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A black woman sings into a microphone and stretches one arm forward.
Kokonelle at a performance in the Gasteig HP8 Copyright: Benedikt Feiten/Gasteig

The team of our public library wants to enter into a dialogue with its users. To spark off the conversation and provide inspiration, the artist Kharis Ikoko, aka Kokonelle, will make a statement. What this will be, we don’t yet know. Perhaps it will be music. Or text. Or something else. The only rule: anything goes. All are welcome, and you don’t need to book a place – just come along and take part – your statement, my statement, our statement.

The team of our public library wants to enter into a dialogue with its users. To spark off the conversation and provide inspiration, the artist Kharis Ikoko, aka Kokonelle, will make a statement. What this will be, we don’t yet know. Perhaps it will be music. Or text. Or something else. The only rule: anything goes. All are welcome, and you don’t need to book a place – just come along and take part – your statement, my statement, our statement.

 

Kokonelle, a singer, activist and education consultant with Congolese roots, is on a mission to give a voice to and to create a space for people who stem from outside Europe. A trained paralegal, she organised demonstrations throughout Germany after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, works as an educational consultant, anti-racism trainer and curator and is also studying communication design.