Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro:
Exit Pathways

KHM

Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 19 h, Aula
Filzengraben 2, 50676 Köln
Moderation: Prof. donna Kukama
Free admission | Lecture/presentation in English

Exit Pathways: Artistic Interventions on Black Abolitionist Agro-Poetics and Fugitive Planning focuses on modes of resilience, safety, communion and transforming trauma into empowerment. Mba Bikoro introduces artistic interventions at the intersections of law, activism and herbalism, reflecting on 20 years of research practice.
The presentation covers mangrove fugitivities, Black psychology, theft and migration to suggest strategies for collective abolitionist practices. Using plant systems as forensic evidence in criminal court cases for Black migrant workers in refugee camps, to historical justice through somatic corporeal rituals to amplify fugitive strategies from anti-colonial alliances, they highlight the fragilities of solidarities, institutional hospitalities, the environment and somatic impacts on historical memory and navigations of safer fugitive planning.

Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro (Gabon) is a visual artist, writer, somatic body therapist, community cultural worker and curator supporting BiPOC and queer groups using integrative approaches that combines humanistic and abolitionist-inspired methods, de-traumatisation tools, alongside cognitive behavioural therapy and ancestral healing work. Their approach is shaped through deep embodied practices and awareness of racism, discrimination and gender identity. They are artistic director of Nyabinghi Lab, editorial board member of Performing Ethos journal at Intellect Books, writer of AFRIKADAA, freelance curator of international programmes including When The Jackal Leaves The Sun: Decentering Restitution | Pedagogies of Repossession. They have also curated many radio series since 2020 featured on Refuge Worldwide.

Redaktion — Ute Dilger