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Community » Country:NIGERIA » Artist:Jelili Atiku
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I am Jelili Atiku, a Nigerian multimedia political artist with concerns for human rights and justice. Through drawing, installation sculpture, photography, video and live art performance; I strive to help viewers understand the world and expanding their understanding and experiences, so that they can activate and renew their lives and environments. Since 2009, I have been involved in an ongoing performance project, ‘In the Red’, which uses red as a symbol of life, suffering, danger and violence. In 2008/2009, my performance video, Victim of Political Assassination was showcased in Video Library section of Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Berlin and Madrid. I also featured at the Geisai #12 Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo – Japan (2009), 16th Festival International D’Art Video de Casablanca, Morocco (2009), Old News #6, Malmo, Lagos and Copenhagen (2009/2010) and Freedom to Create Prize, Singapore (2009). Recently, I was among the participating artists in the just concluded International Video Art Festival in Yorkshire, UK: VAF 1: From Africa (2011). Similarly, my videos, Red Bug was among the videos that was screened in woodland at the Kurt Schwitters Summer School, Merzbarn Estate, Lake District, UK (23rd July, 2011); Hail Thy Name was screened in an exhibition, titled WƆbƆle kutu wƆkpe: Cultures in confluence held at Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana (11-29, 0ctober, 2011). I also participated in Cinemarche Video Art Festival, Scarborough Indoor Market, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK (22nd October), and 2011 Protest Art International Festival held in Harare, Zimbabwe– where I enacted performance, titled Red Flag in collaboration with Fisani Nkomo(28th October, 2011). For over decade, I have put my art at service of the prevailing concerns of our times; especially those issues that threatening our collective existence and the sustenance of our universe. Therefore, the contents of these concerns ranging from psychosocial and emotional effects of the traumatic events: violence, war, poverty, corruption, climate change, etc., associated with our warring world dominate his artistic forms. Born in 27th September, 1968 in Ejigbo (Lagos), Nigeria, I was trained at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and University of Lagos, Nigeria – Where I was awarded Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) and Master of Arts (Visual Arts) respectively. I am presently teaching sculpture in Department of Art and Industrial Design, Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos, Nigeria. My Contact: 29, Ifoshi Road, Ejigbo, G.PO. Box, 9723, Marina, Lagos, Nigeria, +234 802 315 5408, +234 805 935 8116, jelili.atiku (SKYPE), jeliliatiku03@gmail.com, www.jeliliatiku.webs.com | 
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