Emeka Ogboh
www.14thmay.com/
           
   
Lagos, Nigeria
   
 

My art explores various structures in the human material and mental worlds along the line of hegemony, homogeneity, destabilization, chaos, uniformity, dogma, serenity and power. The character of third world cities, particularly Lagos, Nigeria, holds a huge fascination for me with regard to how it morphs temporality and spatiality. The architectonic of Lagos as a mega city, for example, opens up questions on cultural narcissism, third world mobility and globalization processes. By fusing art and technology in my new media interventions, I effect a constructive dialogue with the various facets of the third world city and offer a critical insight on the pulse of the city. My creative templates mainly include sound, video and photography.

website: http://www.14thmay.com/
email: emeka@14thmay.com

My Thoughts on Urban Dialogues

Globalization redefined...different spaces and time, different cities, different cultures, different artists and one project.

 
 
     
 

Bio

Emeka a Nigerian new media artist who works mainly with sound and video and has variously explored the soundscape of Lagos, Nigeria to affect a constructive dialogue between its physicality and it’s imagining.

Emeka is the co-founder of the Video Art Network Lagos, a member of the African Centre for Cities project on African Urbanism, the Locus Sonus international streaming project, and also an affiliate of the Centre of Contemporary Arts Lagos. He has participated in international exhibitions and new media workshops both in Nigeria and internationally. His works have been featured at the One Minutes exhibition at the Venice biennale 2009; Arte invisible pavilion at ARCO Madrid 2010; and Identity: An Imagined State at Centre of Contemporary Arts Lagos 2009 amongst others.

 
 
     
   
     
     
 
 
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