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Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (known as Mo Laudi.[1][2]) is a South African multi-disciplinary artist, composer, DJ[3], music producer and curator.[4][5] Bopape's artistic practice includes sound, painting, collage, sculpture, installations, video, and performance art, often used as mediums for socio-political discourse.[6][7][8]. He works in Paris and Johannesburg.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Selected artworks edit
Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape's artworks include:
- Black Swan Records, 2021–2023, photographs and video with 3mn sonic composition. Featuring Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.
- Daughters of the Dust. Sons of the Soil, 2023, sound installation, 10mn. Commissioned by the Château d'Oiron.
- The Rest Paintings series, first shown in 2022 at Dakar Biennale, Senegal.[19]
- Helfritz' Wunderkammer (The Ethnographic Gaze and the History of Cabinets of Curiosities), 2022, immersive sound and video installation comprising: 10 channel TV monitors, CCTV camera, scaffolding stand, 5 channel surround sound, 10 min sonic composition. Commission related to the archives of Hans Helfritz.
- Rest-itution (Renaming a collection). Who owns the past owns the future, 2022, Multimedia installation: borrowing a 19th century figurine of a hunter from Benin (probably from the Kingdom of Dahomey or the city-state of Porto-Novo) from the MAMC+ collection, ceramic (Prototype to Protest II), sound composition.
- Deconstruction of the Self, 2021, sound installation, 15mn32s.
- Mobilis Alkebulan, 2021, sound and video performance, playlist: poetry, speeches, digital archives, field recordings, analogue material. Presented at Kadist Foundation, Paris
- The Club as a Space for Radical Hospitality, 2021, 14 photographs, 2 videos, commissioned for Nouvelles Distances, @jeudepaumelab #6, commissioned by the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
- In Conversation with Gerard Sekoto, 2021, sound installation, 10 mn, Notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle church, Paris.
- Lumumba's Groove, 2021, sound installation: wood, glass, metal, plants, paint, found objects, sound composition, 10mn.
- Native Code, 2021, installation in collaboration with Becky Beh for La Clairière d'Eza Boto, exhibition as tribute to Cameroonian writer and activist Mongo Beti.
- Congo Square in D# Minor, 2021, sound composition, 9mn32s, and playlist. Commissioned in the context of Sammy Baloji's Johari Brass Band project at the Grand Palais, Paris.[20]
- What did Chris Hani say to John Cage?, 2021, sound installation, 13mn38s. Created for the exhibition Décalage in collaboration with Charlotte Moth at art3, Valence.
- Movement (Mayibuye), 2020, sound installation, 15mn46s.
- #RIPMoLaudi, 2020, digital collage, colour, sound, 1 mn.
- 我爱黑人, I Love Black People, 2020, collaboration with Zhuo Qi, ceramic dinner set made during a residence at the Fondation Martell, Cognac.
- Afro-Bolero, 2020, digital collage, 3 min, sound, created to accompany the track mixed by Philippe Cohen-Solal featuring Angélique Kidjo and Mo Laudi.
- Prototype To Protest, 2020-ongoing, ceramic sculpture series.
- Motho ke motho ka batho (A tribute to Mancoba), 2019, sound composition, 10mn10s.
Exhibitions edit
2023
- Dance of the Ancestors, A Question of Process, Dance of the Ancestors, A Question of the Unknown, Dance of the Ancestors, A Question of…, curated by The Over, Barcelona.
- Matrimoine, with Laurent Marie Joubert, Joyce Ndimanche and Maria Motaung, Château d'Oiron and Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc in Thouars.
- Sequins, Shimmer, Rotterdam.
- HeritageConcept, Basel.
- Globalisto. Fragments of Community, 31 Project, Paris.
2022
- Globalisto, A Philosophy in Flux, MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.
- UNDISCIPLINED, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum-Cultures of the world, Koln. Curated by Sandrine Colard.
- Ĩ Ndaffa#/Forger/Out of Fire, Dakar Biennale. Curated by Malick Ndiaye.[21][22]
2021
- Oasis (du consentement), Parliament, Paris.
