Presentation of the Video Workshop

For some, La Sape is a style; for others it’s a religion. In any case, it is about dressing in extravagantly smart apparel. The sapeur’s elegant appearance and expensive clothing stand in stark contrast to his real personal circumstances. La Sape was founded as a protest movement in 1960s Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, and still emanates to many parts of the world today. In the workshop, Leonel Cassule and Bath Kanza share their knowledge about sapology with a bundle of style and attitude. As an experiment and a public art intervention, a choreography and outfits are developed in combination to shoot a Sape-style music video.
Acting as a creative production office for the project is the Tomorrow Club Kiosk. The kiosk is the project space of the Transnational Ensemble Labsa (Labor für sensorische Annehmlichkeiten, laboratory for sensory
amenities) – here ideas are forged and plays and other art actions created. People from migrant backgrounds, neighbours from the local community, professional artists, and young adults collaborate, addressing social issues,
aspirations and ideas. The kiosk constitutes an intercultural transfer point for know-how and ›learning how‹, a platform for participation and coming together as well as a stage for art and culture. The kiosk focuses
on a non-hierarchical exchange between people of different origins in combination with good hospitality. (BS)
www.labsa.de

The Peter Behrens School of Arts (PBSA), the design faculty at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, launched its Paradise Park project in 2017. The project features an outside broadcast (OB) truck with video and projection technology that collects information, involves citizens and stages media events. Under the direction of film-maker Britta Wandaogo, the Paradise Park OB truck is used in this 3-day workshop on the laboratory’s kiosk for sensory amenities.
http://paradise-park.de

Project manager: Betty Schiel
Video workshop: Britta Wandaogo
Sape workshop: Leonel Cassule and Bath Kanza

Organized by: Transnationales Ensemble Labsa, Hochschule Düsseldorf, Peter Behrens School of Arts/Faculty of Design, Paradise Park

Funded by: Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund