Emeka Ogboh: works primarily with sounds in exploring ways of understanding cities as cosmopolitan spaces with their unique characters. It has been his goal to employ field recordings to explore the history and aural infrastructure of cities, in particular his hometown Lagos, Nigeria. As a metropolis ultimately influenced by universal globalization processes, Lagos is a mélange of new and old, modern and archaic, first and third world. With an archival intent, he has recorded sounds at sites that exist in the tension of the above dichotomies.
These recordings have been variously installed in foreign locales to effect a dialogue between various facets of Lagos and the foreign counterparts, transforming the “neutral” medium of sound into a politicized form of expression to interrogate broader themes of migration and multiculturalism.

Emeka obtained a Bachelor of Art degree in Fine and Applied Arts from University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2001. He has exhibited variously in Nigeria, and Internationally, at venues including, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos; Shin Minatomura, Yokohama Japan; Museum of Contemporary Arts Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Rauternstrauch-Joset-Museum, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Roskilde Denmark; International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) Madrid and at Venice Biennale under the one minutes train.

Emeka is the co-founder of the Video Art Network Lagos, a member of the African Centre for Cities project on African Urbanism, and the Urban Dialogues international collective. He is also an affiliate member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and was part of the Media Lab in Africa delegation to the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEARHUR 2010 (Dortmund, 2010).

He lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria, and his creative templates include sound, video and the web.