Ka TOTO, freestyler la carte: Wanny S-King and Morgane Dujmovic

EHESS @ Camargo 2023

Ka TOTO, to freestyle the map" was born from the encounter between artist Wanny S-King and researcher Morgane Dujmovic. Together, they question the experience of childhood in exile. Observing the dehumanization of young African people by utilitarian policies, they will manipulate computer waste, recycled and transformed into an emblematic character of this lost childhood: Ka TOTO. To animate this character along his trajectory, they will explore the intersection between Afro dance, musical improvisation and sensitive cartography. Ka TOTO is place of its own, a space generated among themselves and with the audience to recreate the movement that constantly animates migratory plans, to project the map out of the two-dimensional plane: to freestyle it.

 

  • Originally from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Wanny S-King lives between Congo and Italy. Wanny began his musical career in 2005. His songs "Wale Wale" and "Son excellence", which criticize Congo's democratic illusion and political clientelism, are heard throughout the Great Lakes region. After this first success with his Congolese public, Wanny was obliged to leave the country for a few weeks. He also produced the song "Liberté", in support of human rights activists imprisoned for no reason in the DRC, and in particular those from LUCHA. he initiated the "Shusha Ma Flow" project ("Bring out the flow" in Swahili), with children living on the streets of Goma, offering them a space to express their talents through hip-hop sessions.
  • Morgane Dujmovic is a Geographer and Political Scientist at CNRS (PACTE, Grenoble & TELEMME, Aix-Marseille). She previously carried out a post-doctorate at EHESS (LAP, Paris). Her work on borders and migration combines cartographic and artistic practice such as music freestyle and circus acrobatic lifts. She leads the project ‘La CartoMobile’ which interrogates the concrete conditions of participatory research with exiles. Her experimental work questions what movement brings to scientific method on sensitive fieldworks: French borders, the Balkan and the Central Mediterranean. She is also a member of Institut Convergences Migration and various associations in the field of migrations, notably Migreurop and Anafé.