- Diaspora at Home, KADIST, Paris. Curated by Sophie Potelon and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha.
- Nouvelles distances @jeudepaumelab #6.
- In Conversation with Gerard Sekoto, Notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle church, Paris.
- La Clairière d'Eza Boto, Jardin des plantes, Rouen, curated by Yves Chatap, part of Africa 2020 season.
- Décalage, collaboration with Charlotte Moth, art3, Valence.
2020
- Casablanca Biennale, Morocco, curated by Christine Eyene (online project with new commission for a sound installation in relation to the photographer George Hallett).
- OORtreders, sound art festival, Belgium, invited by Christine Eyene.
- Home Museum, LagosPhoto20, Nigeria. Developed by Azu Nwagbogu and Dr. Clémentine Deliss, with Dr. Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, Asya Yaghmurian.[23]
- Group show, Apartment, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Future_Tense, Montreal, Canada, curated by Intervals.
2019
- Ernest Mancoba. I Shall Dance in a Different Society, Centre Pompidou, Paris, curated by Alicia Knock.[24]
Sonic lectures edit
2023
- Sonic intimacies, Metro 54, Amsterdam.
- Afropea Cultural Centre, Lausanne.
- Afrosonica. Paysages Sonores, presented by Mo Laudi & Madeleine Leclair (Musée Ethnographique de Genève), Montreux Jazz Festival.[25]
- Keynote DJ lecture, Tools for Demodernizing Training Intensive, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam.
2021
- Mobilis Alkebulan, sonic + video performance: poetry, speeches, digital archives, field recordings, analog material.
- Eusebius church, Sonsbeek 20-24, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Invited by Amal Al Haag.
2016
- A sonic journey outlining histories of creative appropriations, Fondation Cartier, Paris. Invited by Chimurenga.
Curatorial projects edit
2023
- Globalisto. Fragments of Community, 31 Project, Paris. With works by Bianca Baldi, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Mónica de Miranda, Inès Di Folco, Kendell Geers, Binelde Hyrcan, Hélène Jayet, Maurice Mboa, Sabelo Mlangeni, Obi Okigbo, Gerard Sekoto, a Songye mask maker, Divine Southgate* Smith, Raquel van Haver.
- Sabelo Mlangeni. Ngiyobona Phambili, Reid Hall, Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris, Co-curated with the artist.
2022
- Globalisto, A Philosophy in Flux, MAMC+ Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne Métropole, France. With works by Jamika Ajalon, Sammy Baloji, Raphaël Barontini, Marie Aimée Fattouche, Sam Gilliam, Porky Hefer, Lubaina Himid, Arthur Jafa, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Samson Kambalu, Moshekwa Langa, Elsa M'Bala, Myriam Mihindou, Wilfried Nakeu, Otobong Nkanga, Josèfa Ntjam, Sara Sadik, Dread Scott, Gerard Sekoto.
2021
- Salon Globalisto, Bonne Espérance Gallery, Paris. With works by Dineo Seshee Bopape, Mbali Dhlamini, Kendell Geers, George Hallett, Rodan Kane Hart, Porky Hefer, Thonton Kabeya, Khehla Chepape Makgato, Lulama Wolf Mlambo, Chris Saunders, Gerard Sekoto, Penny Siopis, Claudia Tennant, Sammy Valhalla, Nontsikelelo Veleko.
Discography edit
Mo Laudi has released the following singles, EPs, albums, remixes:
Singles edit
- 2021 Shine Again, Bon Entendeur Records, Compilation 2, Performed by: Mo Laudi, Kalala Soul, Clotilde Floret, Becky Beh. Text: Ntshepe Bopape. Composers: Ntshepe Bopape, Caetano Malta, Robin Ngi. Produced by Ntshepe Bopape.
- 2019 Hometown Girl, Jerome Sydenham (Dr J) & Fatima Njai, feat. Mo Laudi.
