Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi will write a series of articles examining how protocols of (im)migration collide with Igbo practices of homemaking in Lagos, Nigeria, a place historically deemed a “no man’s land.” Drawing on works by the photographer Olayinka Sangotoye, the artist Hito Steyerl, and the chef Tunde Wey, Onyewuenyi will probe what it means to perform civic duties in spaces structured for exclusion and will identify how queerness offers grammars for surviving the impossible.
Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi is a curator, writer, and editor. His research focuses on performance and performativity in new media, photographic epistemology, and African aesthetics across the diaspora. He is a curator and manager of curatorial affairs at Performa. His writing has appeared in publications including Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Media Culture, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and Mousse, and online at ARTS.BLACK, e-flux Criticism and OnCurating.org.