Curators’ Series 8: All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm

Curated by Christine Eyene

at DRAF, Camden

4 June–31 July 2015
Roberts Institute of Art

All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm is the eighth edition of the Curators’ Series, a platform to support independent curators, duos and organisations to develop and deliver thematic exhibitions with newly commissioned works. Christine Eyene curated this edition.

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The exhibition presents Eyene’s original research into rhythmic sources in performative, material and immaterial productions within African traditional and contemporary cultures, taking Bikutsi as its starting point. Bikutsi is a fast-paced percussive genre using balafons (African xylophones) that emerged in Cameroon in the 1940s. All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm traces the integration of African rhythm into artistic practices through the 20th century to the present day.

With Larry Achiampong, Younes Baba-Ali, Julien Bayle, John Cage, Ayoka Chenzira, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Jon Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Evan Ifekoya, Zak Ové, Michel Paysant, Anna Raimondo, Robin Rhode, David Shrigley, William Titley.

On 13 June 2015 there will be a curator’s tour by Christine Eyene and a conversation between Eyene and artist and curator Barby Asante on the relation between music, cultural heritage and urban cultures. On 11 July 2015, there will be an Evening of Live Music by artists Larry Achiampong, Julien Bayle and Evan Ifekoya