Friday Event / Onyeka Igwe

Friday, 10 February 2023
11:00 13:00

Reid Lecture Theatre 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow, G3 6RQ (map)

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Onyeka Igwe, ‘a so-called archive’ (2020). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.

CANCELLED: Unfortunately the Friday event has been cancelled due to UCU strike action planned for Friday 10 February.

The Common Guild is collaborating with The Glasgow School of Art to present artist Onyeka Igwe for the first Friday Event of 2023 as part of the School of Fine Art’s long-running lecture series.

Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. She is born and based in London, UK. Through her work Onyeka is animated by the question “how do we live together?” with a particular interest in sensorial, spatial, and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers. She uses embodiment, voice, archives, narration and text to create structural “figure-of-eights”, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives.

Igwe is currently working with The Common Guild on a new commission as part of ‘anywhere in the universe’, a project looking at the present, past and future of the public library, which will be presented in Glasgow in Spring 2023.

Onyeka Igwe, ‘No Archive Can Restore You’, (2020). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.

Onyeka Igwe’s solo exhibitions and commissions include ‘Ungentle’ (with Huw Lemmey), Studio Voltaire, London; ‘The Miracle on George Green’, Highline, New York (both 2022); ‘a so-called archive’, LUX, London; ‘THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM’, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, (both 2021), ‘There Were Two Brothers’, Jerwood Arts, (2019), and ‘Corrections’ with Aliya Pabani, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada (2018).

In 2022 Igwe was nominated for the Jarman Award and shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2022–2024. She was awarded the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize; the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film; and was the 2019 recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award in 2019.

An upcoming solo exhibition, ‘A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver)’ will open at MoMA PS1, New York in March 2023.

The Friday Event is a visiting speaker series presented by the School of Fine Art (SoFA) at The Glasgow School of Art. With a long illustrious past and a bright future, the series hosts artists, writers, curators, academics, students and other cultural figures, welcoming and broadening dialogue and knowledge of local and international fields. Happening on campus and online, the Friday Event is always open to all.