#Emeka Ogboh

[luckyacid]

Emeka Ogboh The Way Earthly Things Are Going, 2017 Multi-channel sound installation Installation view, Tate Modern, 2017

[kunthug]

i really tried to transport myself back. Lagos, I miss u.

[philosophenstreik]

black artists now

von el anatsui bis kara walker

sachbuch von ann mbuti

erschienen 2022

im verlag c.h.beck

isbn: 978-3-406-78801-7

(von tobias bruns)

der westliche kunstkanon ist tatsächlich sehr beschränkt... schaut man sich in den museen europas um, so sind dort vor allem werke von alten weißen männern präsent... sie dominieren alles, haben hre eigenen museen, einige wenige frauen dürfen auch dabei sein, wie paula modersohn-becker, eine der wenigen frauen, der ein museum gewidmet wurde. auch frida kahlo ist dabei und einige wenige andere. doch allgemein scheint die kunstwelt nicht viel mehr zu bieten zu haben... doch weit gefehlt - die kunst setzt sich aus unzähligen stimmen zusammen, stimmen von frauen, männern, stimmen jedweder ethnien, religionen, gender und sexuellen vorlieben. ann mbuti widmet dieses buch nun den stimmen schwarzer künster/-innen, die extrem stark sind und doch weiterhin nicht unbedingt in den etablierten kunstkanon eindringen, was auch immer dieser heute noch für eine bedeutung hat, in einer welt, in der kunst schon lange nicht mehr nur in museen, galerien oder privaten sammlungen stattfindet. ann mbuti stellt in ihrem buch black artists now 15 verschiedene schwarze künstler/innen aus aller herren länder - von ghana über brasilien, von frankreich nach nigeria,... - vor, deren stimmen laut vernehmbar sind und unbedingt teil des allgemeinen kunstdiskurses sein sollten, ihren weg in die offiziellen lehrpläne von schulen finden sollten, in die offiziellen lehrpläne der kunsthochschulen und akademien... ann mbuti hat “ein buch geschrieben, das sie als jugendliche selbst gern gelesen hätte” - zurecht, und sie ist mit sicherheit nicht die einzige, der es so geht oder ging. vielen der von ihnen beschriebenen künstler/-innen sind auf ihrem weg durch das studium der künste an hochschulen und in der schule ausschließlich künstler/-innen europas und nordamerikas - meist eben alte weiße männer - vorgestellt worden. gerade so, als existiere nur hier kunst, als wäre nur das, was im “westen” produziert wurde tatsächliche kunst. die großen künstlerischen traditionen asiens oder afrikas werden weitestgehend übergangen, ausgeblendet, nicht als kunst angesehen... auch damit will ann mbuti mit ihrem buch aufräumen. zu recht und auf wunderbare weise. 15 starke und beeindruckende künstler/-innen stellt sie in ihrem buch vor, ihren lebensweg, ihren weg zur kunst, ihren weg in der kunst, ihre bedeutung für die kunst. das ganze wird kongenial illustriert von sumuyya khader. es ist dadurch nicht nur ein längst überfälliges und toll geschriebenes buch, welches mit sicherheit um hunderte weitere menschen angereichert werden könnte (mbuti beschäftigt sich hier allerdings eher mit zeitgenössischen und lebenden künstler/-innen), sondern auch noch ein augenschmaus! ein muss für jeden, dem die kunst am herzen liegt.

[seanmorroww]

Emeka Ogboh - “Wole”

6°30’33​.​372”N 3°22’0​.​66”E [Danfotronics, 2022]

[radiophd]

emeka ogboh -- verbal drift

[zaphmann]

In Memory of John Peel Show 220812 Podcast & Playlist

In Memory of John Peel Show 220812 Podcast & Playlist

Fern Maddie Traveling without Moving! This show criss-crosses the globe to bring you the latest and best new music outside the mainstream https://radiopublic.com/in-memory-of-john-peel-show-6nVPd6/s1!00e9c >> the best new music, independent of the industry system – back this show on patreon Paypal to zaph@zaphmann.com heard in over 90 countries via independent stations (RSS)Pod-Subscribe for free…

[dinnickhowellslikes]

From the Five Radio Stations website: Lab’Bel presents Five Radio Stations, a group show comprising five artworks that are also radio stations. Listen to them via this website by clicking ‘play’ on any of the five station pages, or seek out a dedicated listening location. The works can be enjoyed like any radio station, as a focus or in the background, and for a shorter or longer duration of time. Although they are automated, the stations are not on-demand but streamed as live, meaning each listener hears the same thing at the same time as an invisible community of other people.

