CelineSianiDjiakoua

On Saturday 2nd July, I was lucky to have been commissioned by City Arts to produce a sound piece as part of Solo Art Solo Heart. The sound piece was accompanying the What do you love ? installation. The sound piece, as the rest of this project, is an ongoing piece. For it, I ask people my 5 questions (What are the most important place, date, person and object in your life and what do you love) and I ask them to answer in their language (when not English). They then teach me how to pronounce them. The final sound piece consists of me saying their answers in their language, as if I was really able to speak so many ! I will keep collecting as many different languages as I can .... Sound piece 1 Sound piece 2 I was very pleased to have the What do you love ? installation on display at the Nottingham Contemporary, even for one night ! Proposal for the Nottingham Contemporary Work as installed on the night Looking at the work, James, m...

Working at a commissioned sound piece for Solo Art, Solo Heart  in July. In collaboration with the Language Cafe, I have asked people to answer the questions from "What do you love ?" in their language.  They help me to practice. The final piece will be my voice saying people's answers in different languages. James here is helping me practicing with Mongolian ... with great patience and perseverance !!

What do you love? Ongoing interactive installation from 2002 – present This work has been shown as an itinerant, ever-growing interactive mobile in which people can step in and write their answers to those questions: what is the most important … date, person, object, place in your life? What do you love? Participants can also write in their mother tongue if it isn’t English. More than 200 people have already taken part since 2002. Already about 15 different languages: English, Welsh, French, Portuguese, Kurdish, Jamaican patois, Catalan, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Thai, Japanese. Another part of the work consists in the never-ending translation of each single paper (individuals’ answers); each paper is numbered, the answers typed and then translated in as many different languages as possible. It takes the shape of a booklet. This work is not presented here. “I am currently working collaboratively with the Language Café in Nottingham toward the production of a sou...

I have been invited to take part in an exhibition for the national Refugee week, along with other artists. I am very pleased to have the piece shown in a library where people already read, write, day dream, think .... Preparations  First images of the installation at the library

Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 11:00am - Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 4:00pm Location : Hanley Park, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom Common Ground is a weekend long arts event in Hanley Park, Stoke-on-Trent, organised by AirSpace Gallery Studio Artists. The project invites the public to discover art works hidden and placed in the city park. The art works work with the historical and physical reality of the site, and set out possible future visions for a public park in need of activation. Common Ground has been commissioned in response to a recent public consultation project, Quality Streets, where the public expressed a desire to see activities and events taking place within the park. Common Ground will see artists intervening in public spaces; loudly, quietly, secretly or overtly, in a manner which questions the use of public parkland in the 21st century. The works will last the weekend, be sensitive to the place they are situated, and offer opportunities for delight and magic ...

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Proposal for Common Ground Hanley Park is, on a multicultural point of view, one of the richest places in Stoke-on-Trent. Certainly much more than a dozen of different languages can be heard there. The Shelton area has a highly diverse community: Asian resident community, International students, European and East European migrants, asylum seekers from various countries and now families who have become residents in UK. Opposite the park is also the Cauldon College where a lot of foreigners go to improve their English when they first arrive in Stoke-on-Trent. This is where the idea and the first trials of one of my works started, in 2002, when I first arrived in UK, coming from France. This piece is an interactive and progressive installation called “What do you love ?”. It consists in a circular portable mobile : from the outside, on hanging pieces of papers, people can read what answers have been given to the questions* and from the inside, they can individually write their own ...

What is the most important place in your life ? What is the most important date in your life ? What is the most important person in your life ? What is the most important object in your life ? What do you love ?