Biography
Nathalie Anguezomo Menier Mba Bikoro is a French-Gabonese interdisciplinary artist working with visual arts & live art performance.
With an education in Politics, Philosophy and Media Arts, Bikoro leaves France and the UK to set out her work as an artist to return back to Gabon.
Her 10 year battle with Leukeamia Cancer during childhood in Gabon, the Netherlands and France has influenced the narrative and methods in which she chooses to create her work and this personal struggle to recovery and return back to her family has pushed her visual language as well as setting goals to develop independent creative initiatives in the arts and culture lead by local people.
Her aims and objectives are to incorporate converging arts and sciences into her own practice & research towards developing a Cancer Arts Centre Recovery through creative spaces for interaction for children & adults in Libreville, Lambarene & Bitam (Gabon) by developing educational collaborative community projects lead by local people.
She has worked on many educational interdisciplinary arts projects and collaborations and has taught across Europe and Africa. Her exhibitions have traveled across Africa, South Latin America, South Korea & Europe including African Heritage London UK 2010; New Currencies Museum Johannesburg SA 2010; Contemporary African Art Art|Basel Switzerland 2010-11; DMZ Festival South Korea 2010; Perpendicular Casa i Rua Belo Horizonte Brazil 2011; Dak'art Biennale Senegal 2012.
She is an Associate University Lecturer across Europe and Africa teaching in the Arts, Contemporary Live Art Performance, Film, Creative Writing and Philosophy. She coordinates various arts curatorial projects in London communities as well as in South Africa, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Gabon. She is a creative, art-critic and academic writer for various contemporary arts & philosophy texts both online and published. She is Director of two independent cultural arts initiatives and Research Fellow at University with The Institute of Converging Arts & Sciences Greenwich.
Prolific, passionate and bold, she is now developing long-term independent arts-community initiatives (Artblitzkrieg, Transitstation International, DNA Arts Foundation Gabon, Nexus Arts Hub UK) and works on international projects as consultant for emerging artists & organisations.
She is a lecturer and develops frequent creative workshops in media arts, performance and visual cultures in the UK & abroad. She is currently researching for a PHD covering philosophy, cultural politics and the arts in Africa and networks between Europe (UK, France, Germany), Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Senegal and Gabon.
Visit:
Nathalie Mba Bikoro´s Blog
Contemporary African Arts Creative Consultancy
Creative Africa Network
Contemporary Performance
With an education in Politics, Philosophy and Media Arts, Bikoro leaves France and the UK to set out her work as an artist to return back to Gabon.
Her 10 year battle with Leukeamia Cancer during childhood in Gabon, the Netherlands and France has influenced the narrative and methods in which she chooses to create her work and this personal struggle to recovery and return back to her family has pushed her visual language as well as setting goals to develop independent creative initiatives in the arts and culture lead by local people.
Her aims and objectives are to incorporate converging arts and sciences into her own practice & research towards developing a Cancer Arts Centre Recovery through creative spaces for interaction for children & adults in Libreville, Lambarene & Bitam (Gabon) by developing educational collaborative community projects lead by local people.
She has worked on many educational interdisciplinary arts projects and collaborations and has taught across Europe and Africa. Her exhibitions have traveled across Africa, South Latin America, South Korea & Europe including African Heritage London UK 2010; New Currencies Museum Johannesburg SA 2010; Contemporary African Art Art|Basel Switzerland 2010-11; DMZ Festival South Korea 2010; Perpendicular Casa i Rua Belo Horizonte Brazil 2011; Dak'art Biennale Senegal 2012.
She is an Associate University Lecturer across Europe and Africa teaching in the Arts, Contemporary Live Art Performance, Film, Creative Writing and Philosophy. She coordinates various arts curatorial projects in London communities as well as in South Africa, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Gabon. She is a creative, art-critic and academic writer for various contemporary arts & philosophy texts both online and published. She is Director of two independent cultural arts initiatives and Research Fellow at University with The Institute of Converging Arts & Sciences Greenwich.
Prolific, passionate and bold, she is now developing long-term independent arts-community initiatives (Artblitzkrieg, Transitstation International, DNA Arts Foundation Gabon, Nexus Arts Hub UK) and works on international projects as consultant for emerging artists & organisations.
She is a lecturer and develops frequent creative workshops in media arts, performance and visual cultures in the UK & abroad. She is currently researching for a PHD covering philosophy, cultural politics and the arts in Africa and networks between Europe (UK, France, Germany), Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Senegal and Gabon.
Visit:
Nathalie Mba Bikoro´s Blog
Contemporary African Arts Creative Consultancy
Creative Africa Network
Contemporary Performance
Nathalie Anguezomo Menier Mba Bikoro is an Associate Lecturer (B.A. & M.A.) covering Philosophy, Media Arts & Photography, Visual Arts & Cultures, Post-Colonial Theory, Contemporary Performance Arts, Arts Management, Visual Arts & Cultures, Post-Colonial Theory, Philosophy with African Philosophy and African Political History. Taught institutions include Greenwich University London (Film & documentary production), London South Bank University (Issues in Representation, Media Arts Theory & Technology and Arts Management) in Humanities, Arts & Sciences Department, as well as teaching Contemporary Art History at Richmond Adult College.
She is an independent curator in Contemporary Visual Arts, specialising on 'fractured' narratives in literatures of African Diaspora, Border crossings and the politics of immigrations, Colonisation and the Slave trade economic triangle past and present. She is directing curator at Open The Gate Gallery in London with monthly exhibitions programmes showcasing professional and emerging contemporary artists focusing on transnational dialogues & collaboration between cultures.
