- artist:AKAR Collective
- event type:Concert
- date:24 Oct 2024
- city/area:Namur
- venue:la Nef
- country:Belgium
- style(s):Afro, Techno
- event posted by:UBU
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AKAR is a musical and visual artistic creation in a collaboration with the following artists: Shama Bongo (Singer, Projects producer & manager), Sarah Carlier (Singer-songwriter, Musician, Music Producer), Rokia Bamba (DJ, Sound designer), BenRichard (VJ, DJ, Sound designer).
Each artist of AKAR has a particular and very personal link to its origins but also has a link with Africa and with Music. AKAR is made up of french, belgian, white, black people... One man and three women. AKAR is Europe, AKAR is Africa, AKAR is generation X and Y.
The name AKAR includes all this humanity and therefore has several meanings in several languages and even on several continents... It means ROOT in Sudanese, Malay & Indonesian, WILLINGNESS in Hungarian, FLOW in Turkish, and DISTURB, AGITATE & MAKE TABOO in Hebrew.
AKAR is currently in residence at the belgian Africa Museum. In this context, the collective is conducting research in sound, video and photo archives. The idea is to play, transform, assemble, tell stories and use them as fragments in the show.