Ishango Encounter, Goma

The Ishango Encounter festival is by put on every year by Yole!Africa in Goma, in the east of the DR Congo. By remembering ancestral knowledge and drawing on films, installations, performances and discussions, the role of art in living together in society is reconceived.. Arsenal is presenting five films on this year’s theme of Belonging: Through a trick, Nii Kwate Owoo gained access to the depot of the British Museum, where he filmed the African artefacts stored there for YOU HIDE ME (1970). THE EMBASSY (Filipa César, 2012) explores the representations of the country of Guinea-Bissau by the former colonial power of Portugal and the production of memory. ZAHLVATERSCHAFT (Moritz Siebert, 2020) is a portrait of the grandson of a colonial official from Togo, who is fighting to retain his German citizenship. In TÉLÉ RÉALITÉ (Lucile Désamory, Gustave Fundi, Glodie Mubikay, 2020), a Congolese reality TV show is supposed to be made in Belgum, while MUEDA, MEMORY AND MASSACRE (Ruy Guerra, 1979) shows the reenactment of a massacre carried out by the Portuguese in 1960. (5.–14.12.) (Stefanie Schulte Strathaus)