Join us for a series of screenings, talks and workshops organized in collaboration between Lagos-based Monangambee and London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) with the support of the British Council, engaging artists of African descent and the diaspora in conversation with John Akomfrah’s oeuvre, in terms of aesthetics, practice and social commitments. This project was prompted by John Akomfrah's work at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Listening All Night to the Rain. 

Unsettled Grounds brings together landscape oriented works, which ponder on labor, ecology and the afterlives of colonialism in Portugal, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Part film, part installations, each work introduces a kind of architectural approach to cinema, which revels in laying bare the physicality of the act of filming and the camera apparatus, as well as the uncertain grounds on which they stand. 

Program:

• South Circular, Monica De Miranda, 2019, Portugal, 22mn

• Guardian Angel, Olukemi Lijadu, 2022, UK/Nigeria, 24mn

• Lagos Island, Karimah Ashadu, 2012, Nigeria, 5mn

• Makoko Sawmill, Karimah Ashadu, 2015, Nigeria, 20mn

• Plateau, Karimah Ashadu, 2022, Nigeria, 30mn

5PM, January 10, 2025 at G. A. S. Foundation, 9 Hakeem Dickson Dr, off TF Kuboye Road, Oniru, Lagos.