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Elsa Westreicher

@elsawestreicher.bsky.social

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Communication design & decolonial questions 📍Berlin & Kinshasa 🆕 Mwano Studio 🆗 11 yrs freelance, 6 yrs SAVVY Contemporary, 2 yrs Stan Hema 🆗 Alumna Central Saint Martins, The New School, Burg Giebichenstein

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 19

Here we go 🧚‍♀️ Nada Tshibwabwa and me are making our endeavours with Mwano Studio in #kinshasa #drcongo #congo more public 🪄✨ Go follow to stay up to date 💜 #artivism #contemporaryart #art #music #community #pluriversal #mwanostudio #design #liquid #congoriver #kongo

Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Apr 19

Website launch! 🌀 Mwano Studio is a space of transdisciplinary work and exchange in Kinshasa, D. R. Congo, that creates opportunities of co-creation, linking diverse knowledges with each other in order to stand up for a pluriversal world and against exploitative destruction. 🌀 shorturl.at/8DvLU

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Aug 5

Songs we like at Mwano Studio #2: The queen, Mimi Mongo, who left this planet far too soon to join the ancestors www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIQC... #music #congo #drcongo #rdcongo #art

Mimi Mongo Final Interview.

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Jul 16

Interview with Josie Fanon on Haiti Radio #fanon #josiefanon #frantzfanon #haiti #tiersmonde #decolonisation

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Josie Fanon, l'épouse du psychiatre Frantz Fanon (1979)

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Jul 15

Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice (MA thesis in Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design) 🙏 A longue durée perspective on precolonial, colonial and postcolonial histories of adaptation and resistance through design. #designhistory #design #typedesign

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Jul 12

🫧 Degree show time 🫧 Glimpse of my MA thesis: »Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice«. Huge thanks to everyone that was involved 💜 #signwriting #signpainting #research #design #designhistory #visualculture #designstudies #typography #kinshasa #drcongo #decolonial #art #theory

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Jun 17

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ON VIOLENCE #2 Stefano Harney & Fred Moten / Discussion

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Jun 10

Happy to have contributed to this 💜🌱 Concert tonight in Berlin: www.tip-berlin.de/event/musik+... #berlin #joy #music #coverart #graphicdesign #jazz #punk #collaboration #crossings #drcongo #nadatshibwabwa #mwanostudio #skalitzer #westgermany #luisevolkmann #kikudinucci #friendship #graphicdesign

Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Jun 10

Mwano Studio designed the cover for the single Enxame by Luise Volkmann and Kiku Dinucci, a German-Colombian Jazz-Punk-Mix. Enjoy the doings of some of our recent collaborators: tinyurl.com/yy92jhhx #concert #berlin #jazz #punk #music #coverart #illustration #contemporary #drcongo #colombia #cologne

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Jun 7

Homme Tshombo (cellphone man), a figure created by Nada Tshibwabwa, as it appeared in the village of Sao in 2020, as one of the very first arts activities of Mwano Studio youtu.be/ZgicE1QWIxA?... #kinshasa #congo #kongo #art #performance #village #dialogue #workshop #contemporaryart #nadatshibwabwa

Performance Homme Tshombo — Nada Tshibwabwa — Sao Village 2020

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our Okra plants are growing 🌱🌱 Who can spot the soursop / guanábana tree growing under their leaves, that might provide us with the most delicious fruits in about five years? 🌳💜 #garden #seedlings #food #growing #health #congo #kinshasa #nature #agriculture #sharing #power #green #guanabana #okra

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · May 26

Multiplying decolonial whirls – second day teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. #teachingdesign #design #graphicdesign #photigraphy #colonial #archive #coloniality #pluriversal #congo #typography #signpainting

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · May 24

Meet Pagero one of the very talented kids in our neighbourhood who have become regulars at Mwano Studio 🔥
#workshops #instruments #art #music #contemporaryart #artivism #recycling #congo #kinshasa #rdcongo #congolesemusic #africanmusic #drums #rhythms #reclaiming #mwanostudio #nadatshibwabwa

