LIZZARD LOUNGE
Informal performance evening by Admire Kamudzengerere
Thursday, 24th April, 20:00 hrs.
Thami Mnyele Foundation Artist in Residence
Bellamystraat 21
1053 BE Amsterdam
Thursday, 24th April, the three-months work period of Admire Kamudzengerere (Zimbabwe, 1981), in the Thami Mnele Foundation will be concluded with a performance evening in his studio.
This informal presentation is based on his project the Lizzard Lounge.
Several performances will by presented, among others by: Nathan Azhderian (Rijksakademie), Tanja Ritterbex (De Arteliers), Lev Kazanchenko (Rijksakademie), Ida Katinka Fridan Pederson (The Theatre School) and Toby Paul -aka Racketmanoby DJ- (Gerrit Rietveld Academy). As a guest speaker Edith Rijnja, art historian, publicist and cultural ambassador for artists and art projects in Africa and Asia, is invited to give an introduction.
The first Lizzard Lounge took place in Zimbabwe last summer. Together with his fellow residents of the Rijksakademie, Kate Levant and Aditya Mandayam, Kamudzengerere travelled around in his motherland Zimbabwe with the Lizzard Lounge transformed into an "Artist Mobile Residency". Through "ghosting around day and night" as he calls it, mutual ideas on life and artistic concepts as well as conflicts and reflections about being in another context, became part of the daily activity and led to changing attitudes of people participating.
The idea for the Lizzard Lounge (with double 'z') is comparable to arts clubs during the past centuries; think of Louise Bourgeois' "Sunday Saloons". One can say that it is about exchange on an informal level, not necessarily with fixed subjects.
We like to welcome you with drinks and snacks - to the Lizzard lounge, the performance evening, where one never knows which directions will be taken.
Thami Mnyele Foundation
With special thanks to: Edith Rijnja
Thami Mnyele Foundation
Bellamystraat 21
Amsterdam
www.thami-mnyele.nl
Since 1992, Artist in Residence for African Artist in Amsterdam.
Email: info@thami-mnyele.nl
http://www.thami-mnyele.nl
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HOW TO GET THERE:
Tram 7, 17 stop Ten Katemarkt.