Mimi Koku, Irin Ajo (Time, Space, Spirit Travel & The Poetics of Possibility), 2023, Video Still.
I heard a sound that carries.
Crosses planes, a sonic wave kinetic and potential.
An ancient divination.
I wander, dance along its coils in search of mothers’ gardens.
With body, breath and voice to move -
Polyrhythms, circles turning,
winds and words and hands - in earth, turned over.
They spoke to drums to summon gods; I hope to summon futures
And memories and wishes too.
With time, a place somewhere between and hopeful blooms.
What was and is and will become;
A song of many voices.
‘I Heard A Sound That Carries’ (2023) interweaves sound, nature, movement, language and concepts of non linear temporality – illustrating how subjectivity can become reconstructed, existentially, through decolonial, non-linear & non-traditional forms.
Mimi Koku is a Nigerian-born interdisciplinary artist and musician working in the UK and Nigeria. Employing the moving image, sound, ceramics and nature, she investigates both personal & communal archives & histories, indigenous Yoruba cosmologies & philosophies, mythology & spirituality, as well as concepts of temporal fluidity.
@onfilmbymimi
Crosses planes, a sonic wave kinetic and potential.
An ancient divination.
I wander, dance along its coils in search of mothers’ gardens.
With body, breath and voice to move -
Polyrhythms, circles turning,
winds and words and hands - in earth, turned over.
They spoke to drums to summon gods; I hope to summon futures
And memories and wishes too.
With time, a place somewhere between and hopeful blooms.
What was and is and will become;
A song of many voices.
‘I Heard A Sound That Carries’ (2023) interweaves sound, nature, movement, language and concepts of non linear temporality – illustrating how subjectivity can become reconstructed, existentially, through decolonial, non-linear & non-traditional forms.
Mimi Koku is a Nigerian-born interdisciplinary artist and musician working in the UK and Nigeria. Employing the moving image, sound, ceramics and nature, she investigates both personal & communal archives & histories, indigenous Yoruba cosmologies & philosophies, mythology & spirituality, as well as concepts of temporal fluidity.
@onfilmbymimi
Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 20-25 July 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 20-25 July 2023