Yacouba Magassouba got the idea for the play "La Fête au Village” upon seeing the Malinese puppets’ photo's from the KOLK 17 collection on his computer screen in February. The project team of "Who's Talking?" suggested an artistic exchange with the puppets to him....
Neon lights off, spotlights on! – The archive as a performance and filming location
The KOLK 17 collection depot is well hidden on the south-eastern outskirts of Lübeck. This is where KOLK 17's collection is kept. For over two years, this has been my central workplace where I research, document and conduct research. Always in close proximity to...
Shasha Li reports from Chaozhou on her work for “Who’s Talking?”
Exhibition preparations are always exciting and the last few weeks before the opening are the most intense and beautiful phase of the work - the pieces arrive, are positioned, everything starts to take shape. And now, fast forward to the middle of 2021 - how does this...
Jessica Nupen
Jessica Nupen is a dancer, choreographer and director based in Germany. Born in Johannesburg to anti- apartheid activist parents, Nupen’s work is heavily inspired by her South African background and she has been named one of the top 100 most influential...
Kick-off “Who’s Talking?” – About waking up the puppets
Can a theatre puppet exist without puppet theatre, i.e. entirely without drama and animation? Before I came to KOLK 17, I probably would have answered "yes" to this question. Because - as I then thought - it is turned from a theatre subject into an object which one...
Yacouba Magassouba
Yacouba Magassouba (born 1981 in Mali) is a director, puppeteer and event technician. Hewas introduced to and trained in the art of puppetry by his grandfather in 1995 and hisuncle, the puppeteer Yaya Coulibaly with the troupe Sogolon from 2000 to 2012. His work has...
Momo Ekissi
Eugène Momo Ekissi is a play-wright, director, actor, puppeteer, storyteller and African musician.He comes from Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), West Africa. After graduating in law, he devoted himself to the study of modern literature as well as theatrestudies. Momo...
Shasha Li
Shasha Li, director, also works as a contemporary puppeteer. She graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2011.She received the award for "The Best Performance" twice from the 2nd and 4th Golden Lion National Puppet Art Festival in 2008 and 2012 respectively....
Irina Demina
Irina Demina is a choreographer and dance artist, based in Berlin. Irina made her dance education in Moscow and Hamburg, graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University (Faculty of Philology) and received Master degree in Choreography at Hochschulübergreifendes...
Çağlar Yiğitoğulları
Caglar Yigitogullari was born in Ankara / Turkey in 1977. After studying and graduating from the Acting school, he has been to Australia where he studied dance for two more years. In 2003 he went back to Turkey and started working for Istanbul City Theater where he...
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