With «Ethnosphere: Of Land and Memory», Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh presents an electro-acoustic outdoor sound installation at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich.
The work combines archival recordings from the museum with contemporary sound design. Voices, work songs, natural sounds and poetic fragments are woven together into a soundscape that reflects on cultural memory, labour, landscape and the relationship between humans and nature.
The installation invites visitors to experience the archive as a living space of resonance: sounds from different contexts enter into dialogue with the garden environment and open up new forms of listening.
Vernissage
Tuesday, 30 June, 6:00 p.m.
Old Botanical Garden UZH
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Ethnosphere: Of Land and Memory was created in collaboration with the Art Collection of the Canton of Zurich, the Office for Building Construction of the Canton of Zurich, the Art x Science Office UZH and the Ethnographic Museum UZH.
Emeka Ogboh (*1977) is a Nigerian artist whose installations explore how private, public and collective memories and histories can be translated, transformed and encoded into different sensory experiences. His work has been presented in several renowned international exhibitions, including documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, the Venice Biennale in Italy and the Dakar Biennale.