Otobong Nkanga Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, April 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join us in person for a lecture by artist Otobong Nkanga followed by an audience Q&A.
Otobong Nkanga’s multidisciplinary practice examines the complex social, political, ecological, and material relationships between bodies, territories, minerals, and the earth. Unsettling the divisions between minimal and conceptual or sensual and surreal approaches, the artist’s research-based practice constellates humans and landscapes, organic and non-organic matter. Through drawing, installation, performance, photography, textiles, and sculpture, Nkanga creates pathways translating the natural world into networked, aggregated situations evoking memory, labor, home, care, ownership, emotion, touch, and smell. Reframing people and objects as compressed multitudes and as entities that come into being in relation to other entities, Nkanga deftly weaves insights from geology, botany, poetry, and non-Western knowledge systems.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.
Image: Otobong Nkanga, Loaded tears turned to rock, 2023, hand-tufted carpet, Murano glass, wood, ceramic, clay, handmade rope, metal connectors, dimensions variable
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Loop, Otobong Nkanga, Otobong Nkanga Lecture, performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artists Program
« previous event
next event »