There is no one objective voice of historical authority
NEO Lab fellows Derick Armah & Tara Okeke in conversation with journalist and filmmaker Wana Udobang. This is part 2 of a 5 part series.
Documentarian Derick and writer Tara want the community to be heard. Through connecting audio stories to musical instruments in the collections their desire is to infuse stories into sound.
In this conversation they discuss the ways that everyday stories shape our world, the agonies of being monolingual and what it means for them to translate themselves between cultures. Perhaps a sonic experience can become the place of convergence.
See their full conversation here:
Tara Okeke is a writer and artist from London. Guided by lived experience of care-giving, she works to interrogate and enliven the intersections between people, places, means of production and modes of conservation. Tara was the Horniman Museum and Gardens’ Museum Futures Trainee in 2020, ICON’s 2021–22 ‘Crimes Against Design’ columnist, and part of the emerging critic cohort selected for VAULT Festival’s 2022 New Critics Programme.
With a background in documentary television and history, Derick Armah is a London-based writer who focuses on shaping stories about the connection between people and their place in the world, through written, visual and audio mediums.
Wana Udobang is a storyteller whose work exists in writing, poetry, performance, filmmaking and curatorial projects.
This is part 2 of a 5 part series of conversations between Wana Udobang and fellows of the first NEO Collections Online Fellowship at MK&G Hamburg. Click here for the next conversation.
NEO Collections is funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
