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sakasaka

The artists Adjoa Armah and Sel Kofiga work together artistically under the name sakasaka, which refers to the creative heritage of Adjoa Armah's parents and the Ghanaian Akan word for centipede. 

Adjoa Armah, through her exploration of archives and the photographic image, installations, writing, and site-specific pedagogical experiments, investigates the narratives carried within the body and the silences of memory. Sel Kofiga uses performance, textiles, film and image-making to probe the agency of non-living objects and the spatial experiences of racialized subjects.

Together, their research-based practice, interrogates how grief, survival, and resilience are metabolised across generations and inscribed onto place, proposing new ways to engage with fragmented histories, rituals, and the materials and spaces that bind them. Armah and Kofiga have been practising as artists since 2018 and 2014 respectively, with their independent work being shown and published internationally.

Projects

Dorsten

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour. Chroncler in Dorsten is Anna Haifisch.

Dorsten von Anna Haifisch

Illustration by Anna Haifisch: Dorsten street scene featuring the "Dorsten City Markt" sign, a Tipico store, and a handcart of Clubheim Angel u. Sportverein Dorsten e.V. in stylized colors.

© Anna Haifisch

© Anna Haifisch

„Vorbei am Baumarkt und dem geschlossenen Wettbüro, nach zwei schaurigen Eisenbahnbrücken, stand da plötzlich dieser kleine Kohlenwagen mit dem Namen des Angelsportvereins als liebevolle Erinnerung an alte Zeiten. Statt Erz und Kohle lugten ein paar erfrorene Blümchen hervor. Mit dem kleinen Wägelchen wäre ich gern durch Dorsten gerollt, musste aber leider meine kalten Füße benutzen.“ - Anna Haifisch

Artist

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Portrait of artist Anna Haifisch, known for her comics and illustrations, wearing a pink beanie and a smiley sweater in front of a blue wall.

© Matthew James Wilson

Anna Haifisch

Anna Haifisch writes and draws comics, works as an illustrator for national and international media and designs print series, posters and design products.

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