«KAM» Noble
Viviane Maghela, Eric Takukam & Enya Obert - Residencyprogramm Decolonizing the Digital
PLEASE NOTE: THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE ACADEMY FOR THEATRE AND DIGITALITY: SPEICHERSTRASSE 17, 44147 DORTMUND.
KAM Noble is a collaborative research project by Viviane Maghela, art curator (Cameroon), Eric Takukam, digital artist (Cameroon), and Enya Obert, digital artist and developer (Germany).
Challenging colonial lagacies and shifting ways of seeing, listening, knowing, thinking, doing and being
In a world increasingly governed by technologies that promise connections but usually intensify social divides, how can we use arts and creative space to bring a decolonial approach to digital transformation, foster connections among individuals from disparate backgrounds, facilitate exchange of ideas and perspectives, contributing to rise a more interconnected and empathetic society? How can art and culture disrupt and reshape narratives of indigenous communities around technologies?
Decolonizing technology requires both personal and collective transformations, actively engage in knowledge sharing, fostering mutual learning an unlearning, exchange across disciplines, backgrounds and cultural perspectives.
The project is rooted in Africa's rich cultural heritage, and seeks to increase minority voices in the global digital sphere. We see digital space not only as a space for creative expression, but also as a place of resistance, memory, reclamation, transformation, and healing.
At the intersection of media art, interactive gaming, and immersive storytelling,«Kam» is a space a where audiences engage with questions of identity, belonging, and the sustainability of indiginous epistemicis across space, suggesting pathways to reconnect with lost ancestral wisdoms capable to trigger systemic change and shift the present narrative of survival to one of sustainability and resilience..
How can we re-envision a world where digital and ancestral technologies coexist in harmony «Kam» a reminder of the enduring power and value of indigenous knowledge and its role in shaping our collective future. It reaffirms the inseparability of body, mind and earth in African cosmology, making the personal universal and the ancestral contemporary.
