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Wilfred Ukpong | Social Sculpture & the Third World
OVERVIEW
Oxford-based Nigerian artist and academic Wilfred Ukpong discusses the conceptual framework which underpins his multidisciplinary oeuvre of sculpture, films, performances and artworks.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Blaze, alias of Wilfred Ukpong
Dr. Blaze is a Nigerian-born multidisciplinary social practice artist and researcher who lives and works in Oxford, Paris and Lagos. The former engineering student turned artist obtained his MFA with magna cum laude from Ecole Supérieure d’Art Lorient, France. Ukpong is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford Brookes University where he is undertaking practice-led enquiries in the framework of Social Practice Art and Experimental Fine Art.
Augusta Wicht
Augusta Wicht is an art business professional and artist who manages David Krut Projects Cape Town. She is interested in the influence and role of art in the post-contemporary context.
BACKGROUND
Further information available at http://bit.ly/2vZVQzE
While art is being made to communicate an intended meaning or "art for art's sake", post-doctoral researcher Dr. Wilfred Ukpong investigates the meaning of a third world, or third definition of materiality.
This definition understands material in its context. What function does it perform? What impact does it have in the greater context in which it exists?
In Africa it is important to review these ideas as we are under the global spotlight in light of the recent Africa in Venice Forum and opening of the monumental Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.
Dr. Wilfred Ukpong has worked in the rural Niger Delta for 7 years testing, workshopping and researching his proposed new form of materiality.
Working on a dystopian Afro-futurist film set along the Niger Delta for seven years, Ukpong, trains and funds people from the rural community to work on his film and become artists in their own right. His stars in futurist gear are fishermen in another day, his set builders are ordinary people. The sense of creation and achievement has been an empowering presence in the area devastated by pollution and conflict.
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OVERVIEW
Oxford-based Nigerian artist and academic Wilfred Ukpong discusses the conceptual framework which underpins his multidisciplinary oeuvre of sculpture, films, performances and artworks.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Blaze, alias of Wilfred Ukpong
Dr. Blaze is a Nigerian-born multidisciplinary social practice artist and researcher who lives and works in Oxford, Paris and Lagos. The former engineering student turned artist obtained his MFA with magna cum laude from Ecole Supérieure d’Art Lorient, France. Ukpong is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford Brookes University where he is undertaking practice-led enquiries in the framework of Social Practice Art and Experimental Fine Art.
Augusta Wicht
Augusta Wicht is an art business professional and artist who manages David Krut Projects Cape Town. She is interested in the influence and role of art in the post-contemporary context.
BACKGROUND
Further information available at http://bit.ly/2vZVQzE
While art is being made to communicate an intended meaning or "art for art's sake", post-doctoral researcher Dr. Wilfred Ukpong investigates the meaning of a third world, or third definition of materiality.
This definition understands material in its context. What function does it perform? What impact does it have in the greater context in which it exists?
In Africa it is important to review these ideas as we are under the global spotlight in light of the recent Africa in Venice Forum and opening of the monumental Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.
Dr. Wilfred Ukpong has worked in the rural Niger Delta for 7 years testing, workshopping and researching his proposed new form of materiality.
Working on a dystopian Afro-futurist film set along the Niger Delta for seven years, Ukpong, trains and funds people from the rural community to work on his film and become artists in their own right. His stars in futurist gear are fishermen in another day, his set builders are ordinary people. The sense of creation and achievement has been an empowering presence in the area devastated by pollution and conflict.