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Emeka Ogboh: Tuesday, March 11, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.
Join us in person for a lecture by artist Emeka Ogboh followed by an audience Q&A.
Emeka Ogboh is an artist whose practice engages places through a multisensory approach, incorporating sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. His installations and culinary projects weave sensory elements into transformative experiences, reinterpreting private, public, and collective memories. Ogboh’s work explores themes of migration, globalization, and post-colonialism, examining how sensory perception shapes our connection to the world. Recently, he expanded into music, debuting with the album Beyond the Yellow Haze on the label A-TON in 2021, followed by 6°30′33.372″N 3°22′0.66″E on his label Danfotronics in 2022. His work has been exhibited at major international venues, including documenta 14, Skulptur Projekte Münster, the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale.
Presented in partnership with Goethe-Institut Chicago and SAIC's Department of Art and Technology / Sound Practices
Emeka Ogboh. Photo: Oliver Mark
Emeka Ogboh: Life in a Bottle
Martin Herbert | ArtReview | June 6, 2024
New beer from Emeka Ogboh
Laura Ewert | monopol | April 17, 2024
Sipping on stories: Emeka Ogboh crafts politics into gin
Coline Milliard | Art Basel | February 13, 2024
Tap Takeover Returns With An Artistic Fusion Beer
Ldn-Post | London Post | September 20, 2023
Emeka Ogboh: The City is the Composer
Joseph Francis | Ableton | April 25, 2023
Emeka Ogboh - 6°30'33.372
Joseph Francis | RA | August 12, 2022
Emeka Ogboh turns the soundscapes of Lagos into profound explorations of time
Christine Kakaire | Crack Magazine | July 18, 2022
“What is Hidden, what is Revealed:” On Symbols, Metaphors, and Colonial Trauma
Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi | Emeka Ogboh | January 5, 2022
Emeka Ogboh – interview: ‘I want listeners to be transported to Lagos. I want them to feel what it is like to be in those spaces’
David Trigg | studio international | August 11, 2021
Emeka Ogboh’s Hymn to a New Europe
Jane Ure-Smith | Frieze | July 26, 2021
EMEKA OGBOH: “IT IS PRETTY MUCH CACOPHONOUS OUT THERE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT FEELS LIKE MUSIC BEING COMPOSED BY THE CITY”
Thomas Venker | Kaput Magazine | February 23, 2021
In the Studio: Emeka Ogboh, Berlin
Julia Rosenbaum | Collectors Agenda | no date
Ask The Artist: Emeka Ogboh
OpenLab News | No Date | Please note this platform does not provide transcripts
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EXHIBITION "ABJ" BY EMEKA OGBOH
Emeka Ogboh researches migration with the senses in his audiovisual installation "ABJ" in Abidjan. Previously on view January 9–May 26, 2024.
Emeka Ogboh’s Lagos State of Mind III
This installation brings together field recordings made by the artist in these two cities, both of which he’s called home, over the past decade. Previously on view December 22, 2022–August 6, 2023.
Emeka Ogboh / Song of the Union
Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival unveiled a new sound installation by artist Emeka Ogboh at Edinburgh’s Burns Monument from July 29–August 29, 2021.
Visiting Artists Program Lecture Recordings from the Archive
SAIC Visiting Artists Program video and audio lecture recordings (1977–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.
SAIC Digital Collections: Visiting Artists Program
SAIC Visiting Artists Program publicity archive and audio recordings (1977–98).