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We are less than 24 hours away from our IB/VLC For

We are less than 24 hours away from our IB/VLC Forum 2021. Tuesday 12 October 2021.

Here more about the workshop sessions:

On the “Here and Elsewhere”: Nzukota and Hyphenates Projects, Online Discussing the poetics of relation within their collaboration, which has taken the form of two projects, Emeka Okereke hosts a performative conversation with anthropologist Mathangi Krishnamurthy and researcher Reem Alfahad.

Mathangi Krishnamurthy @tasvee.rein is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Her book 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of Indian call centre workers. She also writes occasionally for popular press and currently maintains a monthly column titled Culture Mulch for the newspaper 'The Hindu' bringing together observations from popular media, culture, and anthropology.

Reem Alfahad @reemixtion is a writer and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. She habitually straddles the line between her geographic homes in Kuwait, the US, Germany and Colombia, and the versions of herself they allow her to inhabit. She holds an MSc in Urban Sociology from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. Outside of Academia, she is involved in a series of community initiatives with migrant women in Berlin. Earlier this year, she was invited to Barcelona by artist Emeka Okereke in the context of his residency at the Over during which she collaborated with him in the project “Nzukota: a coming together, “ a multimedia project that speaks to the shape-shifting concept of “home” being both here and elsewhere.

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Next Batch of our facilitators for the IB/VLC Foru

Next Batch of our facilitators for the IB/VLC Forum 2021. See link in Bio to register and join the series of workshops

Let’s Try On New Clothes: Invisible Borders and the Trans-Bangladeshi Road Trip
Nigerian and Bangladeshi participants including Sadia Mariam, Kay Ugwuede and Emeka Okereke reflect on the nature and specificity of the Trans-Bangladeshi Road Trip. Exploring the notion and space of “encounter,” this exchange considers the process by which the subjective and collective are negotiated.

Sadia Marium @mariumrupa dreamt of being a filmmaker, worked as a Merchandiser and at present an independent photographer based in Dhaka. Sadia’s practice pollinates the process of creating photographs, books, videos, and alternative printing methods. The question of ‘Intrusion’ in photography intrigues her the most. Ordinary characters, unremarkable memories, spaces and objects are the protagonists of her works in tracing the distinction & overlap of reality & fiction, private & public. Sadia’s interest in geopolitics & border discourse, role of narratives in creating memory are shaping her recent and new works. She is one of the founding members of ‘Kaali Collective’.

Kay Ugwuede @kayugwuede is a writer of creative nonfiction and fiction, a technology journalist and a hobbyist photographer from an idyllic town in eastern Nigeria. Her essays and memoirs have been published or are upcoming in Agbowó Magazine, The Arkansas International, Citron Review, Bloomberg CityLab, The Smart Set, The Forge Literary Magazine, and Taxi Drivers Who Drive Us Nowhere anthology (Bakwa Magazine). She has received a Best of the Net nomination and written a travel chapbook following a road trip across west, east and central Africa.

PARTICIPATION IS BY REGISTRATION

See link in our bio for more information and how to register for the online workshop

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We bring you the next batch of facilitators for ou

We bring you the next batch of facilitators for our IB/VLC Forum 2021. Date: Tuesday, 12 October 2021.

The Journey is the Destination: Invisible Borders and Open Roads

Connecting the origins of the Invisible Borders project to the Nigerian photography collective, Depth of Field, this gathering hosted by Uche James Iroha, Zaynab Odunsi and Emeka Okereke serves as a premise to historicize the project and its legacy.

FACILITATORS:

Uche James Iroha trained originally as a sculptor from the University of Port Harcourt, He got involved in photography in the middle of 1996. Uche is one of the most visible mentors of younger photographers in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, organizing and animating workshops and other artistic projects. He was awarded the Prince Claus Award in the Netherlands In 2008. He was a founding member of the Depth of Field (DOF) collective, and a founding participant of Invisible Borders Trans-African Project.

Zaynab Odunsi is a Saudi based Nigerian photographer who works as a part-time lecturer at Dar Al Hekma University, Jeddah and runs her photo studio ZOO portraits. She holds an MA in Photography from the University of the Arts London. She is the founder of the Hekayat Ashara photography project (www.hekayat10.com), a community-based art project. Zaynab is a member of the Nigerian collective Depth of Field. Over the years, Zaynab’s work has been shown at international biennales. She was one of the participants of Invisible Borders Road Trip 2016.

Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist, writer, filmmaker and DJ. A member of the Nigerian photography collective Depth of Field (DOF), he holds a master’s degree from the Fine Art School of Paris. Okereke is the founder and artistic director of Invisible Borders Trans-African Project. In 2018, he was conferred France’s prestigious Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture of France.

