Staff Picks
Her Name in My Mouth
Onyeka Igwe
2017
6 Minutes
Staff Picks
Date
July 1–31, 2023
Invoking a lineage of female ancestors through embodiment, gesture, and the archive, Her Name in My Mouth reimagines the Aba Women’s War, a major anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria.
The film is presented on e-flux Film alongside Specialised Technique (2018) for the July 2023 edition of Staff Picks featuring Onyeka Igwe. Both films are part of Onyeka Igwe’s trilogy No Dance, No Palaver (2017-2018, on view at the artist’s solo show at MoMA PS1 through August 21, 2023), which covers research into the Aba Women’s War of 1929. All of the films in this trilogy use the first major anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria as an entry point to experiment with colonial moving images relating to West Africa during the first half of the twentieth century. No Dance, No Palaver serves as an attempt to use critical proximity: being close to, with, or amongst the visual trauma of the colonial archive to transform the way in which we know the people it contains.
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