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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

Xanten

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.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

Artist

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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