On Saturday, March 22, Collectif Faire-Part, Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja, and Mawena Yehouessi present an afternoon and evening of discussion and film in conjunction with their exhibition Joy Boy, a tribute to Julius Eastman. Through a selection of their works, the artists reflect on the collaborative processes underpinning the project, offering a lens into their practices that critically engage with colonial legacies, diasporic memory, and speculative futures. Moving fluidly between documentary, performance, and experimental modes of storytelling, the programme situates their work within a broader discourse on hybridity and resistance.

14:00-14:45: Introduction by the artists to Joy Boy, a Tribute to Julius Eastman (cinema)

15:30: Film programme (part 1)

Moonshine – Zaire Space Program | Act I  (3’, 2021) by Nizar Saleh Mohamed, Pierre Kwenders & Hervé “Coltan” Kalongo

In Zaïre Space Program | Act I, the first part of a hybrid short film/documentary part from global collective Moonshine, Congolese director Nizar Saleh Mohamed captures life in Kinshasa, as Congolese artist collective FARATA walk through the city wearing recycled costumes that act as a contemporary take on Congolese tradition.

Faire-part (60’, 2019)   

by Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers, Nizar Saleh & Rob Jacobs

On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineastes make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story. What should it look like? Who should be in it? For whom is it made?  Faire-part is the search of four filmmakers for a way to portray the city. Through filming artistic performances in public space, they paint a provocative picture of Kinshasa and its relations with the rest of the world. 

 17:00 Kitchen Stories  

18:00 Film programme (part 2)
Alberta’s Room (18’, 2022)
by Victoire Karera Kampire

Alberta’s Room is a journey into the dreams and nightmares of Alberta Gay. The film looks back at a pop icon’s tragic fate, exploring a female perspective on a tragedy that has been described as a man’s business. Alberta’s Room is an experimental film about absence and grief, straddling the border between documentary and fiction. 

Sol in the Dark (52’, 2022)

by Mawena Yehouessi & others  

Sol in the Dark is a cinematographic and multimedia collage project by Mawena Yehouessi, whose ambition is to generate new contexts of co-creation as synonyms of alternative modes of coexistence. From script writing to filming, post-production and distribution, the film is an invitation to over fifty artists, researchers, students, and amateurs to retrace altogether—in a poetic and speculative way—the Myth of “Lascar.”  

The term Lascar is said to come from Persian, meaning “army.” It was notably used during the 19th century to designate South East Asian native soldiers enrolled by the European colonial forces at sea. In the 1990s in France, Lascar has become a contemptuous qualifier, referring to 2nd and 3rd generation French BIPOC kids from the suburbs—from their daily struggles to their knowledge-making. As such, Lascar appears as both the epicene symbol and symptom of ghosted heredities as much as a fictitious role-model to youth standing on the edges of artistic, academic, media-related, and state-related institutional spaces. The film triggers fugitive modes of narration, representation, and co(n)generation in a post-internet world, and incites some of the viewers to reclaim its collage methodology and tell their own (Afrofuturist) stories—both in content and in form. 

Practical info

On the occasion of our first birthday, the exhibitions will be free on 22 March.Tickets are needed per film programme (part 1 at 15:30 and part 2 at 18:00).

Kitchen Stories meals are paid at the till in Lokaal Dendy.

13:00: Exhibitions open (Joy Boy untill 15:30, Prologue and Info-Angel until 18:00)
14:00: Introduction by the artists to Joy Boy, a Tribute to Julius Eastman (cinema)
15:30: Filmprogramme (part 1)
17:00: Kitchen Stories
18:00: Filmprogramme (part 2)
20:00: The end