the the . c umbrella ringer, i'm a visual at cure h. s. square here in narrow be the cop, so of my country. can you 9, robi, with an estimated population of over 5000000 people. as an energetic please, it is also one of africa's fastest growing cities in just over a century narrow because comes from from a modest, really depot to vibrant metropolis. an economic and cultural have been east africa, the away from the busy streets, the city,

both the highland kerry and the savannah that houses our famous wildlife part of the stuff contrast to those natural wonders is another one of the largest informal settlements in sometime after campaign to almost half a 1000000 people in the late 18 hundreds canyon was known as british east africa. and the traces of this colonial pass out over nearby canyon became independent from britain in 1963 these days naturally has a cutting edge of contemporary art seems that's it. side by side with more traditional creative legacy. the all of this mix scenario be an exciting co, so destination that reflects

a reached pass by country has an ancient history of k to with the indian ocean culture. and so we have multi cultural nation with competing viewpoints. the and now i'm going to show you some amazing narrow b r sense. let's go coming up in this episode of the w's artsy africa. we meet more bush commodities, a multi media art is to create masks, to review the masks imposed by society. then we meet cyrus can bureau, who makes it visual magic from phone to materials we choose when to go takes us into a studio to reveal have powerful paintings,

kenya's strong mothers who resisted oppression of the inspiration for sylvia cam. these work and we'll see how social commentary dries peterson come, why these drawings? finally, blue wrap it up with a ride in a visually unique set of wheels. the my 1st stop on my dw artsy africa journey is to the housing, a state of blue blue that was established in narrow b in the 1970s. the it is the home of the brush to our collective mara bush. kimani is a young artist towards creating new masks, to challenge the masks that society imposes on us

the fun. so could see that being the lady behind the masks chimed in, is a very important theme in your work. yeah, in my work, i use mosques to unmask like i like the idea of using the most to actually invoke as such a stage of mine or say to be so i use the say use stride plans. you know, that slow is. and with that, i try to show that, you know, death is actually, it's the foundation of life itself. you know, because like, when you see the leaves fold down. yes, been dead leaves. but in a few months that soil and grows

the, there's a sense of found objects that is a part of your what? yeah, the why i like to because i could easily manipulated with my hands with the tools. and that was i started that before. i couldn't afford to the and i like the mesh because of the sense of into connectedness and how that thing is actually separate from another thing no matter how it looks like it is just finding things in republishing them, giving them like another life. yeah. is what i enjoy. i live at the edge of the know be national parks for 4 years, being and such as space gave me so many aspects of what it means to be truly in nature. the

always in my admirers work and want to give it a go myself, but don't think i can manage something so complex. so maybe this is the easiest way to begin to. oh is to discuss this and just for now just give it a brief one. as then i'm going to been, then i'm going to the next, i would dw archie, africa. jenny leads us to the east of narrow b to the area called category. this is where we find intriguing workshop all cyrus compared to the he creates his artworks out of the guided objects. he makes his own kinds of unique re deals and

sound systems, bicycles and exactly i where i grew up in it will be on a slum quarter to quarter was on the west side of the lane, the dumpster. and so yeah, i get things signed by the task allows law using wastes a lot we using why as a loved using met total. i love using plastic when i see these i don't see tests for me. i see an amazing how it works for you to mix something like these. you must think of the books. the service is also inspired by 10 years roads. when motorcycles have

replaced the old black bicycles that but once popular here, the nickname, black member, refers to the black member snake that is commonly found in stop sign africa. so i decided to get the old block member then reduce it and make them small, at least if i call them the end of last month. but i participated in the morning and so i'm not saying states coordinates, although i own is how name case with kids. that uh, we've got a crush from back a southern country. so you can get a navy, a with beads from india metal from switzerland. they won't even be coordinators, whether it's an african chinese, a general or your opinion, or is that of travel mall even?

