2026 HAS ARRIVED

2026 is here—and so is Africans Abroad, Volume 2. Rooted in the principles of the African Jetset series, this body of work retrofits the future, staging images of Africans luxuriating in the wealth, health, and imaginative freedom of a continent allowed to flourish on its own terms. It gestures toward an alternate universe—one where the devastations of colonialism and extractivism have been ...

THE NETWORKED MUSEUM: LESSONS FROM FINDING NEMO

This talk was presented at CIMAM 2025 in Turin, Italy. 0. THE BIG BLUE Recently, on a transatlantic flight, I rewatched the Pixar classic, Finding Nemo.  I’d never actually finished it before — the premise gave me too much anxiety:  A clownfish named Marlin loses his son Nemo to a scuba diver’s net, and decides he’s going to cross the entire ocean to find him.  I remember ...

A Parable (About Quantum Computing)

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.

Twilight Protocols for Gehenna

Twilight Protocols reroutes empire’s recursion through ritual, refusal, and rogue updates. A field manual for mythic healing, algorithmic sabotage, and sacred asymmetry.

MUTE

'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.

Bitterness: A Manifesto (excerpt)

A short speculative meditation on dark chocolate, engaging with Japanese animist traditions and philosophical ideas from thinkers like Reza Negarestani and Michel Foucault.

Sketches / Studies for ‘Dangerous at Night’

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.

Orchids

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.

Glittering Witness

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 ...

Excerpt: ‘Society of the Birds’

An exercise in speculative genealogy, drawing upon the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence to spin a fabulous tale of bird societies.

ONOME EKEH: ESPECULACIONES

Speculative in structure, these works alter the passing of time, re-imagining the past and projecting possible futures of African design.

THE GLITTERING FIELD

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 ...
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