Onyeka Igwe Explained

Onyeka Igwe
Birth Date:	1986
Birth Place:	London, UK
Nationality:	Nigerian British

Onyeka Igwe (born 1996), is a British-Nigerian artist, mostly working in film based media.^{[1] [2]}

Her works have been screened at MoMA, Black Radical Imagination, Institute of Contemporary Art (2017), Dhaka Art Summit (2020), London Film Festival 2015 and 2020, Open City Documentary Festival 2021 and 2022, Rotterdam International, Netherlands (2018–2020), Edinburgh Artist Moving Image (2016), Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival,^{[3] [4]} Images Festival (2019), Camden Arts Centre and Smithsonian African American film festival (2018).^[5]

Career

No Dance, No Palaver

No Dance, No Palaver is a short documentary shown in 2017 and 2018. The work received critical review as it told The Aba Women's Riots of 1929 and the "visual trauma of the colonial archive" and attempted "to transform the way in which we know the people it contains".^[6]

Recent works, 2019

The names have been changed, including my own and truths have been altered was a short story documented by Onyeka in 2019. It was a story about her grandfather told in four different ways. It was centered on African diaspora. In 2023, The Museum of West African Art headed Nigeria Pavilion which was curated at the 2024 Venice Biennale where Onyeka participated alongside Yinka Shonibare, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Fatimah Tuggar, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Precious Okoyomon and Abraham Oghobase.^[7]

Exhibitions

Onyeka's exhibition include:

• A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver), MoMA PS1, New York (2023)^[8]
• The Miracle on George Green, The High Line, New York, USA (2022)
• A so-called archive, LUX, London, UK
• THE REAL STORY IS WHAT'S IN THAT ROOM, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (2021)^[9]
• There Were Two Brothers, Jerwood Foundation (2019)^[10]
• Corrections, with Aliya Pabani, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada (2018).

Group exhibitions

They include:

• Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes, South London Gallery (2023)^[11]
• Echoes, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2022)^[12]
• Reconfigured, Timothy Taylor New York, USA (2021)^[13]
• Archives of Resistance, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria (2021)^[14]
• KW Production Series, Berlin, Germany (2020)^[15]
• New Labor Movements, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
• POST Colonial Bodies II, CC Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019)^[16]
• There's something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), London, UK (2018)^[17]
• World Cup!, Montreal, Canada (2018)^[18]

Filmography

• The Names Have Changed, Including My Own And Truths Have Been Altered (2019)
• Ungentle (directed in 2022)
• The Miracle on George Green^{[19] [20]}
• A So-Called Archive (2020)
• Specialised Technique (2018)
• Her Name in My Mouth (2017)
• Sitting on a Man (2018)
• We Need New Names (2015)
• A Radical Duet (2023)
• No Archive Can Restore You (2020)
• Congregations (2013)
• No Dance, No Palaver

Publications

• Book: Igwe, O.. 2021. Unbossed and Unbound: How Can Critical Proximity Transfigure British Colonial Moving Images?. United Kingdom. University of the Arts, London.
• Book: The Interjection Calendar 008. April 2023. United Kingdom. Montez Press. 9781838376086.
• Being Close To, With or Amongst, The Feminist Review (2020)
• Hiraeth, or Queering Time in Archives Otherwise (with JD Stokely), Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media (2019)
• Feature Interview with June Givanni^[21]
• Migrating Bodies^[22]

Awards and nominations

In 2022, Onyeka Igwe was nominated for the Jarman Award^[23] and Max Mara Art Prize for Women.^[24] In 2021, she won the Foundwork Artist Prize^[25] and the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film.^[26] In 2019, Onyeka won the Berwick New Cinema Awards at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.Alongside Seán Elder, Rebecca Moss and AJ Stockwell, She was listed by The Guardian as Also showing Exhibition of the week for Jerwood staging series.^[27]

References

Citations

• Web site: Onyeka Igwe, the Artist Exploring England's Social Histories . . Kate Wong. 2022.
• Web site: Art Monthly . Onyeka Igwe. Amy . Budd . 2020.
• Web site: Onyeka Igwe's the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered . Film Journal . Biema. Joshua. 2020.
• Web site: LUX . Onyeka Igwe's Archival Interventions . Bulley. Victoria Adukwei. Victoria Adukwei Bulley. 2020.
• Web site: Jerwood Staging Series . thisistomorrow.info . Hughes. Harriet Smith . 2019.
• Web site: A_N . A Q&A with...Onyeka Igwe, artist filmmaker exploring resistance to colonialism. Dyer. Sonya. 2018.
• Web site: International Film Festival Rotterdam January 24–February 4, 2018 . Art Agenda . Turner. Matt. 2018.

