Nathalie Mba Bikoro
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Lectures & Public Presentations

2012 The Yellow Crossing, Maison d'Hotes Au Fil Du Fleuve, St Louis, Senegal
2012 Contemporary British Art History, Richmond Adult Community College London
2012 Killing Friday: Forbidden Chimeras Between Tradition and Modernity; MindPirates Gallery Berlin in association with Co-Labs7, Germany

2011-12 Issues in Representation & Digital Media Arts Theory & Technology (B.A.), South Bank London University 
2011 Live Art Performances, Community & Social Practice; Fractured Narratives Mythologies & Resistance in African Diaspora, Goldsmiths University
2011 Lulea Performance Art In Norbotten Sweden (B.A. | M.A. | Postgraduate levels)
2010-11 Visual Cultures & Film Documentary Production (B.A.) Greenwich University 
2011 African Performance in the Archaeologist's Body; LAPsody, 3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and 
Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland 
2011 Hegel’s dream of Africa: Breaking the Dogma of Unanimism and Spiritual Antithesis through African Contemporary Art
Greenwich International Postgraduate Research, London UK
2011 Body, Memory, Politics; PAIN Norbotten & Galleri Syster, Sweden
2011 Anthropology & Political Performance; SAVVY Contemporary Berlin
2011  A Gaze Through the Lens of Contemporary African Performance, South London Gallery, UK  
2011 An interview with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
2011 A Gaze Through The Lens of African Performance, South London Gallery Talk presentation and live performance, London

2010 African Live Arts Performance, South London Gallery, UK 
2010 50th Year of Independence DRC Congo, London, UK
2010 Institute of Converging Arts & Sciences, PhD Thesis presentation, UK
2010 Performance & Video, Transitstation, Denmark
2010 TEAK Performing Arts Akademie, Helsinki, Finland 
2010 50th Year of Independence DRC Congo, London, UK
2010 Institute of Converging Arts & Sciences, PhD Thesis presentation, Greenwich University London, UK
2010 Performance & Video, Transitstation, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009 The Issues, In Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics, vol. 2 N.2 & 3 (Contemporary Philosophy & Media Arts
2009 Art workshops, Gabon, Africa
2009 Political Voice & Social intervention as Performance, Wooloo Festival, Powell Opera, Berlin, Germany
2009 Greenwich International Conference, UK
2009 Greenwich international Conference, UK

2008 Trouble Makers / Making Trouble; Interdisciplinary Transgressions, Greenwich Conference, UK
2008 Kunstworkstoff Live Art Jerxheim workshops, Germany

2007 Introduction to Dance & Live Art Performance, Kingston University, UK

2006 Body & Space, Transitstation, Edinburgh, UK
2006 Performance & Space, Pontevedra Facultad De Bella Artes, Galicia, Spain


Papers include:

2005 Motions of Existence and the Human Condition: evaluating the Aesthetic Illusions of Bruce Nauman and Paul Mc Carthey
2005 How To Kill 10 Silences Poetry
2005 The StasiDuck Island Newspaper Imaginary Project
2006 ‘Intensity, Space & Body; Measuring Relations, Power & Rhythm’ 
2006 A review on Fine Arts Postgraduate Study in the UK
2006 Performing the Space of the Panoptic
2006 OPERA a Performance in V Acts
2007 In what ways does Heidegger’s ‘event of appropriation’ differ from that of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of event? Does Lyotard’s concept of ‘economy’ offer a more substantial way to encounter and re-mould this ‘event’?
2007 Space Production of Intensity
2007 The Mourning of Heidegger in Irigaray’s Forgetting of Air
2007 In what way is Kierkeggard’s conception of the trembling the practical application of Benjamin’s conception of translation? How is the trembling part of Derrida’s translation ‘the gift of death’?
2007 A literary review on Art Spiegelman’s Maus A Survivor’s Tale
2008 ‘The Race: The Return of the Architect. Measuring the Body in Performance and Archaeology.’ 
2008 'Cultural Interventions, Poesis and Praxis; Time & Panopticon' 
2008 The Race to Intensity: the Archaeologist in the Space of the Theatre
2008 The Undecidable Moment: the incomplete recursive definition of Event, Place & Consistency part III
2008 Return to Melitus: Performance Art in Tri Bywyd’s welsh productions
2008 A critical exposition and appreciation of the work of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison, introducing the use of space in Panopticon design and the place of the body of the condemned with references to the way the work provides insight into the production and interpretation of art
2008 The Production of Spatial Relations: a case-study of the Prestige oil spillage disaster in the Spanish Galician coasts and practice-based collection of sounds
2009 'The Undecidable Moment; the incomplete recursive definition of Event, Place and Consistency Part III' 
2009 ‘Historical relations and time-space archipelagoisation; the challenges of post-modern art in West Coast Africa’ 
2009 Thinking about Godel: Event & Intensity
2009 Art & Politic: the Pathos Formula

