Draft:Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape

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  • Comment: This is just a list of his works, essentially a CV, please rewrite in narrative form. Cerebellum (talk) 16:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Pretty sure that "He works in Paris and Johannesburg." does not need 10 references to support it. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:11, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (known as Mo Laudi) is a South African multi-disciplinary artist,[1][2] curator,[3][4] writer,[5] composer,[6] music producer and DJ,[7] based between Paris and Johannesburg.[8] He is a research fellow at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation (AOI), Stellenbosch University, since 2021.[9]

His artworks have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2019 in the exhibition devoted to Ernest Mancoba,[10] at the Grand Palais in Paris in collaboration with Sammy Baloji in 2021,[11] at the Dakar Biennale in 2022,[12] at the Château d'Oiron and the Jeanne d'Arc Chapel in Thouars (2023).[13] His first solo exhibition, Dance of the Ancestors, took place at The Over[14] in Barcelona in 2023.[15]

Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux,[16] the exhibition he curated in 2022 at the MAMC+ in Saint Etienne, focused on his research on a borderless world from a Pan-African perspective.

As early as 2000, Mo Laudi created South African parties in London, then in Paris, specialised in electronic music such as South African House Music, Kwaito, Deep House and Afro House, as well as Amapiano, Gqom and Shangaan electro. As a composer and DJ, he notably created official remixes with Calypso Rose (Calypso Queen, 2017), Flavia Coehlo (Por Cima, 2017), Elida Almeida and Flavia Coehlo (Sou Free, 2018), Philippe Cohen Solal (AfroBolero, 2019), as well as EPs such as Avant Garde Club Music (2015), Paris Afro House Club (2017) and Jozi Acid (2017). He has also collaborated with Jerome Sydenham, Myd, Naive New Beaters, Angélique Kidjo, Lazy Flow, Smadj, The Very Best,[17] Radioclit, Weapons. He has been invited to perform at festivals such as Solidays in 2014 and 2018, Jazz sous les pommiers (2018), Montreux Jazz Festival (2023 and 2024)[18] as well as in museums and art centres around the world like Fondation Cartier in Paris (2015),[19] Kadist Foundation in Paris (2021),[20] Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (2023)[21] and Artspace in Sydney (2024).[22]

References

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  1. ^ Balona de Oliveira, Ana (11 January 2023). "On and Off 'Ĩ NDAFFA #': An Extended Review of the 14th Dakar Biennale". Third Text. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. ^ Fidler, Mark (6 November 2020). "Small things worth preserving – LagosPhoto20's Home Museum". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Onabolu, Tobi (16 September 2022). "Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux. Mo Laudi's take on Pan-Africanism". contemporary and. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  4. ^ Gibbon, Declan (6 July 2021). "Mo Laudi's Salon Globalisto gives SA artists space to flourish in Paris". wanted. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  5. ^ Bopape, Ntshepe Tsekere; Quoi, Alexandre (2024). Globalisto – A Philosophy in Flux – Acts of an Imbizo. les presses du réel and MAMC+. ISBN 978-2-9550186-3-7. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  6. ^ Obolo, Pascale (December 2021). "Electronic Protest Song As Resistance Through the Creation of Sound". Herri no6. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  7. ^ Cerf, Arthur (2 November 2015). "Le Mzansi Sound ou les musiques électro sud-africaines à la conquête du monde". Society Magazine (in French). Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  8. ^ Sosibo, Kwanele (14 February 2020). "Remapping African musics". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Mo Laudi". African Open Institute. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  10. ^ Naidoo, Riason (10 October 2019). "Mancoba's genius is at long last acknowledged". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Sammy Baloji invite Mo Laudi, artiste, spécialiste de musique afro-électronique", Grand Palais, 28 January 2021.
  12. ^ Onabolu, Tobi (30 May 2022). "The Dakar Biennale returns, Energized by conversations about African epistemologies and colonial legacies". artnet. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  13. ^ "Quand l'art rassemble : Matrimoine, une exposition au château d'Oiron et à la Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc de Thouars". Ministère de la culture (in French). 23 June 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  14. ^ "The Over". Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  15. ^ Luciani, Gabriel (28 November 2022). "Mo Laudi, revisitando el relato visual de la diáspora Africana". exibart (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Globalisto A Philosophy in Flux exhibition announcement". Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne. June 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  17. ^ Fitzmaurice, Larry (15 September 2010). "Video: The Very Best: 'Julia'". Pitchfork. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  18. ^ "Workshop by MJAF: Afrosonica – Paysages sonores with Mo Laudi & Madeleine Leclair (Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève)". Montreux Art Festival. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  19. ^ "Pan African Space Station, radio éphémère". Fondation Cartier You Tube channel. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  20. ^ "Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape, Mobilis Alkebulan". Kadist. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  21. ^ "The awakening of the Sound Archives #21: Mo Laudi's record playing". MEG Geneva. 5 October 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  22. ^ "Mo Laudi (Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape)". Artspace. Retrieved 13 September 2024.