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The project developed for the Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, was based on the proposal to build a functional copy of the exhibition gallery West Africa/Ivory Coast, originally designed in the 1970s, and to place it in a central area of the museum, on ground floor level. This exhibition architecture and space was to be offered to a number of contemporary visual artists, designers, and filmmakers from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Sujets d’echange

1995

Bild 301

    Dedicated to experimental writing and linguistics, the publication compiles selected txt messages mixing letters, or characters, and emojis…

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Ear, Mind, Eye, Pad

2019

A unique set of discursively related publications, which focus on transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by digital communication. These shifts are part of a wider cultural process…

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Fog Friend Font: Ways of Doing Multilingual Sense

2019

Three audio-guides, made available to the visitors at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, in relation to the Oceanian, West-African, and Chinese segments of the collections on display, partly in the languages corresponding with the collections: Indonesian, Ewe and Chinese.

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Die Gespräche

1994

Puppet characters from different national versions of the children’s TV program Sesame Street have been materialised as human size costumes. The hybrid group appears in a theatre-like setting, against a background of a painted city panorama, activating the space of the exhibition, which constitutes the work.

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Kami, Khokha, Bert and Ernie (expanding)

2004, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2019

A poster announces an event, for which guests from Cameroon, India, and Lebanon were invited to orally translate excerpts from Courierspeak, a phrase-book for couriers of museum objects.

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Courierspeak

1993

A poster announces an event, for which guests from different professional backgrounds are invited to a public debate in relation to a complete set of the international editions of ELLE magazine. Franchised around the world, the issue of ELLE on display appears in its today 32 different regional editions, all published in the same month.

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That We Know / Ce qu’on sait / Was man weiss

1994 - ongoing