She leads international performance arts & film workshops and festivals including Perpendicular Casa e Rua Belo Horizonte Brazil, TEAK Academy Helsinki Finland, Lulea Academy Performance Arts in Norbotten Sweden, KHG Kassel Germany, Focus Gallery Basel Switzerland, Meeting UFO's international touring exhibition of performance and film, Transitstation Live Arts Copenhagen (2010) and Kingston University amongst many others.
She recently published "Identity Nudity The Political Power of Contemporary Live Art Performance in Ato Malinda; The agorical spaces of performativity between the arts and political historycisation" through the Goethe Institut Nairobi Kenya and is completing her PhD in Fractured Historical Black Narratives with reference to Performing the Body in Post-Colonial theories and the development of alternative spaces/communities in politically challenged areas. Future publications (2012) include Alice in Wonderland (with interactive online games & music CD); Performance Art of Africa; The Gift Resistance in Modern Slavery and Myths of the Contemporary Griots.
She is a visual arts and performance artist and has exhibited internationally including Perpendicular Scesc Palladium Belo Horizonte Brazil (2011), African Heritage London (2010) and Museum Africa Johannesburg South Africa (2011), Tate Britain (2009), National Portrait Gallery (2009), A Twist in the Taile SAVVY Contemporary Africa Gallery Berlin Germany (2011), Art|Basel Biennale Focus11 Peter Hermann Galleri, EPAF11 Warsaw Poland (2011), DMZ Festival South Korea, and OKO ONO Cinema and Void Gallery at Prague's TinaB Festival, amongst many others. Public Talks include 'A gaze through the lens of Contemporary African Performance' South London Gallery, 'Libidinal Bodies and the space of the Archaeological'(2011), LAPsody 3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy Helsinki (2011), Greenwich International Post-Graduate Research Conference (2008-2011), amongst many others.
She works as an independent curator, writing editor, art consultant, producer and art director, for national and international events from conferences, festivals, exhibitions, collaborative visual projects, and live art performances platforms. She conducts weekly lectures, independent workshops, seminars, short courses in performance arts in various academic institutions, schools (including adult learning), art festivals, galleries, and other creative organisations.
Future projects include Biennale Documenta 13 Kassel Germany (curator), FLAAC Festival Latinoamericano e Africano de Arte e Cultura "Performance, Body and Politics" Brazil (guest lecturer), Meeting UFO's (curator), and Open The Gate Gallery exhibitions (curator).
Nathalie Anguezomo Menier Mba Bikoro commits to working between the UK and Gabon (West Africa) and often works on diverse international arts-community projects from Latin America, Scandinavia to Africa.
She is an independent curator in Contemporary Visual Arts, specialising on 'fractured' narratives in literatures of African Diaspora, Border crossings and the politics of immigrations, Colonisation and the Slave trade economic triangle past and present. She is directing curator at Open The Gate Gallery in London with monthly exhibitions programmes showcasing professional and emerging contemporary artists focusing on transnational dialogues & collaboration between cultures.
She leads international performance arts & film workshops and festivals including Perpendicular Casa e Rua Belo Horizonte Brazil, TEAK Academy Helsinki Finland, Lulea Academy Performance Arts in Norbotten Sweden, KHG Kassel Germany, Focus Gallery Basel Switzerland, Meeting UFO's international touring exhibition of performance and film, Transitstation Live Arts Copenhagen (2010) and Kingston University amongst many others.
She recently published "Identity Nudity The Political Power of Contemporary Live Art Performance in Ato Malinda; The agorical spaces of performativity between the arts and political historycisation" through the Goethe Institut Nairobi Kenya and is completing her PhD in Fractured Historical Black Narratives with reference to Performing the Body in Post-Colonial theories and the development of alternative spaces/communities in politically challenged areas. Future publications (2012) include Alice in Wonderland (with interactive online games & music CD); Performance Art of Africa; The Gift Resistance in Modern Slavery and Myths of the Contemporary Griots.
She is a visual arts and performance artist and has exhibited internationally including Perpendicular Scesc Palladium Belo Horizonte Brazil (2011), African Heritage London (2010) and Museum Africa Johannesburg South Africa (2011), Tate Britain (2009), National Portrait Gallery (2009), A Twist in the Taile SAVVY Contemporary Africa Gallery Berlin Germany (2011), Art|Basel Biennale Focus11 Peter Hermann Galleri, EPAF11 Warsaw Poland (2011), DMZ Festival South Korea, and OKO ONO Cinema and Void Gallery at Prague's TinaB Festival, amongst many others. Public Talks include 'A gaze through the lens of Contemporary African Performance' South London Gallery, 'Libidinal Bodies and the space of the Archaeological'(2011), LAPsody 3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy Helsinki (2011), Greenwich International Post-Graduate Research Conference (2008-2011), amongst many others.
She works as an independent curator, writing editor, art consultant, producer and art director, for national and international events from conferences, festivals, exhibitions, collaborative visual projects, and live art performances platforms. She conducts weekly lectures, independent workshops, seminars, short courses in performance arts in various academic institutions, schools (including adult learning), art festivals, galleries, and other creative organisations.
Future projects include Biennale Documenta 13 Kassel Germany (curator), FLAAC Festival Latinoamericano e Africano de Arte e Cultura "Performance, Body and Politics" Brazil (guest lecturer), Meeting UFO's (curator), and Open The Gate Gallery exhibitions (curator).
Nathalie Anguezomo Menier Mba Bikoro commits to working between the UK and Gabon (West Africa) and often works on diverse international arts-community projects from Latin America, Scandinavia to Africa.
