Antawan Byrd interviews Femi Owoyale, a Nigerian student living in Helsinki on Lagos soundscapes ARS11 outdoor installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. April 2011.
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Radiophonic Creation Day.
Date: 4th June 2011
International Radiophonic Creation Day is a biennal event honouring radio creation on its widest sense : soundscape, Hörspiel, radio drama, experimental music and various sounds.
Lagos soundscapes: 02H00 > 03H00 Schedule.
List of programming: http://shakerattleroll.parisson.org/programming.php
Lagos soundscapes @ Austrian lace - Nigerian fashion show.
Date: 14th May 2011
Venue: Expo hall, Eko Hotel, Lagos.
FESTIVAL MIDEN at OPENSHOWSTUDIO
6.7 and 8 May 2011.
OpenShowstudio is pleased to host Video Art Festival Miden. The themed programs of contemporary video art "All Greek to ME", "The Moneying of Life" and "Supernatural" will be presented on 6.7 and 8 May 2011.
From 2pm to 12am, last projection at 11pm.
The Moneying of Life
Saturday 7 May
The most crucial and constant concern of the globalized village over the last two years, directing lives and shaping realities. Is it a game of Tombola or even worse a casino? Is moneying the meaning of life? What will the clouds of the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh bring? The program, curated by Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos was initially screened in Festival Miden 2010, Kalamata GR.
1. Tiziana Contino – Different by (2010), Italy, 4:00
2. Anna Vasof – Global game (2008), Austria, 1:16
3. Anna Vasof – 1-100 (2008), Austria, 3:25
4. Laura Mergoni – Tombola (2009), Italy, 4:00
5. Svjetlan Junakovic – My Way (2010), Croatia, 7:00
6. Hyeseung Yoo – We are Friends (2010), South Korea, 2:23
7. Marius Tanasescu – Virtual counting money machine (1152 $) (2010), Canada, 1:24
8. Jan Verbeek – Counterparts (2010), Germany-Japan, 8:43
9. Danijel Zezelj – A Different Bunny (2010), USA, 2:29
10. Jonathan Johnson – Us Dollar Dead End (2010), USA, 1:41
11. Anna Vasof – Choalas' Dance (2008), Austria, 2:10
12. Emeka Ogboh – JOS 2010 (2010), Nigeria, 9:10
http://www.openshowstudio.gr/en/projects/item/182-festival-miden-at-openshowstudio
ARS 11
Kiasma , Museum Of Contemporary Art in Helsinki
15 April–27 November 2011.
ARS 11 Will Change Your Perceptions about Africa and Contemporary Art.
The ARS 11 exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki investigates Africa in contemporary art. The exhibition features some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The Kiasma Theatre also has a programme of ARS events and performances. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work.
The themes of the exhibition, such as migration, environmental problems and urban life are global, issues that affect us all. Memory, recollection and the simultaneous presence of different histories and layers of time are some of the common starting points of the work of many artists featured in the exhibition. At best ARS 11 can produce new understanding and also provide background information on the situation in today’s Africa. The exhibition will extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
ARS 11 is a major international art event filling Kiasma with artworks, performances, screenings, discussions and workshops. The ARS 11 curator team are Pirkko Siitari, Director of Kiasma, Arja Miller, Chief Curator, and Jari-Pekka Vanhala, Curator. The ARS 11 programme for Kiasma Theatre will be compiled by Riitta Aarniokoski. The themes of the exhibition and the artists are presented in richly illustrated exhibition catalogue. Brief descriptions and pictures of the works are found also in ARS 11 Guide, which is available at the ticket/information desk in Finnish, Swedish and English.
