Onyeka Igwe
Known for: Director
Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer and researcher.
She lives and works in London.
In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance, voice, archive and text to expose a multiplicity of narratives. The work explores the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning.
Her video works have shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, The Showroom, London, articule, Montreal and Trinity Square Video, Toronto as well as at the London, Edinburgh Artist Moving Image, Rotterdam International and Hamburg film festivals.
Directed / Created
No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame
Penkelemes
A Radical Duet
Sylvie’s Monologue
Notes on dancing with the archive
Ungentle
The Miracle on George Green
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel
Another Step Forward
A So-Called Archive
No Archive Can Restore You
The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered
Specialised Technique
Her Name in My Mouth
Sitting on a Man
We Need New Names