Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: 18/09/1981

Place of Birth: Ho, Volta, Ghana

Nationality: Ghanaian

 

Other External Links

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  • https://www.youtube.com/@crazinistartist6524/videos

Education

  • 2015-2017: MFA (abD) -Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • 2010-2014: BFA-(Painting)- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • 2003-2006: Cert ‘A’ Teacher Education, Amedzofe E.P. Teacher Training College

Profession

  • 2018 - Date: Artistic Director and Curator (perfocraZe International Artists Residency [pIAR], Kumasi, Ghana)
  • 2012 - Date: Multidisciplinary Artists, crazinisT artisT studiO, Kumasi, Ghana
  • 2006 - 2010 : Professional Teacher, Ghana Education Service, Ho-Takla, Ghana

Curatorial Works

2022

  • BODIES AT WORK, Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi

2021

  • or·ga·nis·mus, Alliance Francaise, Kumasi
  • Witnesses Memories, Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
  • Beyond The Graves, Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
  • X:7 Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi

2020

  • reinKarnatorX, Kumasi
  • Forgiven Spaces, Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi 

2019

  • “Pidgin Imaginarium”, Chale Wote Art Festival, Accra
  • “ADeakyeabia” Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, Alliance Francaise Accra, pIAR August 2019
  • “Ignite”  Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR July, 2019
  • “Tomorrow” Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, Alliance Francaise Accra, pIAR June 2019
  • ‘noW or neveR’ Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR May 2019
  • ‘Open House Performance’ Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR April 2019
  • ‘so URgent 000’ Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR Feb 2019

2018

  • Prism of Freedom, The One Minute Film, Amsterdam, Netherland.

EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2023

  • Sacred Space, Sacred Bodies, (Collaboration with SU-EN) Uppsala Sweden

2022

  • "Before Dawn'  VFDalston, London UK
  • Kall for Healing, Birmingham UK
  • Ata-Ku, Documenta 15, kasel Germany
  • Reading and moderation, Gorki Theatre, Berlin Germany 
  • the KOVENANT II, Berlin, Germany
  • INTI-mate HealinG, Berlin Germany
  • the KOVENANT, Berlin, Germany
  • Kall for Healing, Bern Switzerland
  • INTI-mate HealinG II, Bern Switzerland 
  • My body, My Colour, Bern Switzerland
  • The Biggest Monument of Love, Bern switzerland

2021

  • Un(EARth)ing w-E-story, inventory Platform, UK
  • gray-healings-grey-bodies, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
  • Holier-Than-Thou,  Kumasi, public performance 
  • 2020
  • Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE,  Forecast Platform, Berlin
  • uNTAMED reALITIES, Online performance, Out of Site Chicago 
  • Black is rED, Forecast_Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE
  • I KAn’t brEAThe, Forecast_Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE
  • Oga LANDLORD…, Intervention, Kumasi, Ghana
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2019 

  • RItual reALITies, Slought, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • WouNded wouNds IV, Centro Niemeyer, Aviles Spain
  • aʋa_Si_mi, Oviedo University, Spain
  • dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBiikus III, Black Art Festival,  Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Strikethrough III, Black Art Festival,  Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • tO liVE, we dIED, Camargo Foundation, Cassis France
  • Table of Negotiation collaboration with John Herman, Chale Wote, Accra
  • Borderless Ocean, Collaboration with Gloria Godinez, Chale Wote, Accra
  • Strikethrough, FIT Rio 2019, Rio Preto, Brazil
  • agbanWu, FIT Rio 2019, Rio Preto, Brazil
  • dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBiikus, FIT Rio 2019, Rio Preto, Brazil
  • Open source Performance, interval 10_PAErche Essen, Germany
  • DONOTSAVEME, interval 10_PAErche  Essen, Germany
  • Intimate death, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
  • Lamentation. Kumasi Ghana
  • nkwabiaahia _allLIVESmatter, Kumasi, Ghana
  • WouNded wouNds III, online performance, Translucent,  crazinisT artisT studiO, 
  • WouNded wouNds II, White Out Project NRW-Forum Dusseldorf 
  • tranSFiguration, perfocraZe International Artists Residency

