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Her Name in My Mouth

Invoking a lineage of female ancestors through embodiment, gesture and the archive, Her Name in My Mouth reimagines the Aba Women’s War, a major anti-colonial

Sitting on a Man

Traditionally, women in Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria, came together to protest the behaviour of men by sitting on or making war on them by

Grain

‘Grain’ (2016) is a portrait of Anna Halprin’s Mountain Home Studio built by her husband and environmental architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009). A voiceover from Daria

Eustatic Drift

“once we were plankton slouched in the oceanbut now we are code,surfaced and held in the laminae of rock like open scores ”This narrative voice

Totally on Fire

Totally on Fire is a conversation across time that restages an exercise from the Esalen Institute, California in the grounds of the secular community Braziers

x comme x

x comme x is a text-based film which imagines cross-temporalities that extend from the contemporaneous, in which we hear incarnate words speak to the deep

Correspondência um

Correspondência um. is a collaboration with dance artist Susanne Mayer, taking its title from a year long correspondence and studio practice. The choreography for this

Nature Nurture (sketch)

Nature/nurture sketch is a video performance that looks at cross-cultural translation soundtracked by drum ’n’ bass. It is an attempt to give language to a

contoured thoughts

Contoured Thoughts is a meditation on desire, recovery and the rituals of communion. A guide and conspirator alike, Ifekoya takes the viewer to another realm

Nurses

‘Nurses’ 2019 brings together research around the close readings of bodies in relation to diagnostic narratives, queer reproduction and pleasure. Within it the creation, distribution

The Zombie Diaries

The Zombie Diaries is loosely framed as the testimony of a new mother becoming a zombie. Filmed over two years we see her child age,

South

Taking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, ‘South’ presents an expressionistic investigation of

Two

Two uses a female erotic gaze to look for places where love might be found in contemporary life and to explore what might constitute supportive,

Home

A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses

What Weakens The Flesh Is The Flesh Itself

Chicago-based Steve Reinke and Berlin-based James Richards may be artists separated by twenty years of age and the Atlantic Ocean, but they share a fascination

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