Exocé Kasongo aka Exocé

Welcome to a new Podcast Episode of WITHIN ELEMENT where I gather converstaions, I have with a chosen humxn I consider to be a #rolemodelforthenextgeneration 

Buy sharing and highlighting stories of humxns I meet and connect with, I invite you listen or read on my Inatgram account, with the intention to allow these interviews to inspire you, make you laugh and open up mind- space to think.  

Exocé is a multidisciplinary Afrocentric Artist: Artistic performer, dancer, visual artist. He mostly performs alone in improvisation and creation of stories or in the transmission of a language for other creators. His dance style is experimental storytelling.

He considers himself as an Afropean because he was born in Paris of Congolese parents, so he has a double culture.

Marked by a story between two worlds, Exocé Kasongo was born in 1995, in France. He grows up in a very humble environment and understands very early on that through Art he can break all barriers and reach the sensitivity of the people around him. Thanks to his years of experience, Exocé confirms himself as a dancer (Krump / Hip-hop) with Afro/Contemporary influences and starts to develop his own body language. His dance is mostly based on improvisation, expressing the true self in the present moment. He is also a visual artist and has started a series of analog collages that are currently exhibited at the cultural center Oyoun-Neu Denken in Berlin.

He has collaborated with many artists like Patrice, Swift Guad, Katerinha, Sevdaliza or Stéphane Ashpool. Mon univers artistique est centré sur l'afro-futurisme, un retour aux sources africaines en faisant le lien entre l'ancestralité et la modernité dans les diasporas. 

After various experiences (modeling, performance, contests, video clips), Exocé quickly professionalized its meetings and collaborations. Always with the objective of bringing meaning to the projects in which they intervene. 

Whether it is in live projects, video clips or experiments, Exocé always brings the universe that fits with the artistic direction of the project. 

You can see him in creative collaborations like:

- "Sound of Paris" by Stéphane Ashpool and performed in the Salle Pleyel in Paris (2018), 

- interactive experience "PASSAGE" by Théoriz Studio (2018)

- short film "LAMUKA" that he co-constructed with Camille Roy and in which he is the actor. Film shown at the Grand Action Cinema in 2020 (2019)

- "Cleanse" (black body naked on stage) choreographed by Ricardo de Paula and performed at HAU Berlin (2020)

Exocé is also a member of Out Out Time Embassy, a multicultural group of curators producing conversation and curiosity about art and culture in Berlin.

In this Episode, I share with you, wonderful exchanges I have   had with Exoce this past year. We talk about life, the connection of mind, body and soul within the flow of both feminine ans masculine energies, as well as his beautiful gift of fatherhood and his future. 

Please join me now, and listen to “the behind the scenes of Exoce”.

quote at the end by  Malebo Sephodi: 

“I am art.

I am authentic.

I am love.

I am me.”