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 reroutes empire’s recursion through ritual, refusal, and rogue updates. A field manual for mythic healing, algorithmic sabotage, and sacred asymmetry.
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.
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 ...
Speculative in structure, these works alter the passing of time, re-imagining the past and projecting possible futures of African design.
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 ...
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.
The fictional hijack of the Swiss financial system as a means of subverting the ongoing homogenisation of the Western imaginary.
The Curiously Dressed Gentleman, a Post-Nigerian Cross-Modal Fable featured at Basel Social Club during Art Basel.
The luminous movement behind the movement, invisible lines of flight made visible, culled from the archaic ethers of Isis, dim reflections of a defiant Nefertiti…
When excavating the roots of African diasporic trauma, one happens upon a mystical seam…The African Jetset series takes a shamanic twist, this retrospection is the future.
