Team members

 

The team members from the Netherlands worked closely with members of S.M.I.D.O. (Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organisation)

Teammembers of S.M.I.D.O are:
Project management:
George Amankwah (President) Charles Taylor (Vice President) Nyaabe – Aweeba Azongo (Consultant) Reuben Konlan (Communication)

Technical supervision:
W.A. Cophie Albert, Philip K. Kwarteng

Assistent technical supervision:
Antipem Charles Ofori

Mechanics:
CHRISTOPHER ADUSEI, Kofi Owusu, Eliaia Abew, Appiah Boateng, Daniel Appiah Adjeilum, Seth Frimpong, J.K. Mensah, Desmond, Apomasn Kofi Stevenson, Sidik Adramani

Painters:
Appiah Kubi, Debora Nyarko, Thomas Owusu

Liners:
Atta Agyemari, Degraft Kwame, Atta, Joseph Arthur, Yaya Adama, Yaw

Electra:
Lamus Kofi Musah, Shiabu Nabiridih Rashidi, James, Justice Jamal Saeea, Francisco Yeboah

Bodyworkers:
Abdul Razak Abubakar , Daniel Owusu , Sololmon Osei Yeboah

All Round:
Francis Kuyol, Samuel Ampiah, Daniel

Carpenter:
Murphy Martey Cudjoe

The team members (in Ghana) from the Netherlands are:
Researcher:
Joost van Onna (1976) studied social psychology and criminology. He is currently working on his PhD thesis (at the VU University of Amsterdam) about factors contributing to (non-)compliance to laws. Through his work, thesis and his long-term stay in South America, he is fascinated by the functioning and strength of informal self-regulating (economic) systems. He participates in a personal capacity.

Designer:
Melle Smets (1975) studied OK5/ art and public space ArtEZ Academy in Arnhem. He currently works in Rotterdam as a conceptual artist concerned with public space. Since 2000 he describes himself as an ‘archaeologist of the present’.

Documentation:
Teun Vonk (1986) graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2012. Teun’s work concerns the relationship between the individual and the group. As a director he takes over control of a group and unveils the group’s dynamics, resulting in bewitching short films.

Professional avonturist and writer:
Bram Esser (1976) studied social philosophy at the University of Groningen. Currently he works as a freelance writer with a special interest in public space. His work ranges from analytical-reflective essays on the city and urban culture to more literary journalism and short stories. As a teenager, Bram and his parents lived in several countries including Ghana.