PARTICIPATION IS BY REGISTRATION

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Are you ready for the IB/VLC Forum 2021? We presen

Are you ready for the IB/VLC Forum 2021? We present to you the facilitators according to the five workshop sessions programmed for the day, starting with:

Borders as Blank Pages:
Writings on Borders through the Trans-African Project
Led by Kay Ugwuede and Tope Adegoke, this session reflects on the process(es) of writing within the Invisible Borders project and the possibilities it has opened up for non-fiction writing.

Kay Ugwuede @kayugwuede is a writer of creative nonfiction and fiction, a technology journalist and a hobbyist photographer from an idyllic town in eastern Nigeria. Her essays and memoirs have been published or are upcoming in Agbowó Magazine, The Arkansas International, Citron Review, Bloomberg CityLab, The Smart Set, The Forge Literary Magazine, and Taxi Drivers Who Drive Us Nowhere anthology (Bakwa Magazine). She has received a Best of the Net nomination and written a travel chapbook following a road trip across west, east and central Africa. She volunteers with the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Organisation as the organization’s director of publications and also contributes to the business & innovation vertical at AMAKA Studio, a pan-African womxn digital publication based in London.

Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè is a traveller, literary critic and writer from Ibadan, Nigeria. Tọ́pẹ́ is the co-publisher of Fortunate Traveller, a travel journal. He writes for Wawa Book Review, Abuja, and Africa in Words. He enjoys travelling and cooking. His chapbook of travels across Africa, Transacting Stories: Markets, People and Places, has been exhibited by Invisible Borders at the 2019 AfriCologne Festival, Germany and the 12th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, Mali. @LiteraryGansta is his alter ego on Twitter.

DATE: TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2021.

PARTICIPATION IS BY REGISTRATION

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Dear colleagues, friends, and partners, We are ex

Dear colleagues, friends, and partners,

We are excited to share with you some information about our upcoming workshop - a day of encounters/ discussions centred around Borders, Being, and Motion. Collaborating with Invisible Borders’ participants and partners, you are invited to join Invisible Borders Trans-African Project and the Vera List Centre for Arts & Politics and participate in our virtual workshop.

It is a performance of coming together.

DATE OF EVENT:
TUESDAY OCTOBER 12, 2021

LOCATION: ZOOM/ UNION DOCS BROOKLYN (@uniondocs)

As well as hearing insights, concepts, and personal experiences accrued from our collaborations, participants will be invited to engage - please bring along your thoughts, remarks, and questions for our facilitators.

Facilitators:

Uche James Iroha (@uchejamesiroha)
Zaynab Odunsi (@zee2thenab)
Emeka Okereke (@emekaokereke)
Kay Ugwuede (@kayugwuede)
Tope Adegoke (@literarygansta)
Sadia Marium (@mariumrupa)
Mathangi Krishnamurthy (@tasvee.rein)
Reem Alfahad (@reemixtion)
Tom Saater (@tomsaater)
Yemoh Odoi (@theminorityglobe)

Hosted by Vera List Centre New York (@veralistcenter)

PARTICIPATION IS BY REGISTRATION.

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Design: Yee Hui (@okaypotato)

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From the archives: Lagos - Kigali Trans-African Ro

From the archives: Lagos - Kigali Trans-African Road Trip 2018.

Jesus, Carry Go by @kenenwatu

“As we make our way through to the very last steps at the foot of the hill, I came across this van. It is a paradox of some sort, of our country, of its sequence over the years and the actions and decisions that has led us here. In the weeds I see the dogged and sheer physical exertion and hard work in the people as they continually strive to make sense of the hardships and the stressors of thriving here. Like the weeds, the progress and growth of the country and people is sporadic, even still, it can still be cut short by the “rulers” when they deem fit.
Like in this image, the ability and desire to be on the move plainly and metaphorically, is always at the brink of having the tires extracted from underneath.

French

Alors que nous franchissions les toutes dernières marches au pied de la colline, je suis tombé sur ce fourgon. C'est un paradoxe de quelque sorte, de notre pays, de sa séquence au fil des ans, des actions et des décisions qui nous ont menés ici. Dans les mauvaises herbes, je vois l'effort physique obstiné et pur et le dur labeur chez les gens qui s'efforcent sans cesse de donner un sens aux difficultés et aux facteurs de stress de la prospérité ici. Comme les mauvaises herbes, les progrès et la croissance du pays et de la population sont sporadiques, même quand même, ils peuvent toujours être interrompus par les «dirigeants» quand ils le jugent bon.
Comme sur cette image, la capacité et le désir de bouger de façon claire et métaphorique sont toujours au bord de l'extraction des pneus situés en dessous.

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