10
July
Code-Switch: Icons & Inheritance
ART, MEMORY, RYTHM, RESISTANCE, SOUND, STORY, SPIRIT
10
July
Code-Switch: Icons & Inheritance
ART, MEMORY, RYTHM, RESISTANCE, SOUND, STORY, SPIRIT
24
May
Computer Village
ART, SONIC ECHOES OF ELECTRONIC REMAINS, E-WASTE, GLOBAL CONSUMPTION, ELECTRONIC WASTE
Computer Village is a sound piece that explores the afterlife of technology and its sonic residues created by computer and electronic remains. The piece listens closely to the silent collapse and reanimation of machines that defined our digital age. By centering e-waste not just as environmental debris but as a sonic archive of global consumption. Computer Village borrows its title from one of Africa’s largest technology markets and an unofficial processing center for global electronic waste. It transforms discarded electronics into a ghostly chorus of industrial ruin.
24
May
Computer Village
ART, SONIC ECHOES OF ELECTRONIC REMAINS, E-WASTE, GLOBAL CONSUMPTION, ELECTRONIC WASTE
E-Waste, Global Consumption
Computer Village is a sound piece that explores the afterlife of technology and its sonic residues created by computer and electronic remains. The piece listens closely to the silent collapse and reanimation of machines that defined our digital age. By centering e-waste not just as environmental debris but as a sonic archive of global consumption. Computer Village borrows its title from one of Africa’s largest technology markets and an unofficial processing center for global electronic waste. It transforms discarded electronics into a ghostly chorus of industrial ruin.
08
March
Water No Get Enemy Shifting Sands, Rising Tides 2023 – 2025
ART, LAND RECLAMATION, COASTAL COMMUNITIES, SONIC DIALOGUE.
Lagos is a city in constant negotiation with water. The Atlantic presses against its shores, while inland, lagoons weave through its urban fabric. Yet, in this restless dialogue between land and water, power is unevenly distributed. The ongoing land reclamation efforts in Bar Beach, Makoko, Iyana Oworo and Oko Baba epitomize a paradox: the pursuit of progress through the erasure of communities that have long thrived with and on water. Water No Get Enemy is an immersive sound piece that examines the ongoing land reclamation in waterfront communities in Lagos where water is both a home and a battleground…
08
March
Water No Get Enemy Shifting Sands, Rising Tides 2023 – 2025
ART, LAND RECLAMATION, COASTAL COMMUNITIES, SONIC DIALOGUE.
Lagos is a city in constant negotiation with water. The Atlantic presses against its shores, while inland, lagoons weave through its urban fabric. Yet, in this restless dialogue between land and water, power is unevenly distributed. The ongoing land reclamation efforts in Bar Beach, Makoko, Iyana Oworo and Oko Baba epitomize a paradox: the pursuit of progress through the erasure of communities that have long thrived with and on water. Water No Get Enemy is an immersive sound piece that examines the ongoing land reclamation in waterfront communities in Lagos where water is both a home and a battleground…
13
March
Black Market
ART, SCARCITY, SOCIETY, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, VIDEO PEICE
Nigeria ranks as Africa’s largest producer of oil and the sixth-largest oil-producing country in the world With a maximum crude oil production capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day. Nigeria has a greater potential for gas than oil. Nigeria’s gas production in the year 2000 was approximately 1,681.66 billion scf, 1,3715 billion scf was associated with gas and the rest 310.16 billion was non associated gas, with a maximum crude oil production capacity per day, fuel scarcity is not new to Nigerians, it as a child knows a toy by AutoReportNG, May 23, 2020.
13
March
Black Market
ART, SCARCITY, SOCIETY, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, VIDEO PEICE
Nigeria ranks as Africa’s largest producer of oil and the sixth-largest oil-producing country in the world With a maximum crude oil production capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day. Nigeria has a greater potential for gas than oil. Nigeria’s gas production in the year 2000 was approximately 1,681.66 billion scf, 1,3715 billion scf was associated with gas and the rest 310.16 billion was non associated gas, with a maximum crude oil production capacity per day, fuel scarcity is not new to Nigerians, it as a child knows a toy by AutoReportNG, May 23, 2020.
02
March
Adashi, No Packing
ART, GAMBLING, CULTURE, SOUND, ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Gambling seems to be rather a different hobby, a common and well-regulated pastime in most corners of the world. In 2020, the global gambling market had an estimated size of $443 billion, that is about $50 billion more than Nigeria’s gross domestic product and is predicted to rise by $200 billion in the next seven years ‘Gambling Statistics in Nigeria’ The Nation Newspaper, December 29, 2020.
02
March
Adashi, No Packing
ART, GAMBLING, CULTURE, SOUND, ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Gambling seems to be rather a different hobby, a common and well-regulated pastime in most corners of the world. In 2020, the global gambling market had an estimated size of $443 billion, that is about $50 billion more than Nigeria’s gross domestic product and is predicted to rise by $200 billion in the next seven years ‘Gambling Statistics in Nigeria’ The Nation Newspaper, December 29, 2020.
01
October
Table of Paradox
ART, HISTORY, SOUND
Table of Paradox is a body of work that takes an introspective look at the history of Nigeria since the attainment of self-rule, and metaphorically unravels how her historic past, embodied by hopefulness and freedom from dependent rule, expresses itself on the modern- day.
01
October
Table of Paradox
ART, HISTORY, SOUND
Table of Paradox is a body of work that takes an introspective look at the history of Nigeria since the attainment of self-rule, and metaphorically unravels how her historic past, embodied by hopefulness and freedom from dependent rule, expresses itself on the modern- day.
05
January
Let’s Turn Time on the Table
ART, MULTIMEDIA, HISTORY
Let’s Turn Time on the Table is a multimedia body of work that revisit history. It probes into Nigeria’s historical past using highlife music as a takeoff point to explore its place in her history given its social, political and economic significance during the struggle for independence and the period of the civil war. These sound highlights some events in the socio-political space 1960 – 1980, bring to fore the effect of the music in the formation of identity and nationhood.
05
January
Let’s Turn Time on the Table
ART, MULTIMEDIA, HISTORY
Let’s Turn Time on the Table is a multimedia body of work that revisit history. It probes into Nigeria’s historical past using highlife music as a takeoff point to explore its place in her history given its social, political and economic significance during the struggle for independence and the period of the civil war. These sound highlights some events in the socio-political space 1960 – 1980, bring to fore the effect of the music in the formation of identity and nationhood.