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‘LES GUERRIERES AFRICAINES’
A collaborative endeavor which aims to create an international service agency for African women in Africa.
The aim is to
1. Employ artistic experience to inspire and empower African females on the soil of Africa.
2. Engage women in research by offering collaboration and social dialogue.

The benefits of this agency will allow
1. Creation of networks across Africa for participants to showcase art projects.
2. Autonomous growth and opportunity to work jointly with Africans

If you have ideas to offer and if you are interested in making this project come to life, the agency needs you to get involvement.

Write your proposal to: pokumensah@protonmail.com

Artistic experience is a form of reflection.Through sensory and emotional perception, precisely through artistic experience, from which it cannot be separated, artistic knowledge is sensual and physical "embodied knowledge". The knowledge that artistic research strives for is therefore a felt knowledge acquired from experience.

WHAT IS ARTISTIC RESEARCH?

The phrase "art as research” seems not to be quite accurate, because it is not the art, which evolves into research but rather, it seems like it is research that becomes artistic - so it should be rather named "Research as Art", with the central question: When is Research Art?

At what times, in which phase can research be artistic? Could it be in the methods?
Such as searching, archiving, collecting, interpreting and explaining, modelling, experimentation and intervening?
Or rather could it be in the motivation or the inspiration?
Is it a reflection, a discussion, in the formulation of a research questions?
Could research become artistic through the conception and composition, through the implementation, the publication, the evaluation, or simply the manner of discourse?

At what stage does the reflection of artistic research take place?
Maybe in order to carry artistic research, the artistic experience is mandatory?

What does it mean to collaborate and engage in social dialogue?

It means to work jointly on an activity or project.

It means,
to create a dialogue an exchange and as well as a discourse.
Dialogues opens rooms for change and improvement.
It opens rooms for transformation and alteration.
Social dialogues make room for metamorphosis.

To employ artistic experience to inspire, what does it mean?

It means to engage people to feel the way you feel.

It means;
to engage people to go through an experience with you.
to engage people to understand how you feel.
to put the self in the shoes of the other and travel with them.
to be emotionally engaged and emotionally receptive.
to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.