Co-conspirators
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Art Curator and Head Communication
Anastasie is a visual artist, a cultural promoter, youth multimedia mentor and the CEO of ANAS VISION Group. She hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through art and philosophy, she examines history, collective memory, and modernity, questioning established narratives. Colonialism's harms, modern slavery, migration, gender issues, conflict, womxn's societal roles, spiritual searches, and religious resentment are at the heart of her artistic and spiritual inquiries. By highlighting the inequalities between sociocultural blocks, her work examines assimilation, inculturation and acculturation in the intercultural exchanges between North-South and East-West societies. Her work has been regularly shown in Africa and Europe since 2018.Email: anastasie@djolifon.org
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Founding Executive Director
Mariam S. Armisen is a feminist activist, social researcher, writer, photographer, movement strategist, and international consultant. For nearly two decades, Mariam dedicated their activism and professional work to so-called lost causes, namely those of feminists, marginalized and criminalized communities— to co-create rhizomes of other possibilities. Central to Mariam’s activism and artistic endeavors are the questions of the power of aesthetics, reclaiming our humanity, the sensual complexity of relationships, creativity, and the importance of the improbable and insignificant, as well as goodness. Through initiatives and collaborations with co-conspirators, Mariam contributes to experiments and reflections aimed at bringing forth the impossible. Mariam is the co-founder and founder of a few initiatives in West Africa, including ISDAO, Q-Zine and QAYN. With Djolifon, Mariam invites us to co-create gardens of radical impossibility and water the blossoming of the otherwiseEmail. mariam@djolifon.org