An Evening with Onyeka Igwe

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Held on Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

In conjunction with her MoMA PS1 exhibition A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver), London-based artist and filmmaker Onyeka Igwe joins us for a Modern Mondays evening featuring a selection of her single-channel and expanded film works. Igwe’s research-based practice occupies a diasporic perspective that offers a critique of British imperialism and its aftermath, neoliberal capitalism. By layering sound, image, text, and re-processed archival materials—including celluloid, printed photographs, textile scraps, oral histories, and published documents—Igwe activates the spectator’s senses, subverting the dominant visual-first tendencies of Euro-American cinema.

a so-called archive. 2020. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 20 min.
We Need New Names. 2015. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 14 min.
Notes on dancing with the archive. 2023. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 1 min.
Her Name in My Mouth. 2017. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 6 min.
Another Step Forward. 2020. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 6 min.
The Miracle on George Green. 2022. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 12 min.
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel. 2021. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 4 min.
Sylvie’s Monologue. 2023. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 3 min.

Program 66 min.

This film accompanies Modern Mondays.

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