Five Radio Stations is available from 21 October 2023 until 21 March 2024.

Commissioned artists for the project are as follows: Keren Cytter, Benedikt H. Hermannsson, Hylozoic/Desires, Daniel John Jones and Seb Emina, and Emeka Ogboh.

Five Radio Stations is curated by Seb Emina and Silvia Guerra

[artcentron]

(via Ojuelegba Comes Alive in Emeka Ogboh's Multisensory Installation)

Emeka Ogboh’s multisensory installation captures the vibrant essence of Ojuelegba with a captivating blend of art, music, and culture, immersing visitors in a dynamic fusion of visual and auditory experiences.

[zef-zef]

Emeka Ogboh

source: digicult

[voskhozhdeniye]

Musical Obsessions 2022

Afrorack: The Afrorack

Aphex Twin‘s Radiator (Original Mix)

Arbiter‘s Clarity

Ari Lennox’s Pressure

The Belltower’s Plastic Man

Beyoncé: RENAISSANCE*

Bill Orcutt: Music For Four Guitars

Björk: fossora

Boards of Canada‘s 1969

Bob Moses’ Love Brand New

Bobby Timmons‘ Moanin

Chat Pile: God’s Country*

Coil, lots of Coil.

Cold Gawd: God Get Me the Fuck Out of Here

Conway the Machine‘s John Woo Flick & Stressed

Daniel Rossen: You Belong There

David Axelrod‘s The Human Abstract & The Fly

Depeche Mode‘s In Your Room

Dexter Gordon‘s Cheese Cake

Don Cherry: Brown Rice

Earth: Earth 2

Emeka Ogboh: 6°30′33.372″N 3°22′0.66″E

Eric Dolphy: Out There*

Fivio Foreign’s What’s My Name

Gnod: Hexen Valley

God Body Disconnect: Spiral of Grief

Grachan Moncur III*

Hainbach: Core Memory

James Nasty’s Don’t Stop

Kae Tempest‘s Salt Coast

Kilo Kish: AMERICAN GURL

Kristofer Maddigan‘s Funfair Fever

Lovesliescrushing, lots of Lovesliescrushing*

Mario Lino Stancati‘s Torna a sparire

Pan Daijing: Tissues

Paradise Blossom: Sunset Getaway

PJ Harvey, lots of PJ Harvey

Pusha T: It’s Almost Dry

Rachika Nayar: Heaven Come Crashing

The Smile’s Open The Floodgates, Waving A White Flag & Skrting On The Surface*

Sondra Sun-Odeon‘s Desyre & Hit

Sonic Youth: Washing Machine*

Sonny Sharrock*

Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down

Yellow Swans, lots of Yellow Swans*

Youth Valley: Youth Valley EP

Zola Jesus’s Sewn

Bold and italicized indicates a favorite released this year.

The Beyoncé, Chat Pile, Emeka Ogboh and God Body Disconnect albums are my favorites from the year. The Daniel Rossen album gets a special mention for being beautiful, and sounding like Yellow House part 2. According to my Last.fm, I listened to more music this year than I did last year. I said I wasn’t going to do that, but oh well. I listened to over 50 albums from this year. That list only mentions 18 of them.

I have pretty much stopped listening to commercial radio. Ari, Fivio and Bob Moses are the only things I heard on the radio I liked this year.

The last two years have been me casting a rather large net, and seeing what I found that I liked. This year has been me exploring artists adjacent to the ones I learned about and fell in love with over these past two years. Then there was my desire to really dive deeper into jazz this year. While I’m sure that’s going to continue, because there’s just so much to explore. Next year I want to start digging through all of the electronic albums the synth bros swear are the most important albums ever made.

Beyoncé: Very early into getting into synths I realized that most of the synth forums are populated by obnoxious cis white heterosexual dudes. A guy I follow on Youtube made a video about his interactions with them a year or two ago. They are very closed minded. They do not respect artists of color, women, the usual shit. When Aphex Twin picks up an 808, it’s the greatest thing of all time. When Beyoncé or Metro Boomin pick up an 808 or Pharmakon uses her modular, that’s not music. The fact that RENAISSANCE explicitly culls its influences from Black dance music throughout the past 50 years has made listening to it the most fun I’ve had this year. If you’ve listened to any of the patches I’ve uploaded in the past 6 months, you’ll hear there’s been an influence.

Chat Pile: That’s what living in America feels like right now. Watching shit collapse around you.