2010 ‘Archiving Memory, Radical Art & the ‘Post’-Postcolonial Gaze’ 
2010 ‘The Event of Art in the Rifts of Identity: Political Voices & The Challenges of Post-Modern Arts in Equatorial Africa’ 
2010 'The spaces of Live Art Performance and Womens' Rights in African Cultures' 
2011 Slavery, Creolisation & Freedom in Performance Art of Africa
2011 The Death of Anthropology in Performance Art and Archaeology




Workshops | Lecturing

2010-2011 B.A. Visiting Lecturer in Film Visual Studies & Philosophy
2011 PAIN Norbotten Sweden
2011 LAPsody Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland
2011 Numbi, Open The Gate Black Culture Cafe London UK
2010 Greenwich University
2010 TEAK Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland
2009 DNA Arts Gabon, Bitam
2006 Performance & Space, Pontevedra Facultad De Bella Artes, Galicia, Spain


Awards

2012 Fondation Blachere, Dak´ Art Biennale, Senegal
2012 Prix du Soleil, Dak´art Biennale, Senegal
2012 Best Artist of 2011 with PAIN Performance in NSD Norbotten, Lulea, Sweden
2011 Best Performance Artist of the Year 2010-11 Presentaatio National Finnish Awards 
2010 PhD Research Fellowship Award, Greenwich University 
2006 Stanley Picker Gallery Research Travel Research Grant Scholarship Award, Italy & Sicily
2002 Best Art Prize for Mental Health Awareness, Windsor, Berkshire


Residencies:

2013 Soleil d´Afrique, Bamako, Mali
2012 Fondation Blachere, France
2012 Au Fil Du Fleuve Maison d´Hotes, Saint Louis; Senegal
2011 Numbi Arts Resident Artist London 
2011 Perpendicular Casa e Rua, Favela Santa Lucia, Bello Horizonte, Brazil 
2011 Performance Art In Norbotten, Sweden 
2010 Savvy Contemporary African Arts, Berlin, Germany
2007 Kunstwirkstoff, Jerxheim, Germany
2006 Bella Artes de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain 


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2012 RTV Live Senegal May Dak'Art Biennale Edition
2011 Open The Gate (radio)
2011 EXTRA Lulea Sweden Newspaper
2010 Kuntsi Museum Vaasa Finland, Swedish radio



Other key recent activities:

2010 Latin American Culture Week: The Practice of Freedom (www.consuladoecuador.org.uk) 
2010 Puki Pedagogical Procession of Latin American Artists, Regent's Park London
2010 Gifts of the Spirit Ron Athey Automatic Writing Installation/Performance Queen Mary’s University AirProject led by Dominic Johnson November 2010
2010 Live Art Development Agency Performing Idea Creative Spaces with Ong Keng Sen and Tellervo Kalleinin October 2010. Documentary performance, narrative, migration and issues of cultural difference after Gertrude Stein
2010 African Heritage, 3 Bloomsbury Gallery Covent Garden, London
2010 Transitsation International Festival of Live performance Arts, Copenhagen Art Academy, Denmark
2010 Focus10 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
2010 Portrait performance at AirSupply Resistance Gallery London 2010
2010 FarLab, Jerwood Space, Contemporary Dance
2010 Contemporary Art Museum Kunsti Vaasa; Gallery Augusta (Suomenlinna); HIAP, Helsinki; Art Contact & Las-Bas