The artists are Georges Adéagbo (Benin), Ardmore Ceramic Art (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), Baaba Jakeh Chande (Zambia/ Finland), Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe/ South Africa), Steven Cohen (South Africa/ France), El Anatsui (Ghana/Nigeria), Samba Fall (Senegal/ Norway), Rotimi Fani-Kayode (Nigeria/ United Kingdom), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon/ Central African Republic), Patrizia Guerresi Maïmouna (Italy), Romuald Hazoumè (Benin), Ditte Haarløv Johnsen (Denmark), Laura Horelli (Finland/ Germany), Pieter Hugo (South Africa), Alfredo Jaar (Chile/ United States), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Vincent Meessen (United States/ Belgium), Nandipha Mntambo (Swaziland/ South Africa), Baudouin Mouanda (Republic of the Congo), Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria/ Belgium), Odili Donald Odita (Nigeria/ United States), Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria), Abraham Onoriode Oghobase (Nigeria), J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere (Nigeria), Andrew Putter (South Africa), Elina Saloranta (Finland), Mary Sibande (South Africa)and Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon/ France).
Moments of Beauty is a coproduction with CCA Lagos and an independently curated part of ARS 11 exhibition. Guest curators for the Moments of Beauty, an exhibition of photographic work by J.D. ’Okhai Ojeikere, are Bisi Silva and Aura Seikkula.
ARS 11 will also be part of the programme of the Capital of Culture year 2011 in Turku. The contribution of Kiasma will include two video installations from its collections: Where is Where? (2008) by Eija-Liisa Ahtila and WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007) by Isaac Julien. This part of the ARS 11 exhibition is produced in cooperation with the Kiasma Foundation. ARS 11 will extend across Finland and also to Stockholm, Sweden. The satellite exhibitions will be curated and produced by the partner museums and will showcase the themes of ARS 11.
KIASMA
Museum of Contemporary Art
Mannerheiminaukio 2
00100 Helsinki
Finland
www.kiasma.fi
VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project
by CologneOFF
Emeka Ogboh
Nigerian videomaker
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Interview:10 questions
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“DIFFERENCES?/SIMILARITIES!”
by Urban Dialogues ©.
Opening 04 March 2011.
This project explores the following questions: What is contemporary digital art and photography? What is photography? What is real and what is perceived? If we manipulate photographs with digital technology, is it similar or different than 'staging' a scene and photographing it?
Is photography that 'documents' the 'world' really a documentation of what exists or is it all in the photographer's manipulation of the tools they are using (the camera and in the developing). Isn't the process completed and the meaning in the eye of the viewer, regardless of the artists intent. Some of the work taps into contemporary themes about urban interventions, global warming, sustainability, gentrification. Urban Dialogues©, a group of nine artists from different cities and cultures experimenting with collaborations which bridge their global diversity and artistic similarities, questioning the nature of artistic practices in today’s digital age: is art made by the sole artist alone in their studio or can collaborative works push us to new heights?
Urban Dialogues© (UD) examines the complex interactions between artists, cultures, nature, urban interventions, cities, and technology, via photography, digital art and video, capturing the contradictions and analogies of our individual and collective histories, reflecting today’s new era of global engagement. UD artists all met via an artist social networking website, came together and virtually exchange photos of their cities and art. The collaborative artworks are hybrids of each artists’ unique vision, time and place.
Contributing Artists:
Amy Basin [New York], Sonia Gil [Rio], Jose Javier Gonzalez [Madrid], Jana Hunterova [Liberec], Frie J. Jacobs [Zoersel], Aditi Kulkarni [Mumbai], Emeka Ogboh [Lagos], Uma Ray [Kolkata], Hidemi Shimura [Shangai].
The Green Summary:
A retrospect developed around the theme of Independence.
17 December 2010.
In celebration of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos’ 3 year
anniversary, artists who have engaged with the centre over the last
three years have been invited back to interpret their experience with
CCA around the theme of Independence.
At Cologne’s central library, Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh has set up a speaker to bring Lagos and Cologne into acoustic dialogue.
Artists were given the gallery
space as a studio from 3rd – 17th December to develop and present a
body of work, with one restriction, work produced must be Green.
Artists selected work with a variety of medium including; painting,
photography and video art and were provided with materials from which
to develop the work.
The resulting exhibition draws from their various
artistic backgrounds and collaborative efforts to present independence
through the eyes of contemporary Nigerian artists.
