Emeka Ogboh

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Emeka Ogboh (born May 14, 1977 in Enugu ) is a Nigerian video , sound and eat art artist.

education

Emeka Ogboh graduated from the University of Nigeria with a degree in art in 2001 . He is co-founder of VAN (Video Art Network) Nigeria, a platform for the promotion of artistic activities in the field of new media in Nigeria. For years, Emeka Ogboh roamed through Lagos with recording devices , constantly creating new audio images and sound portraits of the megacity . He was influenced by the ubiquity of sounds described in Richard Leppert's essay Reading the Sonic Landscape .

Ogboh lives in Lagos and Berlin .

Sound artist

Ogboh works with the noises, the babble of voices, songs, calls, screams, and the rustle of a city. He also composes from songs and public speeches, which he incorporates into experimental pieces of music and sound installations. Auditory topographies of urbanity , politics and cultural diversity emerge . Song of the Germans is a sound installation by Ogboh that was realized at the Biennale di Venezia in 2015 . He confronts the listener with xenophobia and racism . Ogboh was invited to the DAAD's artist program in Berlin in 2015 and received the Art Prize on Böttcherstraße in Bremen in 2016 . For the Skulptur.Projekte 2017 he realized the sound installation Passage Through Moondog in the Hamburg tunnel at the main train station. For this he uses compositions by the musician Moondogs, who died in Münster, which Stefan Lakatos recorded with the Timba . With the concept of the soundscapes, Moondog and Ogboh share an interest in public space.

Eat-art artist

Ogboh recognizes the preparation of food and drinks as an identity-building practice that has been passed on through generations and by migrants.

Quit Storm beer

For the Skulptur.Projekte Munster in 2017 he left with Lime honey addition, collected from the on the promenade located Westerhoff meadow , Belgium beer brewing. During the fermentation process, the brewery's brewing tanks were exposed to special loudspeakers from the Lagos soundscape .

Sufferhead Original Stout Beer

Ogboh had 50,000 bottles of craft beer brewed for documenta 14 in Kassel . He asked Akrikaner about their taste experiences in order to create an acoustic map. That was the basis for the recipe. The name alludes to Fela Kuti's political anthem to initiate a discourse on how to deal politically with ethnic groups. The beer was advertised in Kassel with billboards, commercials and jingles.

Quote

“Even before entering the wood-lined room with the ten black loudspeakers, one is alienated. Ogboh's installation “The Song of the Germans” may sound harmonious, but the lyrics are incomprehensible. An accompanying book provides information: Members of a Berlin gospel choir made up of African migrants have translated the hymn and are singing it in Douala, Igbo, Ewondo, Bamun, Kikongo, Sango, More, Twi, Yoruba and Lingála. All indigenous African languages. Each speaker has a language, a voice. One begins, the others follow, each time a different idiom provides the impetus for choral singing. "

- Marie Luise Knott

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 2001: Oshodi, Lagos
  • 2011: ARS 11 Kiasma , Helsinki
  • 2012: State of Mind, Lagos
  • 2014: Dak'Art 2014 , Dakar
  • 2015: Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2016: Art Prize of Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2016 , Kunsthalle Bremen , Bremen
  • 2016: Emeka Ogboh, Song of the Germans , Kunsthalle Kiel , Kiel
  • 2016: THE INCANTATION OF THE DISQUIETING MUSE: On Divinity, Supra-Realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery , SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2017: Sculpture.Projects, Münster (Westphalia)
  • 2017: documenta 14 , Athens, Kassel
  • 2017/18: Emeka Ogboh. If Found Please Return to Lagos , State Art Gallery Baden-Baden

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anette Selg, Deutschlandradio Kultur Vielschichtige Klänge , accessed on March 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Institute for Foreign Relations Emeka Ogboh, Playback - The African Union: 20 to 20,000 Hz. Accessed on March 5, 2017
  3. ↑ Monopol Emeka Ogboh receives art prize from Böttcherstrasse , accessed on March 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ Marie Luise Knott, Tagesspiegel August 21, 2015 “Boñango bo be bwasam”, accessed on March 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Ogboh, Emeka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian video and sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Enugu (Nigeria)