- 2018 I'm Winnie. Mix inspired by Yvonne Chaka Chaka's I'm Winning (my dear love). Released on Yuksek's Partyfine Records.
- 2015 Afrophobia, Lowup Records.
EPs edit
- 2020 Afro Bolero, Philippe Cohen-Solal feat. Angélique Kidjo and Mo Laudi, Ya Basta! Records. Including Batuk Remix, Poté Remix, Daniel Haaskman Remix, Extended.
- 2019 Dance Inside of You. Including: Dance Inside of You (feat. Rocky), Tigerstyle, Dance Inside of You (feat. Rocky) [Dominowe Remix], Dance Inside of You (feat. Rocky)[Dub]. Videoclip directed by Bruno Gabriel Martin. Feat. Ines (Rocky). Dancers: Felicia Dotse, Dylan Posseme. Choreographer: Rainier. Kimonos: Globalisto Collection by Wowo.
- 2016 Speak Up, Gazelle and DJ Invizable (feat. Mo Laudi). Including: Avant Garde Club Music Remix and Moroka Remix.
- 2015 Avant Garde Club Music. Including: 1. Habibi Love, 2. Shaka, 3. Barcelona.
Albums edit
- 2017 Paris Afro House Club. Including: 1. The Rebirth of Ubuntu, 2. O Tio (feat. Cheila Simone), 3. Submerge (feat. FM Laeti), 4. Paris Afro House Club (feat. DJ Oji & Woody Brown, 5. O Tio (feat. Cheila Simone) [Daniel Haaksman Remix], 6. O Tio (feat. Cheila Simone) [Mo Laudi's Deep Afro Remix].
- 2017 Jozi Acid. Including: 1. Intro, 2. Por Cima (feat. Flavia Coelho), videoclip directed by Arnaud Giacomini, produced by SPOA. 3. Delialah (feat. Michelle Blades), 4. Keep on Dreaming (feat. Tallisker), 5. Interlude, 6. Homeless, 7. Let Your Spirit Shine (feat. ALA.NI), 8. Jozi Acid.[26]
Remixes edit
- 2020 Kaniki – Maya Kamaty (Mo Laudi Remix), Musiques Des Sphères, vinyl and digital.
- 2018 Sometimes I Feel – Ornette (Mo Laudi Remix), vinyl and digital.
- 2018 Sou Free – Flavia Coelho and Elida Almeida (Mo Laudi Remix), Lusafrica, Sony Africa.
- 2018 Modibore – Hawa Boussim (Mo Laudi Remix), Sony.
- 2018 Un Montón de Estrellas – Polo Montañez (Mo Laudi Remix and Radio Edit), Lusafrica, Sony Africa.
- 2017 No Madame – Calypso Rose (Mo Laudi Remix). Released on Calypso Rose is Calypso Queen.
- 2016 Akabongi – Daniel Haaskman, (Mo Laudi Remix), featuring Spoek Mathambo + Los Bulldozer, Man Recordings.
- 2016 Fool You Landed – Mumford and Sons (Mo Laudi Remix).
- 2013 Unbreakable – Yadi, The Blow (Mo Laudi Mix), Warner Bros Records.
Vocalist, Poet, Rapper, MC, Hype man features edit
- 2022 Tallisker, Petrol (feat. Mo Laudi, Sébastien Forrester), CONTREPOINTS, YUMYUM Records.
- 2018 DJ Spoko x Mo Laudi, Hijack.
- 2015 Roby Howler & Boogaloo, Sunshine (feat. Mo Laudi) EP.
- 2014 Mo Laudi x Lazy Flow, Revolution.
- 2013 Naive New Beaters, Off The Clock (feat. Mo Laudi & Rich Aucoin).
- 2012 Smadj Q, Fuck the DJ. Including: Block Party, written by Don Camillo, Mo Laudi, Smadj; Flying Love, written by Mo Laudi, Mohamed Bouamar, Smadj; Spring Revolution Song, written by Mo Laudi, Mohamed Bouamar, Smadj.