The Green summary will run from December 20th 2010 - 21st January 2011
Opening talk will take place on Monday 20th from 2pm with a
presentation by contributing artists, followed by light refreshments.
Contributing Artists:
Karo Akpokiere, Jude Anogwih, Jelili Atiku, Ndidi Dike, Uche Joel
Chima, Taiye Idaho, Emeka Ogboh, Kainebi Osahenye, Richardson Oveibvo,
Victoria Udondian
Cologne exhibition explores art and media from Africa's megacities.
Wordsgate Gazette, 16 November 2010
Car drivers honk, buses roar and merchants shout about the goods they’re selling. It’s everyday life at a bus station in Lagos, but the sounds of the Nigerian capital have now come to Cologne as part of the “Afropolis: City, Media, Art” exhibition hosted by the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum.
At Cologne’s central library, Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh has set up a speaker to bring Lagos and Cologne into acoustic dialogue.
“It’s a melting pot of all kinds of sounds,” Ogboh said. “In this bus park, you discover the multiculturalism and the economics of Lagos. It embodies what the city is all about.”
The artists featured in “Afropolis” use photography, texts, films and even blogs to show how they’ve found their place in African metropolises. For Emeka Ogboh, the hallmark of the cities is multicultural cohabitation. That’s why he’s excited to see the reaction to his sound installation in Cologne.
“I found it interesting for the installation to be out here on the streets in Germany, especially in light of Angela Merkel’s speech on integration, migration and multiculturalism,” Ogboh said. Last month, Germany’s chancellor commented that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had “utterly failed.”
“I want to see how people will react to this strange sound out on the street, which could be likened to an immigrant coming into a new place.”
On the other hand, Ogboh acknowledged that the acoustic landscapes he treasures in Lagos are just an annoyance for others. That’s been the case for some passers-by in Cologne, who have already made their way to the library’s doorman to complain.
Full article here:
http://www.wordsgate.com/cologne-exhibition-explores-art-and-media-from-africas-megacities/
Afropolis. City, Media, Art;
Exhibition on urbanization in Africa.
4 November 2010 - 13 March 2011
Today more than half the world's population lives in cities. While many cities in Europe are shrinking, countries in the southern hemisphere are confronted with rapid urbanization. In fact, most of the world's megacities are now located in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Many people in Germany are still unfamiliar with the cultural development in Africa due to the fact that media coverage continues to grossly neglect the continent. Consequently, we know very little about the specific topographies and cultures in African cities which do not necessarily correspond to historic Euro-American models of urban development. The exhibition "Afropolis. City, Media, Art" examines six African cities, their significant structures and patterns of development. With texts, photos and audio material, the exhibition will present the history of each city, while European and African artists address the current challenges of urbanism in a variety of new works, including photography, graphic art, sculptures, video works and interactive network art projects. The combination of scientific analysis and artistic research, as well as the cooperation between curators and artists, will produce a comprehensive view of the highly dynamic, informal processes at work in African cities.
Participants:
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Weyinmi Atigbi und Olakunle Tejuoso, Lara Baladi, Pume Bylex,
Deadheat, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning UGent, Hala Elkoussy,
ETH Studio Basel, Ismail Farouk, Mandy Gehr t, Sam Hopkins, Laura Horelli, Daniel
Kötter und Constanze Fischbeck, Salifou Lindou und Christian Hanussek, Kgafela
oa Magogodi und Jyoti Mistry, Masai Mbili, Méga Mingiedi, Sabelo Mlangeni, Mowoso,
Rana El Nemr, Sam Nhlengethwa, Cédrick Nzolo, Emeka Ogboh, Uche Okpa-Iroha,
Kainebi Osahenye, Wouter Osterholt und Elke Uitentuis, Naomi Roux und Hannah
le Roux, SADI, Karola Schlegelmilch, Slum-TV, Minnette Vári
Project director: Kerstin Pinther
Curators: Kerstin Pinther, Christian Hanussek, Larissa Förster
Venues and schedule:
- 4 November 2010 - 13 March 2011 Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne
- 2011 Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Iwalewa-Haus Bayreuth
www.afropolis.net
Chicago! Art! Bikes! Friday! October 1, 2010.
