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moment is his mother, creating a trilogy that is almost transcendental." This was followed by a public-facing performance that mimics a Yorùbá burial ceremony "blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction as an attempt is made to attain a state of closure through the public depiction of a universal emotion"
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In 1998, taught fine arts at the
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2018 Red Flag (In The Red Series #10), performance with
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2018 Ajagajigi, Give An Eye For
Hurricane Michael (Alaragbo XVI), performance with Craig Bratten, Max Carter, Elanor Jones, Annelise Rennhack, Chelsea Serzen, Jackson Williams, Trinity Kai, Eden Leal, Courtney McClain, Deena Owens, Cory Perry at Atrium, 1 E Center St and Fayetteville Square (East
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means "a part of me is missing." The performance took place in an empty space that was covered with wallpaper and a photograph of Atiku's father. "Alone throughout most of the 44 hours representing an hour for each year of his life, the only person that is allowed—albeit briefly—to share in the
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and sculptor from Lagos, Nigeria. His performance with drawing, photography, installation sculpture, video and live performance have made him one of the most recognized performance artists from
Nigeria around the world. His work is said to have a power which "lies in his use of
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was motivated by a brutal attack on some three women in Ejigbo which he believed was "an abomination" for which the king must perform a public ritual. He was eventually cleared of wrongdoing in the case after pressure was mounted by local and foreign artists and organisations.
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2019 Ọlọ́mọyọyọ, performance with Aweni
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2019 E Don Tey Wey We Dey, Performance at 21st Lagos Book and Arts
Festival, Freedom Park, Broad Street, Ganiyu Smith Road and Campbell Street, Lagos, Nigeria (Saturday November 9, 2019).
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2020 Nobody Is Born Wise, durational performance (14 Hours) at India Art Fair, NSIC Exhibition
Grounds, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi, India (Friday 31 January – Sunday February 2).
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2019 My Eyes Are Larger Than My Mouth, performance as part of Arts & Globalization
Platform's program 2019 tagged 'Politics of Space' at Giudecca, Venice, Italy (Saturday May 11).
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2019 E Don Tey Wey We Dey, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Centre for Fine Arts; and A Performance Affair (APA), Vanderborght
Building, Brussels, Belgium (Friday September 6).
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Atiku's work focuses on human rights and social justice issues, which have oftentimes brought him in conflict with agents of state. After a performance in his hometown of
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2016 Senate, Are You a Rotten Head? (Maanifesito IV) enacted on
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2019 Olúwowojìwo, performance at the Private view of Lagos Photo Festival, African Artists' Foundation, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria (Saturday October 26, 2019).
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Aráfẹ́rakù (2013). This exhibition focused on Atiku's meditation on the loss of a father he never met. The word "Aráfẹ́rakù" in
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1998 Cyprian Ihejiahi Award – for Best Final Year Student in Sculpture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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