Eric Dolphy: My first jazz albums were A Kind of Blue and other late fifties early sixties Miles albums. They all sound like what I expected jazz to sound like. It took me moving on to seventies Miles and finally late Coltrane for me to come back to those sixties albums. I’ve expanded what I listen to since then, but I really wanted this year to be the year I really went searching for jazz that scratched an itch the way I do for other styles. This was the year it really hit me that I’ll never get to hear all the music I’ll ever want to hear. There’s a sub genre of jazz named third stream, it attempts to meld classical and jazz together into a new genre. I’m not sure if he was actively attempting to do this while he was alive, but his music has become an example of the style. This is just a gorgeous, haunting album.

Grachan Moncur III: A completely different style of jazz compared to Dolphy. Moncur‘s style was incredibly moody and atmospheric. Him, Mingus and Alan Shorter are my favorite jazz composers I’ve stumbled upon so far. Moncur was basically my guiding light this year. After finding his bandleader work, I started to look for albums that had him as a sideman and composer. That would introduce me to other soloist I enjoyed, and then I’d start getting into them. Rinse and repeat. So my favorite thing this year is learning to actually pay attention to who composed a song, and using that to open doors. My favorite jazz song is Mephistopheles, the last track on Wayne Shorter‘s The All Seeing Eye. I learned his brother Alan wrote it years ago, and that’s how I got into Alan’s music. This year has just been me taking that idea to the extreme. When I say this is the most music I’ve ever listened to in a year. I mean it......

Lovesliescrushing: Cough Syrup Shoegaze

The Smile: Every album Thom has worked on over the last decade has had an unreleased Radiohead song on it. Radiohead were the last band I super obsessed over when that was a thing I did. They’ve played a lot of these songs live, so I know and have heard them many, many, many times. I’ve known Skrting On The Surface for a decade now. It was my favorite of the unreleased songs. Skrting On The Surface has become another in a line of songs where I prefer the live version to the album version. Of course I can always look them up on Youtube, but everybody hears the album version. Who is looking up a poorly shot video with pristine audio of a unreleased Radiohead song from 2008. As a side note, this has ruined Swans’ To Be Kind and The Glowing Man for me. Those pre album live versions destroy the studio versions. The way The Seer, She Loves Us and Bring The Sun feel like bombs live. Michael was having rips of Not Here/Not Now pulled off of Youtube back when it came out. They sold it as a way to fund recording To Be Kind, but if you ever get a chance to hear that.... The live version of Avatar rearranged my DNA back in 2012.

Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth remind me of Miles Davis. I got Goo and Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star years ago, and just did not like them. I love Tunic, and that’s the only thing from them I would listen to. I kept hearing people talking about how amazing they were. Eventually I asked a mutual what albums they were listening to. He said he hated Goo and Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star too. He pointed me in the direction of Bad Moon Rising. I liked that and started moving forward. I picked up Washing Machine this year. If only I had started there........

Sonny Sharrock: Damn, damn, damn, damn!

Yellow Swans: I am typing this in late September. Right now I’m making beat heavy music with the Digitone and Syntakt, but in my dreams I make noise and drone.

I have not chosen what albums are going in the car next year. I usually choose months, if not years, yes years, in advance. I’m going to wing it next year.

Last year’s list.

[ogendigbo]

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by OGENDIGBO (@oge_ndigbo)

Lagos, Peckham Repeat - A Pilgrimage to Lakes” - South London Gallery

📌featuring artists Emeka Ogboh, Ndidi Dike, Christopher Obuh, Onyeka Igwe & @Chiizii

#igboamaka#eventsinlondon#lagospeckhamrepeat

[kunthug]

1-6: glenn ligon, lorna simpson, emeka ogboh, tiona nekkia mcclodden, karl ohiri, kelani abass.

[sonmelier]

54. Emeka Ogboh | 6°30’33.372”N 3°22’0.66”E

🇳🇬 Nigeria | Danfotronics | 46 minutes | 8 morceaux 

L’artiste pluridisciplinaire nigérian Emeka Ogboh restitue de manière saisissante le chaos urbain de Lagos, zoomant tout particulièrement sur la gare routière d’Ojuelegba – dont il tire des enregistrements de terrain extrêmement denses en bruits et en paroles (prononcées en pidgin). Tout ce vacarme désordonné est fondu dans une trame sonore puissamment hypnotique et paradoxalement apaisante (!) 

https://emekaogboh.bandcamp.com/track/ayilara