Vernacular ArtSpace Lab – Vernacular ArtSpace Lab

The debut of the Iwaya Community Art Biennial (ICAB Lagos 2021) picked its theme "No Victor, No Vanquish: The World At The Crossroads" - as a remix of two extreme historical statements: ‘No Victor, No Vanquish’ the speech title of late Gen. Yakubu Gowon at the end of the Biafra Civil War in Nigeria and `Burma: A Nation At The Crossroads,’ the title of Benedict Rogers’ book on Burma (now Myanmar) several years of civil war. Multi-ethnicity being the bedrock of civil war in the two global south countries reminds us of uncertainty, immobility, and anxiety that engulfed every nation around the world as COVID-19 was announced as a pandemic in 2020. The arrival of the novel coronavirus exposed the porosity of health systems in several nations around the world. And the global south suffered more on various grounds that led to the probe of government policies and political standings through protests and uprisings - #EndSARS in Nigeria, #MillionManMarch in Sudan, #BlackLiveMatter in the US, to mention a few.

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Posters Iwaya Community Art Festival ICAF, LAGOS 2016 Posters Iwaya Community Art Festival ICAF, LAGOS 2016 “Oyinbo” Rita GT performance of “Oyinbo” ICAF 2017, Lagos “Oyinbo” Rita GT performance of “Oyinbo” ICAF 2017, Lagos Lingering Ghosts Presented on Igbore Street

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Performance Art – Akudaaya

Performance Art – Akudaaya Vernacular Art-space Laboratory is a community-based art organisation operating in Iwaya/Makoko suburbs in Yaba area of mainland Lagos, established itself as a platform where artists create artistic interventions in collaboration with the everyday people. Our annual

Community Interventions

Community Interventions Vernacular Art-space Laboratory is a community-based art organisation operating in Iwaya/Makoko suburbs in Yaba area of mainland Lagos, established itself as a platform where artists create artistic interventions in collaboration with the everyday people. Our annual project, Iwaya

ICAF Lagos 2017 – An Artist Talk

ICAF Lagos, 2017 – An Artist Talk Abraham Oghobase in conversation with crazinisT artisT (Va-Bene Elikam Fiatsi) One of the special project artists at the second edition of Iwaya Community Art Festival – I C A F Lagos 2017, was

ICAF Lagos 2017 – An Interview

ICAF Lagos, 2017 – An Interview Abraham Oghobase in conversation with Gor Soudan at I C A F Lagos 2017. This conversation is centered on Gor’s food project in Nairobi

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