Bankole Damilola, This Land is Not For Sale 2023
This text was submitted as a proposal to the apexart INTL25 Open Call
On June 27, 2023, the Nigerian government ordered bulldozers and machinery to demolish homes in the Mosafejo community, a slum settlement in Lagos, Nigeria. Over 12,000 people were displaced overnight without prior notice or compensation.
For over a century, land grabbing by governments from it?s own citizens or from other nations has been a major global problem. From Russia to Ukraine, Israel to Palestine, Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya to Somalia, and India to Pakistan, various levels of war, chaos, and brutal displacement of families due to land grabbing continue to spiral out of control. Countless helpless families find themselves at the receiving end of this corporate and government greed.
The Other Order: Through the work of five artists (some who are directly impacted) working across sound, photography, installation, video, and performance, this exhibition is a multi-sensory experience that humanizes the stories of displaced Nigerian families as a result of land grabbing, connecting ?smaller" struggles to "bigger" ones.
Soundscape artist and synthesist Noah okudini?s sound installation uses audio recordings from interviews with displaced victims to create an immersive sound experience that highlights the before, during and after of the forceful eviction of families from their ancestral land by the government.
Bankole Damilola is a Documentary Photographer and Visual Story teller through his photographs will be sharing the adverse effects of forceful eviction on children. He is resident of the community in Lagos where 12,000 people were displaced overnight and he documented the entire event. His pictures will provoke thoughts on the inhumane eviction and aftermath of land grabbing and its effect on women and children.
Film maker and writer Prince Charles Uhunoma challenges the concepts of modernization and urbanization as this are recurring times used while displacing people who most times do not have the means to afford the sky scrapers and modern buildings that are erected have they have been displaced.
Ayodeji Adewale, a performance artist and percussionist through his performance questions space and body as concept in relation to forceful eviction and immigration.
Obiajulu Ozegbe creates an installation with various items found at the sites of demolitions and forceful evictions in an attempt to invoke the spirits of the objects to share their own stories of land grabbing.
On June 27, 2023, the Nigerian government ordered bulldozers and machinery to demolish homes in the Mosafejo community, a slum settlement in Lagos, Nigeria. Over 12,000 people were displaced overnight without prior notice or compensation.
For over a century, land grabbing by governments from it?s own citizens or from other nations has been a major global problem. From Russia to Ukraine, Israel to Palestine, Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya to Somalia, and India to Pakistan, various levels of war, chaos, and brutal displacement of families due to land grabbing continue to spiral out of control. Countless helpless families find themselves at the receiving end of this corporate and government greed.
The Other Order: Through the work of five artists (some who are directly impacted) working across sound, photography, installation, video, and performance, this exhibition is a multi-sensory experience that humanizes the stories of displaced Nigerian families as a result of land grabbing, connecting ?smaller" struggles to "bigger" ones.
Soundscape artist and synthesist Noah okudini?s sound installation uses audio recordings from interviews with displaced victims to create an immersive sound experience that highlights the before, during and after of the forceful eviction of families from their ancestral land by the government.
Bankole Damilola is a Documentary Photographer and Visual Story teller through his photographs will be sharing the adverse effects of forceful eviction on children. He is resident of the community in Lagos where 12,000 people were displaced overnight and he documented the entire event. His pictures will provoke thoughts on the inhumane eviction and aftermath of land grabbing and its effect on women and children.
Film maker and writer Prince Charles Uhunoma challenges the concepts of modernization and urbanization as this are recurring times used while displacing people who most times do not have the means to afford the sky scrapers and modern buildings that are erected have they have been displaced.
Ayodeji Adewale, a performance artist and percussionist through his performance questions space and body as concept in relation to forceful eviction and immigration.
Obiajulu Ozegbe creates an installation with various items found at the sites of demolitions and forceful evictions in an attempt to invoke the spirits of the objects to share their own stories of land grabbing.
Obiajulu Ozegbe is a Dancer, Choreographer, Activist and Community Organizer from Nigeria who uses dance and the performing arts as tools for problem solving and community building.
