Twilight Protocols reroutes empire’s recursion through ritual, refusal, and rogue updates. A field manual for mythic healing, algorithmic sabotage, and sacred asymmetry.
Speculative in structure, these works alter the passing of time, re-imagining the past and projecting possible futures of African design.
Afropunk Festival, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigera 1982. The kids came dressed as cats, we don’t know why…
Classical computing is your proper British nanny: the stalwart anchor of Empire. Overseeing the regulation of the youth, precisely pruning the sensibilities of the future subjects of the Realm.
'Mute' is the first single off of Marilyn Carino's new album, 'Sister'. The song expresses the angst of a cultural transplant, her story of up and leaving downtown New York for the highlands of Scotland. At least that's how I envision it.
A short speculative meditation on dark chocolate, engaging with Japanese animist traditions and philosophical ideas from thinkers like Reza Negarestani and Michel Foucault.
Dangerous at Night is a piece of speculative cinema that explores and reverse engineers a future singularity arising from the collision of secret fraternities, social clubs, anarchy, and experimental christianity on Nigerian university campuses of the 1980s.
William Gibson once said “The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.” I’ve always reconfigured this idea as the future already having arrived, except we just don’t recognise it. So perhaps we don’t need new tech, just advanced perception. Don’t forget to smell the flowers.
West African history is reliant on oral traditions— something effectively wiped out by British missionaries in Nigeria. As such, my family line can only traced back two generations.The rest is fabulous tales of bird societies, sky kingdoms, and the ubiquitous (in West Africa), mama wata. What remained was for me was to take what old family photos in my possession, oral traditions, artefacts ...
An exercise in speculative genealogy, drawing upon the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence to spin a fabulous tale of bird societies.
The works in the Glittering Field will be exemplified by the tech of text and textiles; rites of osmosis; rites of communion; interspecies relays; interventions of Intelligence of various modalities. The show will be embedded in a subtly dynamic sound environment: the gallery itself transformed into a 24 hour streaming radio station for the duration of Berlin Artweek. The evening programs ...
Continuing the foray into the “Feline Uncanny”. Tension builds as the shapeshifting dream cats gather to what end, who knows?
Inspired by the uncanny glitchiness of nascent AI Animation, reminiscent of the urban ghost stories I grew up with in Nigeria, I have cobbled together a “theater of the uncanny” from my AI video experiments. With an assist from Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Something Wicked This Way Comes.