October is here, which means it’s time for Halloween stores to start popping up on every corner and Oktoberfest street festivals to start popping up everywhere you’re trying to park. But if you don’t particularly love that creepy Halloween-mask-rubber aroma...and if the opportunity to drink overpriced beer outside on the sidewalk isn’t quite worth being rammed in the knees repeatedly by double-wide strollers . . . thank heavens October is also time for Chicago Artists Month and the Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival!
This Friday’s “Bicycles and the Arts” event at Happy Dog Gallery will look at the connections between these two vital elements of culture and society:
Wheels on the Ground and in the Sky, a group exhibition with paintings, sculptures, and videos — Andrew DelaRosa, Janina Ciezadlo, John Bambino, Alpha Bruton, Regin Ingloria, Matt Weber, and Catie Olson’s Pigeon-toed About Homage (inspired by Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York);
John Greenfield reads from his new book Bars Across America: Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast;
Chicago Underground Library presents a Pop Up Library;
a musical ensemble performs — Derek Repsch (electronics), Andrew Royal (violin), Robin Boudreaux (tenor saxophone), Dan Godston (trumpet), Alex Wing (guitar), and Jimmy Bennington (drums) — including a telematic performance with an ensemble in Detroit and an homage to Frank Zappa’s 1963 appearance on The Steve Allen Show (when Zappa taught Allen how to play a bicycle and the Steve Allen Orchestra performed with the musical bicycles);
conversations with bicycle groups in other communities across the U.S. via skype, including Spearfish Bike Cooperative (Spearfish, SD) and the New Orleans Community Bike Project;
images and sounds of projects by U.S. and international artists and organizations will be shown, including those by Ultra Grøn (Copenhagen), Emeka Ogboh (Lagos, Nigeria), and Cay Brøndum (Copenhagen).
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/28762
The next CologneOFF VI preview is scheduled for 30 September – 2 October 2010 on Simultan Festival. Timisoara/Romania.
Selected videos –>
Ulf Kristinansen (Norway) – The Care Bears – 2010, 3:00
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday – 2010, 3:35
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) – [dis]connect – 2009, 1:58
Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue (Ireland) – Why Do You Have a Beard? – 2010, 6:02
Denise Hood (USA) - Disconnect – 2009, 3:47
Irina Gabiani (Georgia) – Diachronicon – 2010, 1:00
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Drawing No. 5 – , 2009, 1:02
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:10
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – The Homecoming Artist – 2007, 4:37
Mohamed Harb (Palestine) - Without Windows – 2009, 5:04
http://www.simultan.org
No 2: Lagos Soundscapes | Digital Arts Remote Lectures. 21st September 2010.
The Remote Lecture Series is a series of Skype and Video streamed lectures from across the globe. In this remote lecture Emeka Ogboh will be speaking and presenting his Lagos Soundscapes sound art series...
Tuesday the 21st September 2010 - South African Time 18:30 – 19:00.
Digital Arts Seminar Room, Digital Arts Convent Building - opposite the Wits School of Arts.
Please note – GMT 16:30 for streaming. Please see streaming page for more information.
For more information please contact tegan (dot) bristow (at) wits (dot) ac (dot) za or visit: www.digitalarts.wits.ac.za/remote
Localities exhibition: 10 Sept – 7 Nov 2010.
Localities will probe physical and mental experiences of artists pushing forward the frontiers of their worlds to deconstruct stereotypes and subvert the notion of belonging to a specific locality/community/culture. These artists will unpack what we take for granted and tackle the issue of territory at large as well as the concept of otherness (me, us, them). Localities is a multi facetted concept interconnecting time and space, cultures and communities, reality and illusion.
