Onyeka Igwe
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Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer and researcher.
She lives and works in London.
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In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance, voice, archive and text to expose a multiplicity of narratives. The work explores the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning.
Her video works have shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, The Showroom, London, articule, Montreal and Trinity Square Video, Toronto as well as at the London, Edinburgh Artist Moving Image, Rotterdam International and Hamburg film festivals.
Known for
Ungentle
September 16, 2022
A Radical Duet
October 13, 2023
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel
August 9, 2021
The Miracle on George Green
May 31, 2022
Her Name in My Mouth
January 26, 2018
Sitting on a Man
January 1, 2018
Specialised Technique
July 5, 2018
We Need New Names
January 5, 2015
The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered
September 4, 2019
Collective Hum
February 17, 2020
No Archive Can Restore You
October 7, 2020
A So-Called Archive
December 9, 2020
Behind the camera17
- 2026No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame Director
- 2025Penkelemes Director
- 2023A Radical Duet Director, Writer
- 2023Notes on dancing with the archive Director
- 2023Sylvie’s Monologue Director
- 2022Ungentle Director, Editor
- 2022The Miracle on George Green Director
- 20218 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel Director
- 2020Another Step Forward Director
- 2020