paula bulling &

maman salissou oumarou

 



The German Paula Bulling (1986) is an artist and translator. Her debut album, Im Land der
Frühaufsteher, will be published in spring 2012 by Avant Verlag. For her Brussels' story she
worked with Maman Salissou Oumarou (1975), a Nigerien actor, author and director who fled Niger for Germany in 2001. Together with Paula Bulling he is now working on Youssouf, an album about a young Nigerien who wishes to emigrate.

Work in progress

For Brussels in Shorts, Bulling and Oumarou are working on a story in which a Nigerien man telephones his niece in Niger from Brussels, so as to illustrate the contrast between the Oude Graanmarkt in Brussels and an African marketplace. Paula Bulling and Maman Salissou Oumarou stayed in Brussels from 26 March to 9 April 2012.

video Paula Bulling & Maman Salissou Oumarou (© Ryan Le Garrec en Stefano Lapasini)

 

Paula Bulling & Maman Salissou Oumarou's drawing board:

    • open house @ passa porta

    • On Thursday 17 and Friday 18 May, visit Passa Porta's office and learn more about its laboratory activities. Ask at the bookshop from 14:00 to 17:30. At 17:40, brief presentation and meeting with graphic novelist in residence William Goldsmith. Accueil dans la librairie. More...

    • We 16/05/2012 - 11:05

    • interview with michael cunningham

    • Et Alors? magazine meets Michael Cunningham in Brussels where he was invited as a writer in residence by Het beschrijf: Coffee, Belgian chocolates and a conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. The magazine is for sale at Passa Porta Bookshop.

       

    • We 25/04/2012 - 10:04

    • louis paul boon centenary

    • On Thursday 15 March the great Belgian writer Louis Paul Boon (Chapel Road...) would have turned a hundred. The centenary starts with a literary birthday party in his native city of Aalst, and will come to a close on Sunday 7 October in Brussels, when Passa Porta will be holding The Great Boon Marathon at the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS). Check Boon!2012 (in Dutch).

    • Tu 13/03/2012 - 16:03

    • watch our evening with new portuguese voices

    • Full recording of the event with Portuguese authors Pedro Rosa Mendes, Dulce Maria Cardoso and José Luis Peixoto, in Brussels on Thursday 16 February 2012. Introduction by literary translator Harrie Lemmens, interview by Annelies Beck.

    • Fr 17/02/2012 - 08:02

    • tomáš zmeškal wins european union prize for literature

    • In October 2010, Czech writer Tomáš Zmeškal was writer in residence in Brussels. Recently, he has been awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for his debut novel "Love Letter in Cuneiform Script" (Milostný Dopis Klínovým Písmem) which describes the post-war world of 1950s Czechoslovakia from a postmodern, fragmented perspective. More info...

    • Fr 09/12/2011 - 14:12

    • video: slavoj zizek in brussels

    • Here you can watch the recording of Slavoj Žižek's lecture in Brussels (BOZAR) on 28 November 2011. More than 2200 people attended this event, co-produced by Het beschrijf at Passa Porta.

    • Su 04/12/2011 - 11:12

    • blog # 5 neel mukherjee

    • Writer in residence Neel Mukherjee was staying in Passa Porta's writer's flat. You can read his latest blog here. The texts are posted on the website of project partner the British Council and of host Het beschrijf.

    • Mo 28/11/2011 - 16:11