Odun Orimolade

she/her

Lagos, Nigeria

Title: Amin Funfun The White Mark (2016)
Lagos Live International performance festival Goethe Institute Nigeria, Lagos City Hall, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Photo credit Akintomide Adesemoye

Odun Orimolade PhD is an artist, academic that continues to evolve in an experimental, trans disciplinary approach to her practice, incorporating and exploring different media including performance art. She keeps an open contexture to her approach to creative production and is attracted to the impact on and perception of individuals on issues that spread through a variety of genres. These are attended with a mix of ideologies.  Her work recurrently engages possibilities in overlapping realities and the intangible, also the impact of external influences and their reflection on human behavioural tendencies, orientation and interaction. A lot of this is largely introspective with a view to connect on a more individual, generative if not ethereal auspice. Orimolade consistently collaborates and contributes to different art projects and development programmes in exploration and research for creative practice. She lectures at the Yaba College of Technology Lagos, where she currently serves as the Sub-Dean of the School of Art Design and Printing. She also was instrumental in developing the Yaba Art Museum where she functions as curatorial director. She introduced and has coordinated the annual Performance Art Intensive workshops since 2012. Her performance work has been presented in the Museum of Contemporary African and Diasporan Art New York, Bern Performance Art Festival, Switzerland, the Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Art 21 Space Lagos amongst several others. She is based in Lagos, Nigeria.