give way to more
by
chizu nnamdi
Date: Friday 31st March
Time: 22:00 - 23:00 / Audiovisual Performance
TICKET BOOKING REQUIRED (Statement Here)
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art | Theatre
Accessibility Info: S | V | SP (Access Guide)
Age Rating: All ages
Content Warnings: Flashes of light.
Anucha (aka. chizu nnamdi) presents an audiovisual performance, bringing fragments of his experimental compositions together with distorted VHS video processes for the first time.
The work builds on a music performance originally presented at Edinburgh Art Festival (2021) as part of the Associate Artist Programme curated by Tako Taal. The piece built a collective imagination of a utopian future by tuning into the temporal resonances of the many black abolitionists that visited Edinburgh in the 19th century.
Two years on, the set of music grows from its infancy and continues to challenge popular music sensibilities, leaning towards a culmination of ambient folk, experimental hip hop and post punk.
Credits
chizu nnamdi (guitar, vocals, sampler)
Iain Stott (drums, percussion)
Jordan MacRae (moving image, video processing)
chizu nnamdi
aka Chizu Anucha
Chizu Anucha is a Scottish afrodiasporic artist of Igbo Nigerian heritage, currently based in Glasgow and working with music and its relationship to the moving image. His practice meets at the intersection of music composition, video and site-responsive performance.
His work romanticises everyday practices through poetic and reflexive styles of documentary filmmaking and investigates the historical tensions inherent in the publicness of the black body. He believes in the transformative role of music and performance, and its function in assessing our emotional landscapes. This tends to lead to experiments in the formation of historical and fictional narratives, often by recontextualising archived moving images with collages of VHS video.
