Emeka Ogboh

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Full Name	Emeka Ogboh
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	May 14, 1977(1977-05-14)
Age	47
Birthplace	Enugu
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Enugu State
Horoscope	Taurus

Emeka Ogboh Biography

Emeka Ogboh is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on May 14, 1977 in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. Ogboh was born in Enugu, Nigeria, on May 14 1977. He was a graphic designer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and graduated in 2001. His home is in Lagos, Nigeria, and Berlin.

The work is usually displayed in listening booths equipped with headphones, however they have also been exhibited on the streetscapes in Cologne and Helsinki to provide a comment on globalization. He’s Lagos by Bus is a video of Lagos passengers who travel on in the taxis shared by danfo as well as Molue minibuses typical of the city’s transportation system to work. A vendor prays before selling medications to passengers in a protest against sociopolitical issues. tune by Fela Kuti is played on the radio. The installation ran for 40 minutes in the Cologne’s Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in 2010, and the booth was painted yellow , with white stripes, and also with stickers that resembled the characteristic features of the Danfo. A large outdoor installation in Cologne’s Cologne Public Library piped the streets of Lagos to the streets of Cologne. Similar installations took place in Helsinki’s Kiasma contemporary art museum.

Art historian and curator Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi described Ogboh’s work as capturing “the maddening hyper-visuality of Lagos”. Ogboh was among Nzewi’s most anticipated artists at the 2014 contemporary African art festival 1:54. In 2013, Ogboh reported reception of his Lagos Soundscapes as mixed: annoying some and intriguing others. Quiet European cities have considered the work “noisy and obtrusive”, in one case destroying a speaker and calling the police on the installation. The artist appreciated the installation’s effect on Nigerians abroad, and how being in earshot of the soundscape confused them in their foreign environment. Art historian Carol Magee noted how even in the business of the Lagos Soundscapes, she felt a stillness in which her attention was focused and the patterns unchanging despite the cacophony of the scene. Malawian visual artist Massa Lemu described Ogboh’s work as embodying Afropolitanism, in which African cities were representative of a busy, globalized world and its multiple cultures centralized in one place. Lemu thought of Ogboh’s soundscapes as “auditory landscapes” that recreate a sense of the Lagos environment. He additionally compared Ogboh’s practice with that of sound artists James Webb (South Africa) and Magdi Mostafa (Egypt), though these two tend to manipulate their recordings where Ogboh instead recontextualizes the original. For this reason, Lemu considered Ogboh’s work to be closer in lineage to John Cage’s recontextualized found sounds than the practice of El Anatsui or Romuald Hazoume recycling found objects as commentary on economic conditions.

In 2014, his The Ambivalence of 1960 was featured in an exhibition at the Casino Luxembourg. The piece is a six-minute collage of speeches from Nigeria’s 1960 independence festivities, including those of President Nnamdi Azikiwe, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and English Princess Alexandra of Kent. Their aspirations for a human rights, freedom, religious tolerance, and economic development, compared with the present day, show Nigeria’s political failures over the previous half-century. Ogboh visited New York City in September 2014 with his danfo share taxi, a symbol of public transport in Lagos, for a one-day installation (Lagos State of Mind II) at The Africa Center in Harlem. The installation included photos of the taxi with historic landmarks and African-American neighborhoods in New York City, juxtaposed against sounds situated in and out of the taxi. One of Ogboh’s earlier works, Verbal Maps of Ojuelegba, features a Lagos danfo driver reciting the Ojuelegba route. The artist noted how hawking has been banned on Lagos’s new roads and that the danfo share taxi will eventually disappear, along with their contribution to the city’s soundscapes. This historical element was not an initial consideration in the project, though the artist planned for his future work to narrate the transformation of the city.

He initially recorded Lagos to be used in the studio however, when he was approached with the idea of sharing the sounds for art installation, he decided editing the videos to ensure the most accurate portrayal of Lagos and was considered to be the best way to share the sound with the public. Home is a result of his Egyptian art class, Ogboh was inspired to develop Lagos Soundscapes. Lagos Soundscapes project when the artist could hear the city’s sounds while on a call with one of his friends. When he moved into his new field of work, he consulted the internet for help through online discussion forums as well as email. In his works, Ogboh prefers audio that needs minimal manipulation in the studio, and doesn’t significantly alter the sound. Certain audio effects are derived from the recording space, both surfaces that distort and echo sound, as well as the effects of travelling with the aid of a recorder. The first time he did a sound installation was located in the Fayoum academy’s bathroom. It was then followed by the first Lagos Soundscapes installation at the Lagos African Artists’ Foundation in 2009. Ogboh remembers the receptions mostly centered in relation to the novelty of his work.

Emeka Ogboh Net Worth

Emeka Ogboh is one of the richest Artist from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emeka Ogboh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Emeka Ogboh (born 1977) is an Nigerian artist of sound and installation most well-known for his soundscapes of the city in Lagos. A trained artist and sound artist, he started working with the sounds of cities as a result of the guidelines of an Egyptian multimedia art course. He exhibits unmodified field recordings taken from Lagos city life, for instance the Danfo taxi share system — in installation installations that use the aid of speakers and headphones. The non-audio works he creates employ icons of Lagos cities. He took part at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and the 2015 Venice Biennale, and received the 2016 Bremen Bottcherstrasse Art Award. His work was exhibited on The Brooklyn Museum, American National Museum of African Art, Menil Collection, Casino Luxembourg and Kiasma. Some critics commented on the soundscapes’ chaotic and complexity, as well as his emphasis on recontextualizing, not making the city’s sounds more interesting.

Ogboh is an audio and video artist. He was drawn to the art of sound during an art course in 2008 at the Fayoum Winter Academy with Austrian multimedia artist Harald Scherz. After this encounter, Ogboh paid attention to the interplay of sounds within Lagos as compositions, rather than distinct voices. Ogboh likened the soundscapes to orchestral symphonies with layers of voices instead of purely chaotic noise. He liked the soundscape’s capacity to “transport the listener” and found the medium of sound to be extremely engaging.

Ogboh hosted an online stream of his Lagos Soundscapes in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Lagos for the July 2013 World Listening Day. In a Houston installation at the Menil Collection, Ogboh installed a danfo bus, which he uses as a “spontaneous ‘agora’ ” that carries a culture as Lagos’s “most iconic symbol”. He also created videos—Fractal Scapes—as abstracted ” ‘time- based’ paintings” of the city, and began collaborations with musicians who referred to Ogboh’s Lagos recordings.

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