Wild's Eye and Archiving Obsessions (AYO AKINGBADE)

Guest artist AYO AKINGBADE

joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'In the Eye of the Wild' by Nastassja Martin. Published in 2021, the story follows the aftermath of a French anthropologist's gruesome attack by a bear, while she is living with the Evan people on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Ayo and Elizabeth's conversation encompasses healing, hostility, joy, architecture, nepotism, romance, underdogs, irony, phobias, animism, neglect, transformation, swimming, analogue, memoir, disfigurement, hopefulness, multifaceted, strong women, self-centring, turning points, arthouse niche, tarot reading, anthropological study, defence mechanisms, shared fearlessness, spiritual guides, questioning society's expectations, power in names, thinking the worse, colonisation of microbes, French new wave and the rewards of positive thinking.

AYO AKINGBADE

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'Keep Looking' 2024, 14 minute film

'Head of Idoani Girl' 2024, giclee print

'Show Me the World Mister' 2023, publication

'Faluyi' 2022, 14 minute film

'The Fist' 2022, 24 minute film

'Jitterbug' 2022, 24 minute film

'Dear Babylon' 2019, 21 minute film

'Tower XYZ' 2017 3 minute film

BOOKS WRITERS

Derek Walcott 'The First'

Franz Kafka 'The Trial'

Fred Moten

FILM ARTISTS

Agnès Varda

Alfred Hitchcock

Alice Rohrwacher 'La Chimera'

Chantal Akerman 'Family Business'

Chris Marker 'Sans Soleil'

David Lynch

Harun Farocki 'Workers Leaving the Factory' 1995

Mark Dion

Jacques Rivette

Jean-Luc Godard

Jim Jarmusch

Julian Schnabel 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'

Lumière Brothers 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon' 1895

Roni Horn

Stanley Kubrick 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

Steve McQueen 'Caribs' Leap / Western Deep' 2002

Steven Spielberg

Quentin Tarantino 'Inglorious Bastards'

Werner Herzog 'Grizzly Man'

ARCHITECTURE

Dora Boatemah

Le Corbusier

ART INSTITUTIONS

Artangel London

Chisenhale Gallery

Cinereach

Institute of Contemporary Art

John Hansard Gallery

London Film Festival

London LCC

Spike Island

The Baltic Gateshead

The Whitworth

PERFORMERS

Ebenezer Obey 'The Only Condition to Save Nigeria'

Josh O'Connor

Kate Bush

Okwui Okpokwasili

Sade Adu

ART FICTIONS MUSIC Griffin Knipe 

ART FICTIONS LOGO Joanna Quinn