Participating artists:
Adel Abidin (Iraq / Finland), Alen Aligrudic (Denmark / Bosnia), Moridja Kitenge Banza (DR Congo), Doing it for Daddy (South Africa), Esra Ersen (Turkey), Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria), Khalil Rabah (Palestine) and Wael Shawky (Egypt)
Curators:
Sanne Kofod Olsen, director/curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
N'Goné Fall, independent curator, Senegal
Samar Martha, independent curator, Palestine.
Opening:
9 September, 5-7 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Stændertorvet 3A
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark
www.samtidskunst.dk
ISEA2010 RUHR Conference
Workshop: A Media Lab in Africa. 24 August 2010
Tue 24 August 2010
13:00–14:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund,
L 102b
Moderated by Andreas Broeckmann (de)
ISEA2010 is hosting a group of art and media experts from different sub-saharan countries. This session offers an informal opportunity to meet them, and to discuss the possibilities of building the infrastructure for media art practice in the region.
Participants include: Tegan Bristow, South Africa; Elizabeth Cheluget Thomas, Kenya; Eyongakpa Mbi aka Em'kal, Cameroon; Luc Fosther Diop, Cameroon; Fatoumata Kande, Senegal; Nii Laryea Korley, Ghana; Emeka Ogboh, Nigeria; Cara Snyman, South Africa.
http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/conference/tuesday-24-august-2010-dortmund/workshop-a-media-lab-in-africa
Retrieving Humanity: July 30, 2010.
Retrieving Humanity is a one of a kind interactive performance and installation that will bring live streaming video and audio from around the world to Santa Fe. This new concept of storytelling will allow the audience, by participation, to explore and express connections with their community and the world at large. Through the use of cutting-edge technology, including custom-made software, motion sensors, media streaming, computer networking, and DJ and VJ (video jockey) software, Retrieving Humanity pushes the boundaries of art, technology, and communication. This event will be held 7 – 9pm July 30, 2010 at Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, NM, USA....
Retrieving Humanity will address the difference between viewing culture from the outside or engaging with it as a participant. The audience will be encouraged to explore these differing attitudes and test the traditional boundary between audience and performer by becoming a participant. Santa Fe Complex will be transformed into an immersive space with a promenade of six kiosks, each with unique video and audio from around the world. At the end of the promenade will be a large screen displaying a mix of this visual information.
Participants include:
Ipoh, Malaysia – Kamal Sabran
Brisbane, Australia – Rozina Suliman with LALITCS
Seoul, South Korea – Bo Kyung Suh
Santiago, Chile – Nicole Rademacher
Lagos, Nigeria – Emeka Ogboh
parallelflux.com/category/retrieving-humanity/
World Listening Day - July 18, 2010
World Listening Day is being organized by the World Listening Project, in partnership with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which Schafer directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.
The purposes of World Listening Day are:
To celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology.
To raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography.
To design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices.
Lagos Soundscapes listening party
Venue: Emeka's Studio.
Time: 3pm
Contact Emeka for more details...emeka{at}14thmay.com
http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=667
Video Art Festival Miden: July 8-10, 2010
Video Art Festival Miden is ready to strike again this summer inviting us on a journey to the visual universe of cotemporary global video-creation. An adventurous as much as delightful trip to the thoughts and quests of the avant-garde video-artists of the new generation who reflect the most sharp and interesting trends of contemporary art.
Festival Miden will take place at the traditional neighborhoods of Kalamata’s Historic Centre, at Amfias square, in July 8-10, 2010 (9.30 pm), with free entrance.
In its sixth realisation, more than 800 videos were submitted from every part of the world. During the three nights of the festival a selection of 181 videos will be presented, including tributes to foreign festivals and art-groups and interactive programs and installations.