i think more than 40 countries, big stations with museums they have like 10 museums have my work. the most recent is the match museum, which is a big temp. because i'm not, i'm not, especially from africa. cyrus made it in the art world without any artistic training in schools. because we don't know what's in school. so we don't have that at college. what's the problem of associating creativity? we've was raving. tell tony my mama, she need to be careful with me, cause i'm a bit we had despite the initial skepticism of his neighbors, cyrus is artistic. courier continues to grow from strength to strength. and next he will be exhibiting at least 4 countries. i look forward to hearing more about his

future travels. we'll talk next time. meaning we move to the old oh, jenny now takes us to work. i find wanting because when the, for me central meeting a we have to a list of a physical bodies the she catches our senior and the your work concentrates and looks at body stripping. always so many labs we get to see the inside that the flush, the bone, the muscle. how does your process lead to that?

this body of watch came from a as soon as i was looking, i think closer to the room. and so for me, the room for me to comes in reference to a new beginning transition sweet bus. i'm really interested about how you develop this x ray quality to your work. i think for me that uh, a tribute to brush walks hitting this body of work. i've been using acrylics because they're alone. it's kind of less. there's so much built up of color towards you actually seeing here. it's very liquid. you end up putting the right to feel almost like really glad, but i'm not looking to kind of create a block that looks like realism. yeah. on my lap is kind of that because of how as a woman i operate within a very male dominated background. 6 the

. 5 6 6 beatrice disagrees with interpretations of, of paintings as booting or pessimistic. for example, like this particular painting in the background is guessing blues. and then you see that a phone is imagine, because that is what the room is. it's like this that's pace. that is devoid of life, but life is coming from. it's the idea of hope. and then it's a kind of utopia kind of thinking, given the times that we're living in. but that's what i was the walk to be about. it's an active regeneration. the renewal of new beginning is the i, the features feeling that i've stepped into a powerful and intimate female world. moving into the savannah. i would dw, actually, africa journey takes us to the outskirts of the narrow, be national park. here we're going to meet another possible female key to

this is celia camby. she's a multi media performance artist. her work is challenging and that i've been doing performance work for a long time. now since 2002, 3 silvia has created a masked performance advertise called customer choice pass by a customer that is a trix. the character me that i created to intervene inside of space is that a hard to hear about or hard to talk about. and it started with colonial space. yes . which had to do with some mark museum and this space and the mark museum. it's electra room, actually that's being used to teach and it was the space where as number, if he was told to embrace, classification was 1st told, wow, so what are these images? they basically stills from the sketch performance that i did inside of this lecture room. ok, and i was playing around with customer as a body form and gestures movement became like intuitive and that they're now part

of the, the customer's character. okay. are cheeky, very tricks to raise playful, but then you're also never quite sure what they're going to do next. and this mosque is inspired by a condom us, which is part of their collection. ok along with being inspired by muscles from the mcclintock culture in the market museum collection. so is customer that is inspired by a german childrens public coxa, who's also called customer. and this chick stuff pop that has its origin. in the 18th century, the narrow beach sylvia performs costello and setting them into videos and images from painful moments in our recent canyon past the . so when you talk about possible injecting themselves into spaces and stories

that are hard to tell me, we have 2 stories that have been very hard to tell from our country. yep. and that is the 1992 my those protests. yeah. and also right next to it, and that's park is in the aisle house. yeah. and the history of the aisle house you house is an administrative building in narrow be completed in 1983. the building was commissioned by the elite president, daniel ara point. the house is situated right next to the property which makes this peace. unique is that it's basement, was especially designed to house structure chambers. these images taken by the human rights commission show some of the surrender through as in rich political dissidents, went to change the 1992 matters,

gathered to protest this sons being detained in your house. the mother's protest inspired c. we had to create an artwork featuring customer in the performance that i do, customer that comes to your house and the purpose breaks your house and is twisting and possible to fix this deposit and then cost with the changes and i come memory some others process also by stripping out of customer or the background for these changes from your house and come split into the protest. this pipe and i strip and watch the oak across from the customers. playground is in remembrance of this protest and to honor these mothers . this act of mothers stripping is a very powerful protest it's, it's actually when the police walked away. yes. and it's actually when the funds were released all but one that's really powerful work with capital and how you've

in such a them into all of that. thank you. for giving us this wonderful story about trustworthy . and i really appreciate it. once i appreciate about syria can be is what is how we to flex kenya's struggles with it's past the shows. i carried off our perspective on the complex identities that kenyans are embracing. together with carry to don honda, i created a show called found for attention. i would love to show you mine of my 1st exhibitions. found footage found footage looks as 2 photographers, one canyon, one iranian german, on the phone footage show featured the work of matthew say, who documented after a uranium communities to for, to pass the,

