Djatá Bart-Plange | NDNMK Solutions
Djatá Bart-Plange aka NDNMK Solutions completed his Bachelor's degree in English Language and Culture at Utrecht University in 2018. Much of his work stems from the frustrations he experienced within the academic world. For example, knowledge politics, whiteness and masculinity are often-recurring themes. In the coming year, he will focus on producing the first chapter in the series of audiobooks called 'FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.FF' – a mishmash of prose, fiction and non-fiction, sound collage, and game elements. Through this series, Bart-Plange wants to build a digital bridge between the Western, hegemonic knowledge system and various West-African knowledge systems. This project aims at a decolonization of the mind through, at best, the development of a kind of bilingualism or multilingualism in world views – if not: it is an insight into the malleability, contingency, and strengths and weaknesses of our Western way of understanding the world; and it seeks to provide assistance in letting go, joining the scary unknown, learning to listen to voices from outside the imperial centres of the white world, in order to build something else together with the vast wealth of knowledge from all the sciences of the world and its people.
