Encounter 2
Bouloumboombodj marks the beginning of a multiform, anti-disciplinary experimentation: a space of exploration situated at the intersection of kinship, curiosity for artistic practice, and enjoyment.
Through the somatics of voice, frequencies, field recordings, text, and ritual, spaces emerge for sharing, questioning, experimenting, and activating different poetic and theoretical bodies. Bouloumboombodj is a project created by Ikram Bouloum, Serah Boom and Maguette Dieng (Mbodj).
Ikram Bouloum is a Catalan-Amazigh artist, DJ, and curator. After several years mainly focused on music curation and artistic direction, she is currently returning to and placing her artistic and research practice at the center, reconnecting with voice, storytelling, and music through multidisciplinarity and antidisciplinarity. In her music, mostly performed in her mother tongue, Rif Amazigh, she explores themes that traverse the North African diaspora, reimagining its legacies through a poetic, political, and experimental lens.
Maguette Dieng is a sound artist, DJ, and music programmer based in Barcelona, dedicated to musical and cultural research and dissemination across different fronts. On one hand, she works as a DJ and selector under the name Mbodj, performing in venues and festivals both locally and internationally. On the other hand, she is co-founder of the collective Jokkoo, an Afrodiasporic music collective based in Barcelona that approaches music and sound in an undisciplined way-through original creations, event organization, workshops, sound pieces, radio programs, and more. She is also part of the self-managed cultural space Foc. The driving force of her work focuses on how we can create community, justice, and possibility through sound.
boo.m questions the power of sound and image as a safe space for imagination. Their work focuses on themes of pan-Africanism, transculturality, migration, spiritual practices, and the multiple dimensions of musicology. While studying the complexity of human experience, they are committed to documenting movements and communities with whom they share visions and values, as well as processing historical archives in search of interconnections across space and time. Alongside their audiovisual projects, they engage in community organizing with local groups in Barcelona, centering social and political justice through events, workshops, and collective actions.
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Duration
1 hour
Place
Cypress Garden
Dates
June 21, 2026, from 16:30 to 17:30
Price
Free activity with no prior booking required, subject to capacity
