Screening
Azubuike’s Women, get rid of this Monster (2011) focused on women’s physiology and psychology. The video exploring the challenges of fibroids as it affects a woman’s health; her access to health care and the gender bias she faces in her community. Ogunji’s My Father and I Dance in Outer Space (2011) connects the physical and metaphysical, thus reemphasising the Yoruba philosophy that death is not the end of life but rather a transition from one form of existence to another. Loco Metta I Fractual Scapes (2011) by Emeka Ogboh explores the multidimensionality of Lagos a postcolonial cosmopolitan city famous for its beautiful chaos and functional co-existence of traditional past and modern present – seamlessly performed by the city’s multicultural and multi-ethnic population (Lagosians). While Jude Anogwih combined photography, painting an video components in Dystopia (2011) to interpret Nigeria’s changing (eco)system since the discovery of oil ten decades ago.
The video works presented displayed a symbolic and literal as well as obvious and subliminal narrative of Nigerian society. The selection was chosen to provide a point of discourse on video and new media in practices of contemporary art in Africa.
Motions I Time I Space was organised by Video Art Network, Lagos with the kind support from the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos.
