Other-worldly
Moviment, chapter 6
Thu 8 – Sun 11 June 2023
Photo : © Marie Koehler
Qudus Onikeku: Out of This World
Dance Installation, performance
In this interactive performance-installation inspired by the principles of the Ifá divination system of the Yoruba culture, the public is invited to plunge into another space-time.
The installation consisting of sixteen totems defines a place to meet, listen and exchange where music, dance and the spoken word are intermingled. These totems enable us to access oral histories and sonorities in order to create an instant of collective listening at the interface of an artistic and social space.
Qudus Onikeku then takes possession of this space and dances, accompanied by four musicians, in a collaboration that confirms the idea of the urgency of the present.
Continuous installation – Friday, 9 to Sunday, 11 June 2023
Performance – Thursday, 8 to Sunday, 11 June 2023 – on reservation
Concept, directing, scenography: Qudus Onikeku
Musicians: Varna Marianne Nielsen, Olatunde Obajeun, Dinesh Pandit, Asmaa Hamzaoui
Musical creation: Charles Amblard, Fernando Velázquez, Olatunde Obajeun
Electronics: Ircam, Pierre Carré
Spatial direction: Qudus Onikeku in collaboration with Adèle Hamelin, Mathilde Coudière-Kayadjanian, Inès Forgues, Michel Abdallah, Alma Bousquet
Sculptor: Olayinka Oladosu (Osha)
Oraqu software development team: Jubril Olambiwonnu, Jamaal Fashola, Temitayo Giwa
Production: Hajarat Alli / Qdance Company. YK Projects, Paris.
Coproduction: Ircam/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Biennale de la danse – Lyon
Produced and realised in the framework of the New Worlds artistic creation support programme
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© Adagp, Paris, 2023. Photo © Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Philippe Migeat/Dist. Rmn-Gp
Elevations
Visual arts Exhibition
In the same vein as Qudus Onikeku’s installation Out of this World, this display comprises four spectacularly tall sculptures placed like columns in the corners of the gallery. They mark out a sort of sacral space, a square temple in which the circle of the installation is enclosed.
Echoing the voices of Out of this World, these bronze, plaster and wooden totems embody the presence of spirits, syncretically arranged in suggestive forms imagined by great modern artists: Étienne-Martin, Alicia Penalba, François Stahly and Jacques Zwobada.
One of the sculptures has not been displayed for some time, while two others are new acquisitions by the museum.
Continuous exhibition
Guided tour – Sunday, 11 June 2023
Friday, 9 June 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-5:30pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
Exhibitions Elevations Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art Qudus Onikeku's installation | |
| 5:30pm-7pm | Closing of the gallery 3 |
| 7pm-10pm | Meeting, performance Out of This World by/with Qudus Onikeku
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Saturday, 10 June 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-5:30pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
Exhibitions Elevations Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art Qudus Onikeku's installation | |
| 2pm-5:30pm | Workshop "Tell Me Your World" Around the work of Qudus Onikeku and a selection of the museum’s works |
| 5:30pm-7pm | Closing of the gallery 3 |
| 7pm-10pm | Meeting, performance Out of This World by/with Qudus Onikeku
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Sunday, 11 June 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-3:30pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
Exhibitions Elevations Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art Qudus Onikeku's installation | |
| 11:30am-12:30am | Guided tour Tour of the "Elevations" exhibition |
| 3:30pm-5pm | Closing of the gallery 3 |
| 5pm-8pm | Meeting, performance Out of This World by/with Qudus Onikeku
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Qudus Onikeku
Dance
Moviment
1 venue 10 chapters 100 revelations
3 May – 14 July 2023
Exhibitions I Performances I Workshops I Meetings I Screenings
Gallery 3, Centre Pompidou
Free access
– except show on reservation
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