8 月 26日 (SAT)– 9月 3日(SUN) 11: 00 – 17:00/ 免費參觀
地點/ Location：台電板橋新民大樓1樓/ 1F- Shin Min building
奈及利亞拉哥斯錄像網路組織單元/ Screening program of Video Art Network Lagos
Curator: Jude Anogwih
簡介/ Introduction
今日的全球民主國家及一些其他形式的政權的蓬勃發展相當倚賴技術和媒體的 方便取得性。媒體平台影響我們在當今全球公民之間的關係和生存方式。它的主導地位是顯而易見的，在某些情況下可能被視為侵略，跋扈以及有威嚇性的。它是一種煽動當代視覺建構的形式。
Jude Anogwih 拉格斯錄像藝術網創始人，策劃此次奈及利亞數位錄像單元。這些藝術家使用廣泛的主題及層次去開啟關於正在進行的社會政治和文化議題談論的新見解。藝術家們的作品反映了奈及利亞蓬勃發展的電影和電影文化意識不斷增強的另一個層面。此單元裡的作品揭露出令人嘆為觀止的視覺詩作為全球社會變遷的隱喻。它們是反映人類社會和生活環境真實寫照的典範。
Global democracies and some other forms of governance today rely and thrive strongly on the verse accessibility to technology and media. Media platforms impacting on the way we relate and survive as global citizens in this present-day. Its dominance is obvious and in some circumstances could be seen as invading, domineering and intimidating. It is a form that invites the construct of contemporary visuality.
Jude Anogwih - founding member, Video Art Network, Lagos, curates this selection of digital videos from Nigeria. The artists appropriate a wide range of topics and processes to open up fresh insights on ongoing discourses on sociopolitical and cultural issues. The artists’ works reflect another dimension of the growing consciousness of a thriving film and cinematic culture in Nigeria. The selected videos unearth plethoric visual poetries as metaphors of a shifting global society. They are manifesting paradigms that mirror the human society and living environment.
藝術家&作品/ List of artists & works:
Enoh Lienemann, Liquid Space, 5:22 , 2016
Enoh Lienemann, In My Head, 06:34, 2015
Ifeatu Nnaobi, ‘S’ is For Sparkly Eyes, 03:29, 2017
Ifeatu Nnaobi, I Want to Go Again, 02:25, 2017
Jude Anogwih, Pulsate, 02:50, 2014
Jude Anogwih, Viva Illusion?, 12:52, 2016
Uche Okpa-Iroha, Drink Spew Stains, 01:46, 2014
Uche Okpa-Iroha, Scavengers Alkaline Wash, 04:08, 2014
Emeka Udemba, In-between, 03:00, 2017
Emeka Udemba, Sing our praise, 08:10, 2017
Enoh Lienemann, Liquid Space, 5:22 , 2016
In Liquid Space, two persons are separated by a window and are observing each other. But although there is the glass between them, their lives are one. And permeate each other. The rain (water) is the liquid element, which is outside and inside of our bodies. It is the bearer of every life…
Enoh Lienemann, In My Head, 06:34, 2015
In My Head, time is the main element of the life of the traveling man. Time regarded as a period in which thoughts, decisions, and impressions can grow and melt together into something new. Migration firstly starts in the mind. It is not only a movement of refugees but also a process of everyday life, in which each person has to make a clear decision for or against something. To leave a situation, to select unknown ways, means to cut oneself out of things, places and habits. It brings uncertainty and emptiness and of course new life and possibilities.
Ifeatu Nnaobi, ‘S’ is For Sparkly Eyes, 03:29, 2017
This body of work is a journey through a (un)common phase of feminine sexuality. Female orgasm and achieving one, unfortunately, are contentious topics in both scientific and sociological discourses. Multifaceted and intertwined elements are engaged to re-visualize this ‘silent’ passage. In these videos, I simply elevate and chant its existence, an encouragement to women who take it into their own hands to probe the beauty of a pleasuring landscape. The videos ‘S’ is for Sparkly Eyes and I Want to Go Again illumine the feminine orgasm.
Ifeatu Nnaobi, I Want to Go Again, 02:25, 2017
This body of work is a journey through a (un)common phase of feminine sexuality. Female orgasm and achieving one, unfortunately, are contentious topics in both scientific and sociological discourses. Multifaceted and intertwined elements are engaged to re-visualize this ‘silent’ passage. In these videos, I simply elevate and chant its existence, an encouragement to women who take it into their own hands to probe the beauty of a pleasuring landscape. The videos ‘S’ is for Sparkly Eyes and I Want to Go Again illumine the feminine orgasm.
Jude Anogwih, Pulsate, 02:50, 2014
Pulsate is on the concept of merriment and its relationship to capitalism, plutocracy and aristocracy. These, according to the legendary musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, are in different active categories globally and particularly in Nigeria. Pulsate is one of a series of experimental videos, Wealthy Commons - an ongoing video project that would bring to focus the iconic and enchanting characteristic of Owambe or partying in Lagos, Nigeria - a former British colony and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Jude Anogwih, Viva Illusion?, 12:52, 2016
This is a story on the water - a shimmering, flowing driver – that has the fundamental impact on humanity. It conveyed explorers and invading slave masters as well as merchants, colonial and missionary governments on its soft and yielding belly. In its fluid transboundary space, it harbours a verse state of secrets and realities as it flows, connects and reflects rippling dynamics of our being. Its path charts age long patterns of imprints - nurturing and withering civilizations. It never forgets its past paths. Like matter and matrix, it brings healing and the crooked. Displaced populace look further towards its luring veil envisioning signals of succor and new stories of life. Viva Illusion? is a part of an ongoing body of work that reflects on persisting frequencies of furtive journeys on global water spaces.
Uche Okpa-Iroha, Drink Spew Stains, 01:46, 2014
The rain reveals the unseen in our environment and subsequently implicates human activities that impact negatively on our ecosystem. Every living thing has an impact on its space, therefore a human impact is inevitable.
Drink Spew Stains questions some of the human activities and practices that daily contribute to the gradual drive to human extinction.
Uche Okpa-Iroha, Scavengers Alkaline Wash, 04:08, 2014
Scavengers Alkaline Wash is a subtle exploration of an unspoken poverty mentality in our society, where contentment is the panacea. This is expressed outwardly as a kind of delusion of ‘have’ and ‘have not’ and also of a ‘show off’ in some instances. This project is a microscopic insight that humorously tries to isolate the after effect of this mentality linked to greed.
Emeka Udemba, In-between, 03:00, 2017
This work is among a set of explorative video works that appropriate images, symbols and forms in respond to history and location. It interrogates how these variables have become constitutive elements in our own identities.
Emeka Udemba, Sing our praise, 08:10, 2017
In this work, images become metaphors to debate and tackle real issues that matter to us.
You can’t go wrong
I can’t go wrong
We can’t go wrong
I woke up with expectations
We woke up with expectations
What should I do?
What should we do?
What must I do?
What must we do?
Every day we live
Sing our praise
Every day we sing our praise