Video Art Festival Miden Screening A (Main)
THE MONEYING OF LIFE
1. Tiziana Contino – Different by, 2010, Italy, 4:00
2. Anna Vasof – Global game, 2008, Austria, 1:16
3. Anna Vasof – 1-100, 2008, Austria, 3:25
4. Laura Mergoni – Tombola, 2009, Italy, 4:00
5. Svjetlan Junakovic – My Way, 2010, Croatia, 7:00
6. Hyeseung Yoo – We are Friends, 2010, South Korea, 2:23
7. Marius Tanasescu – Virtual counting money machine (1152 $), 2010, Canada, 1:24
8. Jan Verbeek – Counterparts, 2010, Germany-Japan, 8:43
9. Danijel Zezelj – A Different Bunny, 2010, USA, 2:29
10. Jonathan Johnson – Us Dollar Dead End, 2010, USA, 1:41
11. Anna Vasof – Ο χορός των Κοάλα, 2008, Austria, 2:10
12. Emeka Ogboh – JOS 2010, 2010, Nigeria, 9:10
http://www.festivalmiden.gr/deltiatypou_eng.html
URBANISTAS AHOY! 29-31 May 2010
The African Urbanism Colloquium is to be held in Cairo, Egypt from the 29-31 May 2010. The project, which commenced in April 2009, brings together a group of African urban theorists and artists who work on 'the everyday' as a way of building a new body of theory that can better capture the specificity of urbanism on the Continent. A number of additional contributors from the Sahel and Francophone Africa have been identified and will complement the existing participants.
Background
This project seeks to address the continued paucity of theoretical work on the nature and dynamics
of urbanism in African cities characterised by large swathes of informality and everyday
improvisation.
From this vantage point, this project of the ACC brings together a group of (African)
urbanists (planners, architects, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers) and
conceptual artists (visual and performance) who work on ‘everyday urbanism’ and related
epistemologies as a way of building a new body of theory that can better capture the specificity of
urbanism on the Continent.
The project commenced in April 2009 with a three‐day colloquium in
Cape Town and is envisaged to unfold over three years and culminate in a book and special issues of
journals. In addition, planning is underway to develop a more explicit cultural/artistic manifestation
associated with the project. The project is funded by the African Centre1 and articulates with related
projects they are driving forward.
Arte inVisible 2010
AECID - ARCOmadrid 2010,
IFEMA
Madrid, Spain
17 – 21 February, 2010.
Arte inVisible presents works exploring various strategies of re-appropriation and interpretation of public space; issues on identity, community and heritage —both tangible and intangible; and ways of doing that, while subverting official powers, bring visibility to forgotten aspects of those experiences, and their protagonists.
The project explores, alongside established disciplines such as photography or video, more fragile artistic formats that are situated in liminal areas, even marginal, of contemporary art and visual culture. This edition features a series of urban sound-scapes, caused by the introduction of new forms of global music, like hip-hop, but also those derived from the record of daily life routine. It observes different processes of intervention in the urban space through permanent media, such as architecture or specific artistic installations, or ephemeral creations, like graffiti. It incorporates new narratives and their uses of public space, such as comics, animation, or the most radical forms of street-performance.
Artists:
Aida Ashenafi, Tiago Borges Da Silva, Ramon Esono, Donna Kukama, Maha Maamoun, Michele Magema, Aida Muluneh, Emeka Ogboh, Micheal Tsegaye, Billie Zangewa
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Global Vilage Exhibitions, Netherlands,
23 January 2010.
The theme of Global Village is globalisation (like internet, media, mass consumption and climate change). We don't want a pro- or con-globalisation exhibition. We see globalisation as just there, with it's effects and opportunities (like this project). 55 artists from 5 continents show innovating art (like installation, video en digital art) about this theme.
While the artworks reflect globalisation in a broad spectrum, the exhibition set-up concentrates on the internet community (Global Village). We do this by mentioning at the exhibition (and in the catalogue), how we got in contact with that particular artist; via internet networks, from personal contact or others. In this way we map the real and virtual network.
Opening is on Saturday 23 January 2010 and the exhibition closes on Sunday 31 January 2010.
At the previews it is the same concept. Per preview a number of the 55 artists will exhibit an artwork.
Selected artists:
Africa:
Emeka Ogboh.
Asia:
Nindityo Adipurnomo, Play the Panorama-Siberia, Amir Zainorin.
Australia:
Annika Evans.