2018

  • “Voyage” Mindelact Festival, Cape Verde
  • “Strikethrough”, steakhouse, London UK
  • Performance Project and workshop, Cologne, Germany (In progress)
  • “ouTcasT” The Rising’ ]Performance Space[ Folkestone, UK 
  • “The oatH_b”  Munich, Germany
  • ‘Untitled’ Berlin, Germany
  • froZen series LagosPhotos Festival
  • ‘the oatH’ Performance Art Festival Oerliker Park Zurich, 
  • “agbaWnu” at Chalewote Art Festival Accra Gh. 
  • ‘Lying awake’  Watermill Centre, New York, USA
  • Passing Through-Act of Radical Empathy, Gallery 1957, Accra Ghana
  • forgotten truth, participating in “Past Tells” a group show at Alliance Francaise Kumasi Ghana, curated by Michael Babanawo
  • dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBikus, Oduom, Kumasi Ghana
  • wouNded-wouNd, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

 2017 

  • How The Stars Were Made, Legon Botanical Garden, Accra, Ghana (A collaborative project (AfriQueer) with Drama for Life AFRICA Project from South Africa.)
  • nativeimmiGrant III – efiewurasuame, ICAF2017 Iwaya, Lagos Nigeria
  • inthemiddleofNowhere, Ruffi Haus Munich Germany
  • The specter[less] specters - find the X, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • nativeimmiGrant II, Villa Waldberta, Munich Germany
  • iNisheahim, Villa Waldberta, Munich Germany
  • stillDeath, Break Through #19 Munich Germany
  • Bond[H2o], Duo performance by crazinisT artisT [Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi] & John Herman CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival 2017 'WATA MATA' James Fort Prison, Accra, Ghana
  • nativeimmiGrant, Performance at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) 17th Triennial Symposium 2017
  • illiGalbody II, Black Star International Art Festival, Accra
  • nazaKU, Accra, (Orderly Disorderly, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi)
  • IlleGalbody, KNUST, Kumasi
  • lettertotheChuRch I, KNUST Catholic Church, Kumasi
  • lettertotheChuRch II, Roman Hill Catholic Church, Kumasi
  • Rituals of Becoming, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana

2016

  •  rE·gen·er·at[e] Bone 19 Performance Art Festival, Bern
  • chocolate kiss, Duo performance with Jazmin Taco, Schlachthaus, Bern Switzerland 
  •  myBodyisaPrison... KNUST, Kumasi Ghana
  •  ‘frozen’ Cornfields in Accra’, (Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi
  •  X in REd, ‘if you love me’... exhibition, Kumasi, Ghana
  •  ‘eAt me...’, performance with voluntary participating Students from the Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
  •  reThinking-naZa, collaborative performance with the Security Department of KNUST, Ghana

2013-2015: https://www.crazinistartist.com/curriculum-vitae/

 

Residencies and workshops

  • 2022 TURN2, ZKUBERLIN germany
  • 2022, Pro Helvetia, Bern Switzerland
  • 2019 Camargo Foundation, Visa of Creation Residency Cassis France.
  • 2019 (June) Facilitator,  "Anyienenye..." Performance Art workshop Figurentheater-Kolleg, Bochum, Germany
  • 2019 (June) VR Workshop, the Alliance Francaise Accra
  • 2019 (May) Body noise, crazinisT artisT studiO, Kumasi
  • 2018 (October)-The Rising ]Performance Space[  Folkestone UK
  • 2018 (July-August)- Watermills Summer Program, New York, USA  
  • 2017 (October-December)- Beyond Rituals, Villa Walberta, Munich, Germany 
  • 2015 (July-August)- TERRITOIRE DE CRÉATION 5ieme édition, Residency in Lome, Togo
  • 2014 - Inkfluent’s Chale Wote (Because the Ancestors Live), Poetry Workshop, Accra, Ghana

Grants/Sponsorship/Awards

  • 2022 TURN2, ZKUBERLIN germany
  • 2022, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland
  • 2022, Henrike Grohs Art Award
  • Forecast Platform Mentorship Award, Germany
  • 2019: Institut Francais, Camargo Foundation, France
  • 2018: Art Moves Africa, Travel Grant, Mindelact, Cape Verde
  • 2018: Prince Claus Fund, for Participating in Lost & Found performance Event, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL
  • 2017: Goethe Institute Travel Fund: to attend a five-week Artist Residency, Munich, Germany

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