Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape

Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (also known as Mo Laudi) is a South African multi-disciplinary artist[1][2][3][4], curator[5], writer[6][7], composer[8], music producer[9][10] and DJ[11], based between Paris and Johannesburg. He is a research fellow at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation (AOI), Stellenbosch University, since 2021[12].

As early as 2000, Mo Laudi created South African parties in London, then in Paris, specialised in electronic music such as South African House Music, Kwaito, Deep House and Afro House, as well as Amapiano, Gqom and Shangaan electro. As a composer and DJ, he notably created official remixes with Calypso Rose (Calypso Queen, 2017), Flavia Coehlo (Por Cima, 2017), Elida Almeida and Flavia Coehlo (Sou Free, 2018), Philippe Cohen Solal (AfroBolero, 2019), as well as EPs such as Avant Garde Club Music (2015), Paris Afro House Club (2017) and Jozi Acid (2017). He has also collaborated with Jerome Sydenham, Myd, Naive New Beaters, Angélique Kidjo, Lazy Flow, Smadj, The Very Best, Radioclit, Weapons. He has been invited to perform at festivals such as Solidays in 2014 and 2018, Jazz sous les pommiers, Afropunk (2018), Montreux Jazz Festival (2023 and 2024) as well as in museums and art centres around the world like Fondation Cartier in Paris (2015), Kadist Foundation in Paris (2021), Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (2023) and Artspace in Sydney (2024).

Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux[13], the exhibition he curated in 2022 at the Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) in France, focused on his research on a borderless world from a Pan-African perspective. In 2025, he co-curated Afrosonica. Soundscapes[14][15] at the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève with Madeleine Leclair.

His artworks have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2019 in the exhibition devoted to Ernest Mancoba[16], at the Grand Palais in Paris in collaboration with Sammy Baloji[17][18] and at COUNTER IMAGES[19][20] at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne in 2021, at the Dakar Biennale[4] in 2022, at the Château d'Oiron and the Jeanne d’Arc Chapel in Thouars in France (2023)[21]. His first solo exhibition, Dance of the Ancestors[22][21], took place at The Over in Barcelona in 2023.

Bopape has written essays in the publications accompanying the exhibitions he has curated and articles in the press since 2009. HIs article “Kings, Queens, and the African Renaissance: Narratives of Sovereignty and (De)colonization” was commissioned for the catalogue of the exhibition Kings and Queens of Africa. Forms and Figures of Power at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2025[23]. His text “Globalisto: Resonances of Transformation, Echoes of Sound, and the Praxis of Empathetic Listening in published by Sounds Now in the issue titled "Engaging" in 2024[24].

References

  1. ^ Sosibo, Kwanele (14 February 2020). "Remapping African Musics". Mail&Guardian. Archived from the original on May 28, 2025. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Artspace Sydney".
  3. ^ Fidler, Matt (6 November 2020). "Small things worth preserving – LagosPhoto20's Home Museum". The Guardian. UK. Archived from the original on June 12, 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  4. ^ a b Onabolu, Tobi (29 May 2022). "The Dakar Biennale Returns, Energized by Conversations About African Epistemologies and Colonial Legacies". artnet. USA. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  5. ^ O'Toole, Sean (22 October 2022). "Mo Laudi celebrates the explosive silence of a famous Gerard Sekoto painting". Mail&Guardian. Archived from the original on Oct 15, 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  6. ^ Bopape, Ntshepe Tsekere (April 2024). Globalisto – A Philosophy in Flux – Acts of an Imbizo. Saint Etienne, France: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne, les presses du réel. ISBN 978-2-9550186-3-7.
  7. ^ Bopape, Ntshepe Tsekere (2025). Afrosonica. Soundscapes. Geneva, Switzerland: Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG). ISBN 978-2-9569677-7-4.
  8. ^ Mo Laudi (1 October 2020). "Dancing out of the maelstrom: Mo Laudi rejigs 'Afro Bolero'". Mail&Guardian. Archived from the original on Feb 10, 2025. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  9. ^ "Montreux Jazz Festival".
  10. ^ Richelle Harrison Plesse (9 September 2017). "Music show: Afro House pioneer Mo Laudi, Jack Johnson & Tori Amos". France24. Archived from the original on Dec 12, 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  11. ^ "Mo Laudi. Afro-Electro DJ set". EMST. Athens, Greece. 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  12. ^ "Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation (AOI)". Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  13. ^ "Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux (museum website)". 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  14. ^ "Afrosonica. Soundscapes (exhibition on museum website)". 2025. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  15. ^ Afrosonica. Soundscapes. Geneva: les presses du réel. 2025. ISBN 978-2-9569677-7-4.
  16. ^ Naidoo, Riason (10 October 2019). "Mancoba's genius is at long last acknowledged". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Sammy Baloji invite Mo Laudi, artiste, spécialiste de musique afro-électronique". Grand Palais (in French). Paris, France. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ "Sammy Baloji x Mo Laudi. Johari - Brass Band" (PDF). Imane Farès Galerie. Paris, France. 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "COUNTER IMAGES, curated by Sandrine Colard". Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Germany. 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "Extract of Mo Laudi's composition and installation: Helfritz' Wunderkammer (The Ethnographic Gaze and the History of Cabinets of Curiosities)". YouTube. Cologne, Germany: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ a b "Matrimoine exhibition announcement". Chateau d'Oiron (in French). France. 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  22. ^ Catalan Colorio, Sara (2023). "Dance of the Ancestors". The Over. Barcelona, Spain. Retrieved 1 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ Kings and Queens of Africa - Forms and Figures of Power. Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE; Quai Branly, Paris, France; SNOECK GENT. 2025. ISBN 9461619421. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  24. ^ Bopape (Mo Laudi), Ntshepe Tsekere (19 November 2024). "Globalisto: Resonances of Transformation, Echoes of Sound, and the Praxis of Empathetic Listening". Sounds Now (4): 25–43. Retrieved 1 August 2025.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.