Son of Man
Role: Creative Director, Project Manager
Son of Man is a performance ethnography of African and Caribbean conceptions of masculinity as they relate to colonialism, enslavement, and Christianity. The project blends traditional ethnographic methodologies such as interviews and qualitative research with the creative process as both methodology and research outcome. The project's outcomes included a myriad of interventions including performances, workshops, videos, and community-building efforts. For a period of a year and a half, Co-directors, Sheila Chukwulozie and Amir Denzel Hall spent time in Lagos, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago working with artists in both regions in their exploration. Some of the interventions are included below.
Team:
Sheila Chukwulozie, Amir Denzel Hall, Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu and Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu, Tyker Pionero, Elechi Todd
Sheila Chukwulozie, Amir Denzel Hall, Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu and Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu, Tyker Pionero, Elechi Todd
Requiem for a Butterfly
Role:
Performance, Creative Direction
Performance, Creative Direction
Requiem for a Butterfly conjures the orbital spectrum of the binary, asking what is possible when two opposing things interact? What happens when we close the space between them?
Team:
Sheila Chukwulozie, Amir Denzel Hall, Tyker Pionero and Elechi Todd
Sheila Chukwulozie, Amir Denzel Hall, Tyker Pionero and Elechi Todd
Kirikiri Workshops
Role: Facilitator
In November 2018 Son of Man partnered with the Catholic Church and the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons to offer workshops in creative writing to inmates at the prison. By engaging the participants’ imagination and memory through writing and drawing exercises, we hoped to offer inmates a reprieve to reflect on soft things.
Team: Sheila Chukwulozie, Amir Hall, Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu and Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu
