A hacker/artspace in the DRC, founded by Eléonore Hellio and Dicoco Boketshu:
Mowoso is a Kinshasa-based creators' collective dedicated to outside-the-box art forms (video, sound, music, dance, performance, electronic networks) and urban hybrid cultures.
Mowoso builds links across diverse disciplines and forms of knowledge and focuses on emergent creative practices: open, participative set-ups, network-driven art endeavours, performative installations, urban in-the-street actions, research and creation workshops… It brings together people who want to share and/or acquire novel ways of conceiving the world and acting within it - artists and thinkers who value their independence, some self-taught and others steeped in knowledge passed on from generation to generation.More here
BEBSON DE LA RUE & TRIONYX par BBC AFRIQUE et... by mowoso
Mowoso draws an important part of its strength from ties it bears to an earlier initiative, out of which it grew: a collective called Ghetto Kota Okola (“Ghetto Enter Grow” in the Lingala language). Ghetto Kota Okola was a school of the streets, an experimental space where ideas and practices were confronted, exchanged and transmitted, giving rise to radically new forms of Hip Hop inflected dance, music and visual art. Founded by musicians Bebson de la rue and his brother Dicoco Boketshu, who now runs Mowoso, Ghetto Kota Okala was active from 1994 to 2004. Its home was the two brothers’ compound in Ngbaka quarter, one of Kinshasa’s toughest neighborhoods. Much of Mowoso’s work is done in this same neighborhood, a stone’s throw from the city’s largest marketplace.