the found footage exhibition also profiled the work of narrow before congress that make wins the guy who captures coastal canyon communities. the by featuring these 2 photographers. this exhibition explore questions around the identities of africans in indian ocean communities. in this expedition and found footage i, we looked at also getting a cable footage. and this also is set up so that people interact, one of the goals of being a curative for me is how does a public engage with a work? how do they live and leave the space engaged, enlightened and with new visions. another exhibition i'd love to tell you about is $27.00 and was brought in as a cure a to, to personalize the discussion around. not only gay and lesbian human rights,

but the rights of freedom in our country. section 27 of the kind of constitution speaks of the rights to equal protection before the law. and with this exhibition explored how this applies to the l g b t to i plus community who are criminalized in kind of the next big show was know my excise which showcased 6 artist working with virtual reality experiences. the x r experience and all my but everything together for me as a curator how i wanted to engage with the public deeply over different types of technologies. more important to me. no my was experimentation so that you have it. i've introduced to several of my favorite children. how about you come and join me for my act. moving west. our next stop is

a much loved place scenario. be the go down community art center. and now i'm going to see to said come, why the studio? he's one of our foremost contemporary artists in nearby. i love these work because they provocatively ask questions about the politics of our data. peterson's work deals with ideas of society, humanity, and community. through his work, he examines the idea of policed and militarized forms of control. and another reason to love for you to say, hey, enables a lot of young artists in the space, the hi. hi, how are you? hi, good, good. but like i said, we'll see you take us through this wonderful world of yours. all right,

thank you very much. peterson's media, primarily drawing and printing making the, you know, i'm always into all of your work. so i just want to do to talk a little bit more about the studies that you have here, just to get us into your process and how you use the materials and how you choose them. so the human form is one of the principal subjects a while crease very, almost like sing defiance, post as of this time in human form is that aspect of human post so that he's highly qualified. so, you know, we, we have, i think, you know, we communicate, we've subscribed sutton pulse, toes become and demonte goes much more than just what you're looking for. the human both. so he's quoted, yes, you know, him. i think with these, i know that i'm actually next talk to him. just looking at uh, you know, the,

the human pass on that particular shape. phone. yeah. okay. i love that. what class? yeah. during the 1st todd look down of the cuban 19 pandemic in 2020, in a ruby peterson observed men standing in line with the children as a cute for financial support. and the notice of regimented weight in which they had to stand as they complied with authority. when you talk about the fact of social structures of control and human bodies has cop to the, to 10. 0 wow. wow, wow, wow, wow. now those peterson's drawings about people struggling with a burden of life. this particular position by about 2 months for me to find the sales team is actually going to get off the transition. i'm moving out of a place of great trauma,

major difficulty. and i'm also drawn to a chuckle, sketch that peterson has done based on a life drawing session chuckle as a medium which have locked in for many, many hours and bust out those kind of gives gravitate to the walk. i asked me to send it to show me how to make a mano type of payment type amount of prints on a type one or well, why don't they do that by create that means using that, bradshaw cutting it to the ink. mm hm. and then would i need to look like that? i hope i can do this. i agree with them, but it was like the license, i don't know. yeah, yes. but i mean literally the mentor, a vanity pin number of

oh wow. so sign it outside beaches in studio, a piece of art on wheels is pulling up. this is a different kind of black mamba, the this i'm attached to a mini bus useful public transport was design and painted by an artist called mozy . he also goes by the name of the lithium how did you come up with all the different pieces to put on this? are certainly mumble actually, i say that number is me. but in general is the way my brain works as in everything

which is class and inside the i know 19. so my legal genius of like i am the genius . i am the auction junior. so can you. so this is what is cooking my laboratory. this is the mad campus winner, montgomery, and so by the number line is, so this is his lab for the cabinet. i mean, you came in. uh huh. i bundled it, it was the driver control and use the methods onto it. saves lives and on time if i know if you're a fan of and types of culture, you'll find yourself and doesn't talk to that. so going, so would you like to experience who is open to that would be great. and this brings us to the end of the w. r. c. africa in nairobi, the vibrant east african capital was a rich and johnny. it has been for me and i hope the same for you. so quite harry, 5 by the,

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