Further reading

• Book: Onyeka Igwe: The Real Story is What's in that Room. 2022. Canada. Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art. 9781926627571.
• Book: Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif. 2020. United Kingdom. 9781474428941. Baschiera. Stefano.
• Book: Museum und Ausstellung als gesellschaftlicher Raum: Praktiken, Positionen, Perspektiven. 2023. Germany. 9783839466681. Gau. Sønke. Sachs. Angeli. Sieber. Thomas.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Black Film British Cinema II. (2021). United Kingdom: MIT Press.
2. Web site: Onyeka Igwe . 25 January 2024 . onyekaigwe.com.
3. Web site: Larry Humber. 10 April 2021. Toronto's Contact Photography Festival expands its takeover of public spaces. 23 January 2024. The Art Newspaper. 9 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220809210242/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/04/10/torontos-contact-photography-festival-expands-its-takeover-of-public-spaces. live.
4. News: Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival opens 25th anniversary edition. ArtDaily-The First Art Newspaper on the Net. 24 January 2024. 24 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210524195215/https://artdaily.com/news/135270/Scotiabank-CONTACT-Photography-Festival-opens-25th-anniversary-edition. live.
5. Web site: Onyeka Igwe. Film London. 23 January 2024. 23 January 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240123181302/https://filmlondon.org.uk/profile/onyeka-igwe. live.
6. Web site: ARTIST ONYEKA IGWE BRINGS THE NIGERIAN ABA WOMEN'S WAR OF 1929 TO LIGHT. Ebony Magazine. 14 April 2023. 24 January 2024. 1 June 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601094434/https://www.ebony.com/artist-onyeka-igwe-brings-the-nigerian-aba-womens-war-of-1929-to-light/. live.
7. Web site: AINDREA EMELIFE TALKS TO FAD ABOUT MOWAA COLLABORATION WITH CHRISTIE'S FOR FRIEZE WEEK. Mark Westall. 11 October 2023. 24 January 2024. fad magazine. 15 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231115050640/https://fadmagazine.com/2023/10/11/aindrea-emelife-talks-to-fad-about-mowaa-collaboration-with-christies-for-frieze-week/. live.
8. Web site: ONYEKA IGWE, A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver) March 16 – August 21, 2023. momaos1.org. 5 January 2024. 2 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231002145911/https://www.momaps1.org/programs/182-onyeka-igwe. live.
9. Web site: Onyeka Igwe: The Real Story Is What's In That Room. mutualart.com. 21 January 2024.
10. Web site: There Were Two Brothers. 24 January 2024. 27 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220927003159/https://jerwoodarts.org/exhibitionsandevents/events/jerwood-staging-series-2019-onyeka-igwe-there-were-two-brothers/. live.
11. Web site: South London presents 'Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimige to the Lakes'. 29 June 2023. artafricamagazine.com. 30 December 2023. 4 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231004124536/https://artafricamagazine.org/south-london-presents-lagos-peckham-repeat-pilgrimige-to-the-lakes/. live.
12. Web site: Echoes. 24 January 2024. 30 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230330023950/https://www.hausderkunst.de/en/exhibitions/echoes. live.
13. Web site: Reconfigured. timothytaylor.com. 21 January 2024.
14. Web site: Archives of Resistance and Repair – kuveti – artists association tyrol. 24 January 2024. 29 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230929043016/https://www.kuenstlerschaft.at/en/exhibition/archives-of-resistance/. live.
15. Web site: Donation Outset: KW Production Series at Museum Abteiberg. mutualart.com.
16. Web site: Muntref. 24 January 2024. 4 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230204085050/http://untref.edu.ar/muntref/en/noticias/muntref-joins-the-international-film-festival/. live.
17. Web site: The Showroom there's something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (A title). The Showroom. 24 January 2024. 2 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231002233827/https://www.theshowroom.org/exhibitions/theres-something-in-the-conversation-that-is-more-interesting-than-the-finality-of-a-title. live.
18. Web site: World Cup!. articule.org. 24 January 2024. 10 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200210063415/http://www.articule.org/en/projects/world-cup. live.
19. Web site: Onyeka Igwe, the Artist Exploring England's Social Histories. An Other Magazine. 23 May 2022. 15 January 2024. 10 June 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230610085741/https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/14105/onyeka-igwe-artist-new-york-high-line-interview. live.
20. Web site: HIGH LINE ART PRESENTS ONYEKA IGWE'S FILM THE MIRACLE ON GEORGE GREEN. thecitylife.org. 5 May 2022. 24 January 2024. 1 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221201174529/https://thecitylife.org/2022/05/04/high-line-art-presents-onyeka-igwes-film-the-miracle-on-george-green/. live.
21. MIRAJ Vol.6, Spring 2018
22. NON Periodical Vol. 1, Spring 2016Rearviews, C Magazine, 2015
23. Web site: The Jarman Award 2022. film London. 24 January 2024. 16 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221216133008/https://filmlondon.org.uk/flamin/the-jarman-award/jarman-award-2022. live.
24. Web site: SHORTLIST OF ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2022-2024 MAX MARA ART PRIZE FOR WOMEN. Roman Lugassy. 27 October 2022. 24 January 2024. 24 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230924111617/https://www.happening.media/category/magazine/en/news/635a400659952d1fda9e7677/shortlist-of-artists-announced-for-2022-2024-max-mara-art-prize-for-women. live.
25. Web site: Onyeka Igwe Interview by Rianna Jade Parker. Foundwork Artist Prize. 24 January 2024. 24 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220824155113/https://foundwork.art/dialogues/onyeka-igwe. live.
26. Web site: Onyeka Igwe Fellow in 2020 for Experimental Short Film. artsfoundation.co.uk. 24 January 2024. 28 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220528193052/https://artsfoundation.co.uk/directory/onyeka-igwe/. live.
27. Web site: Bowling ball necklaces and legless ladies – the week in art. Jonathan Jones. Jonathan Jones (journalist). 30 August 2019. The Guardian. 24 January 2024. 3 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191203112626/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/aug/30/the-week-in-art-peter-doig. live.