- 2012 Lazy Flow, Paris, Paris, Paris (feat. Mo Laudi).
- 2012 Mambo Fever, Mo Laudi x Myd x Lazy Flow x Radioclit.
- 2006–2010 The Very Best. Malawian-Swedish electronic Afro-Pop band. Members: Johan Hugo Karlberg, Esau Mwamwaya, Etienne Tron: 2012 MTMTMK (album), 2011 Super Mom (mixtape), 2009 Warm Heart of Africa (album), 2008 Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit Are the Very Best (mixtape). Videoclip for Julia by Arthur Jafa[27]
- 2002–2006 Weapons. Also Known As Weapons of Mass Belief, W.O.M.B. UK Punk band members: Justin Griffiths (vocals), Georgia Griffiths (vocals), Mo-laudi Bopape (vocals), Blair Macann (guitar), Pete Cherry (bass), Tasha Baylis (drums).
Commissions and collaborative projects edit
- 2022 Soundtrack for a film by Sammy Baloji, Of the Moon and Velvet, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
- 2022 Euridice Zaituna Kala: Sea(E)scapes DNA don't (n)ever ask, Le salon H, Paris, France, sonic composition in response to the exhibition
- 2021 Congo Square in D# Minor, sound commission and playlist to accompany Sammy Baloji's Johari – Brass Band, Grand Palais, Paris
- 2019 Sound works for an installation by Julien Creuzet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris[28][29]
- 2019 Soundtrack for a film by Charlotte Moth, Still Life in a White Cube, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles, Greater Madrid, Spain
- 2016 The Napkin Playlist for Dineo Seshee Bopape, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / Berlin Biennale, Germany, 2018[30][31][32]
External links edit
References edit
- ^ Olivier Herviaux, "Art Contemporain : à la galerie Kadist les migrations intra-africaines sont à l'honneur", Le Monde, 9 January 2022, https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2022/01/09/art-contemporain-a-la-galerie-kadist-les-migrations-intra-africaines-sont-a-l-honneur_6108754_3212.html
- ^ "MO LAUDI: Interview with a prolific South African artist!", PAM The Pan African Music Magazine, July 21, 2016; https://pan-african-music.com/en/mo-laudi-interview-with-a-prolific-south-african-artist/
- ^ Clémence Meunier, "De Paris à Johannesbourg Mo Laudi invente la Paris Afro House Club", Tsugi, 3 May 2017, https://www.tsugi.fr/de-paris-a-johannesbourg-mo-laudi-invente-la-paris-afro-house-club/
- ^ 2022 Néo Géo programme by Bintou Simporé devoted to Saint Etienne Globalisto exhibition, Radio Nova https://www.nova.fr/news/neo-geo-special-depuis-le-musee-dart-moderne-et-contemporain-de-saint-etienne-pour-le-lancement-de-lexposition-globalisto-une-philosophie-en-mouvement-194099-05-07-2022/
- ^ Declan Gibbon, "South African artists given space to flourish in Paris", Sowetan Live, 12 July 2021. https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/s-mag/2021-07-12-south-african-artists-given-space-to-flourish-in-paris/
- ^ Liam Casey, "That drum lining ain't hiding is it?", Flaunt magazine, 27 September 2019, https://www.flaunt.com/content/mo-laudi
- ^ Mo Laudi interviewed by James Creedon, France 24 (TV news channel), 27 June 2022, https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20220627-death-of-teenagers-at-cape-town-tavern-leave-parents-distraught-and-confused
- ^ Pascale Obolo, "Electronic Protest Song As Resistance Through the Creation of Sound", Herri, no6, December 2021. https://herri.org.za/6/pascale-obolo/
- ^ Kwanele Sosibo, "Remapping African Musics", Mail & Guardian, 14 February 2020 https://mg.co.za/article/2020-02-14-remapping-african-musics/
- ^ Mo Laudi interviewed by Richelle Harrison Plesse, France 24, 4 September 2017, https://www.france24.com/en/20170904-encore-music-mo-laudi-dj-south-africa-jozi-acid-tori-amos-jack-johnson
- ^ Arte Mix ø Trabendo, Paris, live TV footage of performance, September 2021, https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/106025-006-A/mo-laudi-a-arte-mix-o-trabendo/)
- ^ Arthur Cerf, Society Magazine online, 2 November 2015, https://www.society-magazine.fr/le-mzansi-sound-ou-les-musiques-electro-sud-africaines-a-la-conquete-du-monde/
- ^ "Kampire w/ Mo Laudi 12th July 2022".
