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»Concorde/Allende« 2023
2 Pigment Prints, framed,
each 100 x 70 cm

Le Monde de Demain, 2024
9 walks, 9 videos 
9-Channel-Video, 1:18:36h Loop, 4K,
sound by DJ Sundae

»Eman« 2023
5 Pigment Prints, framed,
each 70 x 50 cm

Le Monde de Demain
9 walks, 9 books 
21 x 28 cm, 3.320 pages,
1.600 photographs, in 9 books
Digital Offset Print
Edition of 2+1 copies

»Le Monde de Demain« 2025
Xerox-Print, framed,
21 x 29,7 cm

Artist statement: »In 2023, we worked on »Le Monde de Demain,« a new chapter of »Cartographie Dynamique,« as part of ‚Regards du Grand Paris.‘* Our focus was on exploring the relationship between the ‚Banlieue‘ (suburbs) and the ‚Centre‘ (city center) of Paris, particularly in terms of the political and social landscape, urban transformation, and the visibility of various groups of people in this urban space.

With a focus on »Paris 2024« and breakdancing, we conducted nine walks through the »Grand Paris« region, covering a total distance of 84.39 km, twice the distance of a regular marathon. In the year celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, our project connected different sites and areas, starting in the north, the birthplace of French hip-hop culture.«

*»Le Monde de Demain« is a chapter of
Cartographie Dynamique»».

Thanks a lot to everybody who supported us with their knowledge, efforts, energy and their time, everybody who shaped our experience and research.
Theatre de la Commune Aubervilliers (Elodie, Louise and Judith/Ecole des Actes); Janice Bieleu; Astou, Zaira and Sabrina of InBEATween Aubervilliers;

Fouzia Bendelhoum and the team of the mission locale porte Saint Ouen; Pascale Obolo; Christian Omodeo of Le Grand Jeux; Ameer Alhalbi; Mickael Vis; The inspiring events at Le 6b in Saint-Denis: Krumpfest and Boma Mutu Battle de Danse. Khadija Barkani and Clement Postec of the Ateliers Medicis. Cornelia Eichhorn. In Düsseldorf: FFT Forum Freies Theater and Takao Baba.
A special thanks to Eman Hussein, her inspiration and collaboration. And to DJ Sundae for the sound.

Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber 
Le Monde de Demain / Move and Freeze, 2024

Freeze:

»Le Monde de Demain«
Xerox-Print, framed, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2025

“Le Monde de Demain” (The World of Tomorrow) was the first truly successful rap record in Europe in 1990, making Suprême NTM one of the pioneers of hip-hop in France. Today, the French hip-hop market is the second largest in the world. Surely a reason for the decision to include breakdancing as an Olympic discipline at the 2024 Paris Games.

»Concorde/Allende«
2 Pigment Prints, framed, 100 x 70 cm, 2023

Subcultures often emerge in the suburbs, on the outskirts of the city. Hip-hop in France began in the banlieues of Paris and Marseille, where music, lyrics, and dance first took shape. From the périphérique, young people moved into the city center to to gain recognition and visibility.
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber explore sites that are significant to the history of hip-hop in Paris. At each location, they place a black square cloth, photographing it as a symbol—evoking the cardboard dancers used to protect their bodies, and at the same time representing the stage, the space the dancers claimed for themselves.
In this exhibition, two of these photographs are on display: one from Cité Allende in St. Denis, where Suprême NTM began their journey; the other from Place de la Concorde, where breakdance competitions were held during the 2024 Games.

»Eman«
5 Pigment Prints, framed, 70 x 50 cm, 2023

While working on this series, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber met dancer and choreographer Eman Hussein. They shared an interest in transformation, construction sites, and the labor and movement of construction workers.
Katja and Oliver asked Eman to perform one of her specific sequences she developed from the workers movements for the camera. Together they created a series of five images showing different stages of this movement, in the manner of the historic work of Eadweard Muybridge or Étienne-Jules Marey, or like dance and movement tutorials. In the 1980s, breakdancers published photographic tutorials to teach their moves.

Move:

Le Monde de Demain
9 walks, 9 videos 
9-Channel-Video, 1:18:36h Loop, 4K,
sound by DJ Sundae, 2024

In January and February 2023, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber conducted nine photographic walks covering a total distance equivalent to two marathons—84.38 kilometres—each linking two sites associated with the Olympic Games, mostly construction sites of future Olympic venues. Primarily interested in the urban transformation and the developing infrastructure between these venues, they took photographs every 200 meters always facing the direction of their walk. These 1,600 photographs were used to create nine videos, each of a different length. The images slowly move from right to left across the screens, each screen showing one complete walk. The nine monitors are arranged geographically, corresponding to the walks in the banlieues of Paris.  At a glance, you can see and compare images from the different suburbs. Images drift from one monitor to the next. Black text panels drift irregularly in the opposite direction above the monitors.They contain quotes on the artistic practices of walking and photography, on infrastructure and urban development, and various lines from hip-hop lyrics. French musician DJ Sundae created a sound piece referencing “old school” hip-hop from the 1990s for this video-installation. All photographs of each walk are also published in an artists book edition.

Reference Library 2023/2024

As a kind of “Preliminary Drifting,” the artists also created a website to bring together research materials, associations, links, and sources related to walking, music, dance, performance, art, and political events in the context of breakdancing and the broader political landscape.
 
Le Monde de Demain, A Prologue
2023
31 x 43 cm, 24 pages, Ed. of 150 copies
published by Böhm Kobayashi, Düsseldorf

An additional publication has been released, featuring supplementary images: photographs taken during a car ride along the Boulevard Périphérique, photographs of historical locations, a portrait of Eman, and some of the research materials.