I C A F Lagos 2017 Participating Artist List
The Vernacular Art-space Laboratory (VAL Foundation) is delighted to announce its list of participating artists for ICAF Lagos 2017. The theme of ICAF Lagos 2017 is “Still No Longer At Ease.”
Most times, as the Obi/Clara issue suggests, in No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe, the essence of humanity is questioned with the ideology of the “others,” that lacks dialogue and inclusion with that of the “others” and this is where both the title of the novel and the tragedy that it narrates become relevant to our focus on migration and refugeeism this year.
The artistic director of ICAF Lagos, Aderemi Adegbite, and Abraham Oghobase will co-curate the 2017 edition of the festival, which will open on December 6th and run until December 10th 2017 in Iwaya community.
The artists in this year’s festival are as follows:
ANJA SIJBEN – Netherlands
ALINE MOTTA – Brazil
RITA GT – Portugal
GOR SOUDAN – Kenya
MORAN BEEN-NOON – Israel/Ireland
ABRAHAM OGHOBASE – Nigeria
ODUN ORIMOLADE – Nigeria
VA-BENE ELIKEM FIATSI (crazinisT artisT) – Ghana
OLANREWAJU TEJUOSHO (Olan) – Nigeria
ZOE DANIEL CYRIL (Nature) – Nigeria
ENOH LIENEMANN – Germany
IRENE PASKALI – Germany
MARIO PFEIFER – Germany
RASHEED “DANCE” IBRAHIM – Nigeria
JOHN DENSKY – Canada
KIFFOULY YOUCHAOU – Republic of Benin
ABOLORE SOBAYO – Nigeria
ABU ALI – Spain
ELIZABETH KWANT – UK
LUCIANA KAPLUN – Argentina/Israel
GILAD RATMAN – Israel
SEUN SANNI – Nigeria
EMEKA OKEREKE – Nigeria
ANDREW ESIEBO – Nigeria
UCHE JAMES-IROHA – Nigeria
ACE HOUSE COLLECTIVE – Indonesia
REGINA SEBALD – Germany
MOUSSA KALAPO – Mali
KANI SISSOKO – Mali
CHRISS AGHANA NWOBU – Nigeria
SAM IVIN – UK
YUSUF DURODOLA – Nigeria
MUT ZU WUT (50 posters/50 artists) – Germany
THE ONE MINUTES (30 videos/30 artists) – Netherlands
SELVAPRAKASH LAKSHMANAN – India
TAIWO OJUDUN – Nigeria
TAIWO AIYEDOGBON – Nigeria
YABA TECH COLLECTIVE – Nigeria