GAME of TONES performance by Tito Valery (CMR)

GAMES OF TONES by Tito Valery (Cameroon ’82) is a poetry performance series, engaging with the multicultural neighbourhood Presikhaaf Arnhem, homeground of Motel Spatie, where the artist tells stories inspired from observations and encounters with diverse voices, in a space where identity remains an ubiquitous notion across cities that host generations of foreign Dutch citizens.

The lyrical journey takes flight in a conversational , rhythmic tempo, while allowing the audience to intervene, by either interrupting the flow at intervals, a form that allows for an inclusive exchange of voices within the very idea of how to “welcome unwanted guests” in the present European immigrant context.

!!! Event will not take place at Spatie but at WALTER books !!!

Program July 10 2019
Door open: 7.30 p.m.
Start of program: 8 p.m.
Interview Mirjam Westen (curator contemporary art Museum Arnhem) with Tito Valery

Performance Tito Valery + guests

9 p.m. drinks / end of the program

Tito Valery is a poet, activist, DJ, sound performer and spoken word artist from Cameroon. He is artist in residence at Spatie for three months May-July 2019. Tito Valéry’s work can be described as energetic, impersonal and authentic. His work is essentially sonic, literary and performative in a real of spoken word.

Motel Spatie invited for this residency Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the new curator of the upcoming Sonsbeek 2020 to recommend an artist for our regular 2019 residency program. Tito was also on the Documenta 14(2017) radio program, curated by curator at large Bonaventure. Motel Spatie residencies are curated by Claudia Schouten, founding director Motel Spatie.

Prior to the perfomance an artist talk will take place with Tito Valery by Mirjam Westen (Curator of contemporary art Museum Arnhem).

Venue: WALTER books, Looierstraat 43 6811AV Arnhem (5 min. walk from Central Station). Free entrance.

The residency program of Motel Spatie is kindly supported by gemeente Arnhem en Provincie Gelderland.

www.motelspatie.nl