Onyeka Igwe
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Biography
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.
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Collective Hum
2020
Specialised Technique
2018
Ungentle
2022
No Archive Can Restore You
2020
Notes on dancing with the archive
2023
Penkelemes
2025
A Radical Duet
2023
The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered
2019
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel
2021
A So-Called Archive
2020
We Need New Names
2015
The Miracle on George Green
2022
Sylvie’s Monologue
2023
Her Name in My Mouth
2018
Another Step Forward
2020
Sitting on a Man
2018
No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame
2026