Artist Talk with Victor Ehikhamenor, GUQ Artist-in-Residence

This conversation was moderated by Dr. Safwan Masri, Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar.

In our effort to offer both academic and artistic perspectives related to energy, Georgetown University in Qatar offered its first artist-in-residence position to Victor Ehikhamenor, a Nigerian-American multidisciplinary visual artist and writer known for his vibrant and incisive works that engage with energy humanities and postcolonial politics. This is an innovative appointment driven by our commitment to foster meaningful connections between art and the humanities–whether in the curriculum, in research, or in practice–and to create opportunities for our community to engage with art on a daily basis. Over a two-week period, Ehikhamenor created the original artwork For Those Who Slept in the Dark with Identifiable Ghosts, which was exhibited at GUQ’s “Global Energy Cultures” forum in Msheireb Museums.