2011 Writing Editor & Research for Scarf Journal Numbi|KuduArts Publishing in London
2011 A Gaze Through The Lens of African Performance, South London Gallery Talk presentation and live performance, London
2011 I am The New Black publication
2011 City, Ports & Pirates Numbi event showcasing African Arts and Literature at Rich Mix London
2011 LAPsody, 3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and Performance, TEAK Academy, Helsinki, Finland
2011 VestandPage MayDay Workshop, TEAK Academy, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Alice In Wonderland African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora Exhibition, Oxo Tower Wharf Bargehouse Street London
2011 Middle Passage Performance at Studio 1.1 Gallery, XTC, London
2011 Conference for Emerging Arts Organisers in Europe Resonance FM part of Goldsmiths London in collaboration with Artist Led Initiative Support Network ALISN EAO Conference on Resonance FM and on Radio Resonance FM November 2011 Listen to interview here
2011 Meeting U.F.O’s | Light & Shadow of Unknown Foreign Objects in New Performance & Film World Tour exhibition and screening of performance and film curated by Nathalie Mba Bikoro and Kisito Assangni January 2012 – December 2013.
2011-2012 South Bank London University Associate Lecturer in Digital Media Arts, Photography & Philosophy, Arts Management & Curatorial practice
2011 Photographer and Web Designer for Hotel Olako Omboue Gabon 2011-12
2011 Web Designer for Petroleum Consulting Limited 2011 
2011 Focus11 Art Basel International Fair, Switzerland
2011 Perpendicular Casa e Rua Residency, Favela Santa Lucia, Belo Horizonte Brazil
2011 "NonIdentity" performance with Wagner Campos Rossi at Szesc Palladium, Bello Horizonte Brazil
2011 "A Twist in the Ta(i)le" solo exhibition with Iris Musolf at SAVVY Contemporary Gallery, Neukoln Berlin
2011 Perforamance Art In Norbotten Residency, Sweden
2011 LAPsody 3rd International Conference for International Live Art Studies, TEAK Academy, Helsinki Finland
2011 "Alice In Wonderland" group exhibition at FOCUS11 Contemporary Art Africa, and performances with Ntando Cele, Basel Art International Fair Switzerland
2011 Art and Music Jam Fusion at Open The Gate London
2011 Causality, ArtEvict London curated by Kiki Taira
2011 Institute of Converging Arts & Sciences Research Fellow Greenwich University
New Development Research Teaching & Learning, Faculty of Arts & Human Sciences
2011 "Trinity" performance with Wagner Campos Rossi and Johannes Blomqvist at Epipiderme Live Art Perforamnce Festival Lisbon, Portugal
2011 BFI Film Screening, Greenwich University
2011 Numbi Arts Resident Artist London
2011 Open The Gate London Freelance Art Exhibition Curator
2011 Ed Cross Fine Arts 
2011 IN IDA Live Stream Performance, 4th Performance Biennale DEFORMES, Santiago, Chile
2011 Tina B Contemporary Art Biennale, Prague
2011 XTC Gallery China and Studio 1.1 Gallery London Performance Works curated by Kisito Assangi
2011 EPAF Warsaw "The Uncomfortable Truth" Live Art Performance Festival, Poland

2012 Assistant Administrator in Research Ethics Committee Bureau Greenwich University
2012 Sessional Tutor in Contemporary Art History; Richmond Adult Community College London
2012 Committee Board Member for South London Gallery's South by South Artist in Residence Programme Africa 
2012 AfiriPerfoma Board Member, African Performance Art International
2012 "(B)rushing (B)orders; hommage to Mandela" performance & lecture at  Co-Labs Edition 7 Berlin & Mind Pirates presented by SAVVY Contemporary; Germany 
2012 "Proximity" Solent Southampton University curated by Lynn Charlotte Lu
2012 SFIP Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy curated by K. Assangni; Angelhom International Video Art Festival; Sweden
2012 "The Playground" Dak'Art Biennale 12; Biennale IN Dakar, Senegal (Winner of Fondation Blachere and Prix Du Soleil Mali Awards)
2012 "The Yellow Crossing; The Peoples´Waltz" exhibition, Dak´Art OFF Biennale, St Louis, Senegal curated by Ed Cross + artist residency in Au Fil Du Fleuve Maison d´Hotes, Saint Louis; Senegal
2012 Nexus Arts Hub
2012 "We Cannot Do It Without The Rose" Savvy Contemporary, Positioning Osmotic Impulses, Neukoln Former Prison, Berlin
2012 New performance, workshop and conference at Performance corpo politica (Performance Body and Politics) FLAAC 2012
The Research Group Corpos Informáticos, FLAAC Festival Latinoamericano e Africano de Arte e Cultura (Latin-american and African Art and Culture Festival), Brazil
2012 Biennale DEFORMES, Gallery & Museum of Contemporary Art MAC Valdivia; Chile (South America)
2012 Curating July Performance Show at Performance Space London
2012 2nd Mediterranean Biennale, Performance Festival of Sachnin, Israel
2012 Fondation Blachere residency Provence, France
2012 Residency and exhibition Prix Du Soleil Bamako, Mali
2012 Memetics In Contemporary Performance, SAVVY Contemporary, curated by Jareh Das 
2012 Alice In Wonderland solo exhibition at Tiwani African Contemporary Gallery London
2012 Solo exhibition, Oxford University
2012 Festival of Live Art Performance curated by Bill Kouleany, with performance workshop program, Congo, Brazzaville

2013 Lumbumbashi Biennale, Rencontres Picha residency, workshops, talks and exhibtion, RDCongo




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