Expanding Technologies Residency: Ibadan/Seattle Visual Arts Exchange is a collaboration between New Culture Studios, CoCA Seattle, and Wa Na Wari.
In a world with ever-deepening digital integration our vision of what technology is and where its influence will take us has steadily narrowed towards an emphasis on computerized novelty. Meanwhile, enduring technologies exist across histories, geographies, and ecosystems, new and old, providing additional possibilities for creating sustainable futures.
How can we expand our definition of technologies and locate diverse sites of innovation that deserve further exploration and understanding?
What are the cultural technologies, indigenous technologies, community-centric technologies, nature-based technologies, collaborative technologies and/or creative technologies that are relevant and applicable today?
The Expanding Technologies Residency is an invitation for one Ibadan-based artist and one Seattle-based artist to explore these themes during site-specific, collaborative programs created by community and artist-run artspaces in Ibadan, Nigeria and Seattle, USA.
One Ibadan-based artist in Seattle from: September 13th – October 3rd
Dates include Wa Na Wari’s Walk the Block and 1st Thursday exhibition at CoCA
One Seattle-based artist in Ibadan from: October 25th – November 14th
Dates include Lagos Art Week