Raphaël Christian ETONGO                                    

Performance Artist                

Born : 26 September 1972, Yaoundé

 

 

Formation

Performances

Lectures performances

Installations



 

            
F O R M A T I O N / S T A G E S

          
Dance , painting, theater  1988-1994

 

Workshop Thupelo Prince Albert South Africa 2014

Theatre : international internship theatrical improvisation ( Lecacheux Patrice , France ) Yaoundé in July 2013

theater : international internship theater ( Sidiki Bakaba , Cote d' Iv RETIC 2013. )

Dance: Riki von falken (RFA) Goethe Institut Kamerun , Abok i Ngoma 2012

Scenography ( Jenny Mezile , Haiti ) Corps é Geste 2010
Experimental scenes 2010

Magic (Luc Parson ) Yaounde French Cultural Centre in 2009

Staging ( Were- Were Liking ) 2009

Media Art Action ( Micky Kwella , FRG) Goethe Institut Kamerun 2000

 

            
P E R F O R M A N C E S


After Tears / The Burden of Memory / Goethe Institut Kamerun / National Museum Cameroon /November 2019


"TOTEM" Musée des Cinq Continents / Spielart Festival / Munich / Germany / November 2019

 

Rites of Purification for a better world / Ringlokschuppen / Mulheim an der Ruhr / Germany /  June - September 2019 

 

Tanzkongress / Hellerau / Dresden , Germany 2019

 

La nuit Blanche / Institut français / Cotonou ,Bénin 2018

 

History will be kind to me for I intend to perform It /Project / Turku (Finland) , Bergen (Norway) , Stockholm (Sweden) / August - September 2018

 

Demythologize that history and put it to rest / Savvy Contemporary / Berlin Germany 2018

 

Live Art Network Africa (LANA) / University of Cape Town / South Africa Feb 2018

 

 SUPERCOPY Festival / Madrassa Collective / Zeitraumexit / Mannheim Germany,2017

 

Eucharistika (with Gabriella Badjeck) Yaoundé Blackitude 2017

 

BONE Performance Festival ,Berne Switzerland 2016

 

Colab-Editions Residency,Copenhagen,Denmark,April 2016

 

The Sounds Of Silence (Performances series) Live art d.k,Copenhagen,Danemark 2016

 

Requiem pour Un Fou (Remember Thomas Sankara),Institut Of Contemporary Art,Overgaden,Copenhagen,Danemark,2016

 

Requiem pour un Fou (Remember Ruben Um Nyobe) Festival Théâtre en Folie,Yaoundé,Cameroon 2016

 

Requiem pour un Fou (Remember Ossende Afana)''Rencontre'' Institut de Formation Artistique de Mbalmayo-IFA, Cameroon,October 2015

 

''After Tears 2 '' Goethe Institut Kamerun,Yaoundé June 2015

 

Carrefour International des arts du Spectacle de Douala/ Compto'Art 54,Cameroon,June 2015

 

WATA DON PASS-Looking West,Lilith Performance Studio,Malmo,Sweden,May 2015

 

Afrika-Konferenz,Berlinisierung Afrikas in der Kolonialmetropole Berlin/Wounded Afrika, Berlin,RFA,Febuary 2015

 

Performance CCA,Lagos Nigeria,January 2015

 

Festival International de danse et de percussions Abok I Ngoma,Yaoundé,Cameroon,November 2014

 

Shifting Africa Project 2014 Kunsthalle Faust Hannover,Germany,October 2014

 

Exposition photo performance de Christian Etongo ''What do you think about contemporary art?'' Curateur: Harro Schmidt  Galerie ARTykwariat,Mediations Biennal Poznan Poland September 2014

 

GIPCA Live Art Festival (Cape Town,South Africa) August-September 2014

Symposium Africa archive -Africa future,national theater of Mannheim,May 25-June 05 Germany (Exbhition of photographic of performance)

 

Number 19-141-918 PGM Code ( Goethe Institute , MCI Association May 2014,Yaoundé,Cameroon

Bakassi Peninsul'Art 2014,Limbe,Tiko,Idenau,Cameroon,April 2014


'' The Bodies we tell'' exhibition National Gallery of contemporary art,Yaoundé,Cameroon (Curator Martin Baasch,Germany) April 2014

RAVY FESTIVAL 2014 ( Yaoundé , Cameroon ) April 2014

 
AFIRIPERFORMA LIVE / ART BIENNIAL (Harare , Zimbabwe) November 2013

  Elucubrations philosophiques de Christian Etongo (on Facebook.com )

     Quartier Sud
3 (Goethe Institut Yaoundé) July 2013

REDEMPTION ... MY HOPE ( museum Blackitude Yaoundé),Cameroon April 2013

 
PARDON JESUS ... ( plural collective Boulev'arts exhibition , contemporary art gallery Yaoundé ) Cameroon, March 2013

SPINES /in house project in 2012: Johannesburg (South Africa)

Dance With Spirits (International Dance Day ) June 2012,Yaoundé,Cameroon

RAVY 2012 ( series Afrikan Oil is not for all Afrikans , French Institute , Goethe Institut , Yaoundé )

The street ( with street children ) home hope Ydé June 2011 speech in the room HAITI French cultural center Yaoundé 2011                                                                                                                           GO (exhibition Lumière et Mouvement) Djeuga Hotel ; Yaoundé,May 2011

               
Deep Forest, Akak I ( Soa ),Cameroon, 2011

  Le Temps ( experimental scenes ) Goethe Institut Kamerun , 2010

  
RAVY 2010 Yaoundé,Cameroon

Cameroonian festival for theater and childhood ( Co. MOOK ) Ebolowa 2009

  
Quartier Sud 1 ( cultural center Francis Bebey ) Yaoundé,Cameroon, 2009

 
United Colors ; Yaoundé,Cameroon 2008

 
Fears Espace Oyenga Yaoundé 2007

 
Ngankoura ; cultural center Afrikolor Yaoundé 2006

 
Ghost ; Yaoundé Cameroon Cultural Centre 2004

Exile (World Poetry Day ) Africréa Ydé 2004

             
The face of the world ; Africréa 2004

 
The Vultures ; High Commissioner of Great Britain Ydé 2003


  Femme terre ;  vital club Yaoundé 2002

 
             
Blood Simple 2001

You are dust ... Yaoundé 2001

 
2000 Street to street ; Goethe Institute

                     
paradox ; Goethe Institute

                    
La mort et le fou

 
paradox ; Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire 1999

 
le Siècle des fous ; social center of Fine Arts Yaoundé 1998

 
Iconoclast man 1997,Yaoundé Cameroon

 

L E C T U R E S P E R F O R M A N C E S

 
2011 Les rues de ma mémoire ( Anne Cillon Perri ) Riviera Douala

             Vilains Moutons
( Katja Lange Muller ) Goethe Institut Kamerun

 
       Vin de palme,misère et cordes
( Christian Etongo ) Kamer Roots Ydé


Vultures ( Christian Etongo ) center Afrikolor Ydé,Cameroon

 
I N S T A L L A T I O N S

 

     
2011 Go and do not stop it ( video installation) Djeuga Palace Hotel Ydé


Untitled ; space Oyenga Ydé


Minkomo blues ; video installation and performance , Akak I ( Soa ),Cameroon

 
2012 Directed habitat models and scenography of the ten regions of Cameroon, National Museum

 
           
Artistic director of the company ETONGO PERFORMANCE PROJEKT

                       
President MultiKulti PROJECT ASSOCIATION

                         
Founder and Manager of collective Boulev'arts