All members of GROUP50:50 met for a week in Berlin in November 2023 to talk. Conflicts, misunderstandings and injuries were discussed, organizational complications analyzed, structural and artistic visions developed. Yannick Useni Sikuzani (professor at the University of Lubumbahsi) and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (activist, curator and publicist from Berlin) acted as mediators for the group.

The GROUP50:50 artists – Huguette Tolinga, Ruth Kemna, Elia Rediger and Eva-Maria Bertschy – and the Palermo-based artist Diawara Bandiougou explore the connections between drumming and the commemoration of the dead together with a group of students, artists and activists. They remember cultural practices from times when we still cohabited with spirits and invent cross-cultural rituals to mourn personal losses and the forgotten dead. A short film will premiere in early November as part of The Time For Denial Is Over at euro-scene in Leipzig.