio works, open questions, sonifying the actions and performances of the program, jamming, building up serial moments of language exchanges that make Kinzonzi and Miziki audible.
Program of our radio
11–14 May 4–8 pm daily hosted by Radio Kinzonzi team With Orakle, Ralf and Jasmina
Broadcasted in Cashmere Radio (Berlin), Studio Ansage (Berlin) 88.4 FM, Radio Orange (Vienna, Austria) 94.0 FM
Sphere Radio (Leipzig), Radio Tsonami (Valparaiso, Chile), Tesla Fm (Barcelona, Spain), Radio Kapitał (Warsaw, Poland) and online on https://labkontempo.com
Steaming Link
11 MAY 4–8 PM LIVE FROM HAUS DER STATISTIK HAUS D, OTTO-BRAUN-STRASSE 70–72, 10178 BERLIN
Theme: (Coloniality) of languages in arts
We are a multilingual group speaking English and French mostly, we discuss the linguistic colonial legacies while speaking colonial languages. We come together as well in other forms of communication and communion in many other languages. What words do we use and why? How are the words Kinzonzi or Miziki placed in our context of the project happening between Kinshasa and Berlin? And what is the genealogy of deciding what words we use on the forefront of this gathering.
12 MAY 4–8 PM LIVE FROM HAUS DER STATISTIK HAUS D, OTTO-BRAUN-STRASSE 70–72, 10178 BERLIN
Theme: transmisssssssion
We are bound to translation but also to transmission. In the Laboratoire kontempo Kinzonzi, we find ourselves in various relationships with the parameters of our identities, memory, position, landscape and when we get the mic to speak together, intersections show us in relation. What are our tools of transmission, from technologies to timelines? What do we know, feel and learn and from whom? What are our tools and where do they come from? And how does that reflection go out in our art?
13 MAY 4–8 PM LIVE FROM HAUS DER STATISTIK HAUS D, OTTO-BRAUN-STRASSE 70–72, 10178 BERLIN
Theme: do it yourself with others
We did not like school, but school gave us some tools to fight it. What can we learn from exchanging with each other, facing together the unknown. We organise ourselves, manage ourselves, find different ways to source our passions and what we want to communicate. What does it mean to us and what does it take nowadays to be an independent artist? Especially in a Kinzonzi sense, what are the challenges that we can share and what do we want to change?
14 MAY 4–8 PM LIVE FROM ACUD MACHT NEU VETERANENSTRASSE 21, 10119 BERLIN
Theme: art is work is art
An afternoon about gatherings, collective activity and togetherness between artists and cultural workers transcending art, a group mediation of differences and commons, the diasporic realities and their reflections in our lives. What and how art spaces and forms change when Kinshasa and Berlin collaborate? How do our worlds intersect and what happens after we meet? Filterless talks about struggles, burdens and goals find their space here.
Radio Kinzonzi // Audio Works and Live Radio in Kinshasa for Laboratoire Kontempo 2021
15th October Live from Kinshasa
Radio Kinzonzi with Orakle Ngoy, Jasmina, Ralf and the participants and friends
Together we are diving deep in the research of new ways to communicate without hierarchies and borders from Kinshasa to your ears through radio. Together we look at terms, art is just one of them. We sonify KINZONZI and various meanings people have to it in several languages, without the desire to understand but to sense. We get to know each other in this way. Our words, our thoughts, become mirrors, so that those who lose their memory, can see themselves. Together we surround secrets to make them public. Discussions, discourses, audio images, rhythms of streets come together with voices of non humans and machines. Radio Kinzonzi proposes an honest way of being.
Orakle Ngoy (*1981) is an artist and musician (slammer, rapper and performer) from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a law graduate, creator of the Afrika Diva collective, working for the emergence of female talent in the DR Congo, holder of the Yambi City festival, activist and mother.
For many years, she has been speaking out against hate, sexism, inequality and violence. Her art is a hardcore appeal to the people of Kinshasa to respect “Mamans” and all women. Her music is like her, a mix of gaiety, ghetto and Kinshasa realities, mixing Congolese musical styles, folk and performance art. Since 2018, she is vice-president of the Arterial Network in Kinshasa. She has been involved in many projects inside and outside the borders of Congo (to name a few): Yambi, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin and Kinshasa, 2019; Spinning Triangles, S A V V Y Contemporary, Berlin and Kinshasa, 2019; Punch Agathe, Pumpenhaus, Münster and Stuttgart, 2019; Concerts in Tunis (Journées Musicales de Carthage, 2018); Brazzaville (Mbote Hip-Hop, 2018); Dakar (Afropolitan, 2018) etc. Since 2018, she has been running the Yambi City festival, produced with the members of Afrika Diva Collectif, which she created in 2014. She fights to network and promote the Congolese scene.
At Radio Okapi
Before the live transmission, we Orakle, Jasmina and Ralf started publishing their radiophonic work done in Kinshasa in Radio Okapi. We had a chat with Mr. Jean-Marc Matwaki Mofelele who interviewed and introduced our intervention on the term and topics of Kinzonzi together with voices of the participants and friends of Laboratoire Kontempo 2021/22 on Radio Okapi. The intervention was audible on Friday 15th 16–18h; Friday on Décrochage “Info Kin” from 16h05 to 17h and from 20h to 21h; Saturday from 14h05′ and the magazine Okapi Métissage from 17h to 19h; Sunday from 13h to 15h on FM in DR Congo: Kinshasa 103.5; Bunia 104.9; Bukavu 95.3; Goma 95.5; Kindu 103.0; Kisangani 94.8; Lubumbashi 95.8; Matadi 102.0; Mbandaka 103.0; Mbuji-mayi 93.8 and online.
Radio Kinzonzi // 15.10.2021 // Live from Kinshasa
during the Vernissage of Laboratoire Kontempo at the National Museum of the DRCongo
We transmitted live the opening of Laboratoire Kontempo 2021/22 Kinzonzi exhibition National Museum of DRC on the 15th of October from 5 to 8 pm Kinshasa time. The live mobile radio action done by Jasmina, Orakle and Ralf consisted of collages of the topics of Kinzonzi before and during the exhibition; we can hear various perspectives and angles, we can imagine a Kinzonzi universe made by the great artists and audiences in Kinshasa. We’ve listened together to bits and pieces of Kill Bill’s performance, sounds of artwork, the concert of Village Papa Nyangombe. People we spoke with: Mega Mingiedi and Taxi Radio, Mukenge/Schellhammer, Priska Tankwey, Rachel Nyangombe, Viko Moussa, Paulvi Ngimbi, Jean Kamba, Miguel Buenrostro, Luiza Prado, Jérôme Chazeix, Huguette Tolinga, Raul Walch, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Jérôme Chazeix, Luiza Prado, Peter Miyalu, Cornelia Lund, Darwin Mumete, Rordrigo and the list will be permanently updated. The radio program also played music and voice from Priska Tankwey and Paulvi Ngimbi installation of the exhibition and music from the band Fulu Miziki and Antoine, the guitar player we met at Chez TinTin. An artwork by: Adonis Delta
Radio Mischpoke’s presence in Kinshasa was supported by Goethe-Institut in München.