- ^ Marchelle Abrabams, IOL, 25 September 2019, https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/music/local/from-polokwane-to-paris-mo-laudi-is-living-his-globalisto-dream-33532628
- ^ Danielle O'Neill, "South African DJ Mo Laudi launches Globalisto record label", 2013, https://www.okayafrica.com/mo-laudi-globalisto-south-african-dj-record-label/
- ^ Lindiwe Mngxitma, "A new philosophy with Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux, ft Gerard Sekoto, Arthur Jafa and more", interview, BubbleGumClub, October 2022. https://bubblegumclub.co.za/art/a-new-philosophy-with-globalisto-a-philosophy-in-flux-ft-gerard-sekoto-arthur-jafa-and-more/
- ^ Le1Hebdo, Globalisto. Une Philosophie en mouvement special edition, 24 June 2022, https://le1hebdo.fr/journal/numero-special/402-1/globalisto-une-philosophie-du-mouvement.html
- ^ Tobi Onabolu, "Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux. Mo Laudi's take on Pan-Africanism", Contemporary And, 16 September 2022. https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/mo-laudis-take-on-pan-africanism/
- ^ Ana Balona de Oliveira, "On and Off 'Ĩ NDAFFA #': An Extended Review of the 14th Dakar Biennale", Third Text, 11 January 2023, http://thirdtext.org/balonadeoliveira-dakar
- ^ Sammy Baloji invite Mo Laudi, artiste, spécialiste de musique afro-électronique, 21 January 2020, https://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/article/sammy-baloji-invite-mo-laudi-artiste-specialiste-de-musique-afro-electronique
- ^ Henri Robert, "Dakar Biennial – One must admit", Happening, 2 June 2022, https://www.happening.media/category/magazine/en/article/629850303146602f54e816e7/dakar-biennial-one-must-admit
- ^ Tobi Onabolu, "The Dakar Biennale returns, Energized by conversations about African epistemologies and colonial legacies", artnet, 30 May 2022. https://news.artnet.com/opinion/the-dakar-biennale-review-2022-2122774
- ^ Mark Fidler, The Guardian, 6 November 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/06/small-things-worth-preserving-lagosphoto20s-home-museum
- ^ Riason Naidoo, "Mancoba's genius is at long last acknowledged" Mail & Guardian, 10 October 2019, https://mg.co.za/article/2019-10-10-00-mancobas-genius-is-at-long-lastacknowledged
- ^ "Mo Laudi".
- ^ "Mo Laudi, le pionnier de l'Afro House à Paris", Little Africa, 31 August 2017, https://littleafrica.fr/en/mo-laudi-pionner-de-lafro-house-a-paris/
- ^ Larry Fitzpatrick, Pichfork, 15 September 2010, https://pitchfork.com/news/40070-video-the-very-best-julia/
- ^ https://artmap.com/palaisdetokyo/exhibition/julien-creuzet-2019
- ^ "File Note 138: Julien Creuzet - Camden Art Centre".
- ^ Courtney Willis Blair, "Artist Dineo Seshee Bopape is an unstoppable force", Cultured, 30 August 2017, https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2017/08/30/dineo-seshee-bopape
- ^ "10th Berlin Biennale: 'This is a Space of Generative Violence, There Are No Utopias Here'". 8 June 2018.
- ^ "Mo Laudi".