Online Lecture
Nzukota: Coming Together
With Emeka Okereke and Pamela Owusu-Brenyah
Movement as part of the exhibition Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground
Otobong Nkanga, Taste of a Stone, 2010–2020. Installationview Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2020 Photo: Laura Fiorio, Courtesy: the artist
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In Nzukota: Coming Together, Emeka Okereke and Pamela Owusu-Brenyah will animate a gathering in a section of Otobong Nkanga’s exhibition There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground at the Gropius Bau.
“Nzukota” is an Igbo language expression which translates to “coming together”. Nzukota will bring together individuals presently living, staying or visiting Berlin to reflect on their notion of “home” as it relates to the state of being “here and elsewhere” – a concept extensively engaged by the Martiniquan-French philosopher Édouard Glissant in his seminal work Poetics of Relation. Employing dialogue, readings and music, the gathering will create a discursive atmosphere for the weaving of anecdotes, stories and incidents, however fragmented, in connection to the space and disposition of the participants.