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · May 20

💜💜 Such a joy to listen to Báyò Akómoláfé and Erin Manning thinking out loud 💜💜 so grateful 💜💜 centerforneweconomics.org/events/becom... #whiteness #blackness #racism #dei #freedom #minorgestures

Becoming Unsettled: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us - Schumacher Center for a New Economics

“You aren’t white unless you act white” — Fred Moten A common mistake of thought reduces whiteness to a recognizable quality that a specific population “has”. There are ‘Black’ people, ‘Brown’ people,...

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · May 20

One of our main readings during a seminar I will teach next week will be this book: "Potential History — Unlearning Imperialism" by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. It has been deeply influential for me, so I am really looking forward to discuss it with the students 💟 #book #seminar #reading #art #design

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · May 14

Instruments in the making 🥁🔥 During the last couple of days we have been collecting and recycling all sorts of objects with the children and artists in the neighbourhood… Now we are putting them together and testing them… Stay tuned! #accoustic #analogue #recycling #music #art #fundraiser #sound

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · May 10

One of the brightest stars in contemporary art from the African continent passed on to the extra-worldly. I am speechless, without words. May you rest in peace, Koyo Kouoh. And may your brightness continue to shine and inspire.

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · May 8

Some of my favourite people and places in Berlin "They strive to develop and promote an understanding of cosmopolitanism in the plural which combines visions of transcultural justice, peace and conviviality with an ethical commitment to difference and alterity." www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · May 3

#atstake Fred Moten cited in Manning's "The Minor Gesture" #oldenburg #justiceforlorenz

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 30

#justice4lorenz #lorenz #oldenburg #niedersachsen #silencekills #defundthepolice #policebrutality #silolidarity #standingtogether

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 30

Lorenz, a young Black man, was shot 4 times, in the back, by the #police in #oldenburg #germany. We will not be silent. #silence #kills #racism #kills. We remember all the lives lost to #policebrutality and #systemicracism. Today at 4pm in #berlin. #schweigentötet #niedersachsen 📸 #ouryjalloh 2019

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 29

"When there is a song about the subject matter, the subject matter does not have the last word" 🔥 #cornelwest #blackmusic #music #bluenote #aminor #blackatlantic #jazz

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Cornel West “The Musical Vocation in our Bleak Times" 2022 UC Regents’ Lecture

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Apr 27

Encouraged by the #support our #fundraiser gets [link in bio], we started the first part of activities around #earth #soil #plants #arts and #collaborativework today 💚 #mwanostudio #workshops #nature #congo #kinshasa #artivist #contemporaryart #courage #art #kids #culture #africa #afrika #gofundme

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Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 26

One of the best panels I have attended in the recent past ❤️❤️❤️ Seloua Luste Boulbina, Nikita Dhawan and Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, moderated by Maboula Soumahoro 🪄✨ @hkw-berlin.bsky.social #deberliniserung #1885 #congoconference #berlin #congo #pluriversal #coloniality #utopia #worlds #meeting #crossing

Elsa Westreicher @elsawestreicher.bsky.social · Apr 25

At @hkw-berlin.bsky.social a beautiful and hopeful conference started, departing from 140 years of the #congoconference to think worlds beyond #coloniality. Memories of the first year at #savvycontemporary came back & the first #graphicdesign I made there 🦋 #berlin #deberlinisation #deberlinisierung

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Mwano Studio @mwanostudio.bsky.social · Apr 24

Costumes come out in the open to recreate balance, especially in moments in which communal life is being disrupted. The artists Nada Tshibwabwa, Spiritus Bongonda, and Wijo created a performance for peace at #mwanostudio #kinshasa #drcongo this #eastersunday. #freecongo #contemporaryart #artivists

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