Europe:
Jeroen Bisscheroux, Michiel Voet en Jeroen van den Bosch, Pieter Borst, Edith van Campfort, Daniele Casaburi, Christine Clinckx, Sonja Cordemans, Loes van Dorp, dou ble you, Bjoern Eriksen, Anna Fairchild, Damiano Fasso, Louise Gains, Isabelle Grech, Sencer Gulun, Johanna Haagsman, Cecile van Hanja, Maceij Hoffman, Harun David Hosic, Regula Kaeser-Bonanomi, Ivo Kamphuis, Pia Lehmann, Fisher Lena, Harold Linker, Jessica Longmore, Albert van Loon, Robin van Maaren, Daniel Martin Bayon, Bill Millett, Els Moes, Remco Mooijekind, Pauline Nijenhuis, Jeroen van Paassen, Jonna Pedersen, Robert Pennekamp, Bea Peter, Hantzen Ploeger, Joan Priego, Gerwald Radsma, Olivier Rijcken en Hessel van Dokkum, Tim Robot Tom, Marga Rol, Pilar Roldan, Carlos Scaranci, Mi-hyun Sook, Ruud Starke, Lieke Tripaldelli, Wilma Vermeij, Victor Vidal, Cecile Wesolowski, John Williams, Nicholas Wright, Niels Zwiers, Marianne Zwollo en Riemer Kingma.
North-America:
Ilham Badreddine Mahfouz, Marc Barreda, Karrie Hovey, Mira Reiss, Bill Thomson Burnaby.
South-America:
Christina Ochoa
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Live! U.Mi-1 Vol 2. 13th Dec 2009
Live! U.Mi-1 Vol 2, held at the Little Saints Orphanage Lagos, sees the return of collaborating artist Megumi Matsubara with sound artist Emeka Ogboh. This workshop, the first of the second edition of the Live!U.Mi-1 program focuses on the art of Japanese shadow theatre, enacting the folklore "Tsuru no Ongaeshi".
Sponsored by the Japanese Foundation, Megumi visits Lagos for the first time and finally meets the children from the Orphanage who were introduced to her in Vol 1.
Live!U.Mi-1 is a cultural exchange program aimed at educating orphaned children in Japan and Nigeria through art workshops. Encouraging dialogue through art and giving the children a stimulating experience that can spur them to become future creatives is at the heart of the project. Each edition is made of two corresponding workshops, one in Lagos and one in Tokyo.
Live!U.Mi-1 is non-profit.
IDENTITY: AN IMAGINED STATE. 31st Oct - 28th Nov, 2009
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the first international exhibition of Video Art in Nigeria Identity:An Imagined State, which constitutes the final part of a year long focus on the medium. In fulfilment of our objectives to provide a platform for artistic diversity and experimentation, CCA,Lagos focused on a specific medium over a twelve month period hosting a one week video art workshop with One Minute Foundation and a two week workshop Linha Imaginaria conceived by Angolan Artist Miguel Petchkovsky and co-facilitated with Camerounian artist Goddy Leye and Brazilian Artist Eustaquio Neves.
Identity: An Imagined State, brings together for the first time works by twelve established and emerging artists of different cultural, geographic and social backgrounds from Nigeria, Africa, and South America. The works consider from both local and global perspective, the issues around identity in relation to Africa. As a point of departure, the exhibition explores associations with the label ‘African' and has been contextualized in a manner that reflects on, but without answering, ‘what or who is an African.' By exploring these themes the exhibition tells the story of belonging, displacement, uncertainty, visibility and negotiation through the medium of video art.
Participating artists include Jude Anogwih(NIG), Lucy Azubuike(NIG), Uchay Joel Chima(NIG), LucFosther Diop(CAM), Bouchra Khalili(MOR/FR), Vanessa Padilla(ECU), Thando Mama(SA), Grace Ndiritu(KEN/UK), Emeka Ogboh(NIG), Berni Searle(SA), Aicha Thiam(SEN) and Kemang Wa Lehulere(SA).