Emeka Okereke
The Nkata mark: two speech bubbles in conversation, one ink and one paper, holding the name between them.

Constellation — ongoing

Nkata Podcast

Founder and Host

2019 —

Nkata is the Igbo word for conversation. The project uses the emotive power of voice in the collation, arrangement and transmission of embodied knowledge through the act of listening.

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Nkata is the Igbo word for conversation. Founded during the lockdown, it uses the emotive power of voice to collate, arrange and transmit embodied knowledge through the act of listening — and has since become an exhibition, a teaching resource and a listening situation without ever stopping being a podcast.

Nkata Podcast

What it gathers — 8 traces

  1. 28 February 2019 I wonder as I wander — with Akinbode Akinbiyi Nkata gathers into Listen to the episode
  2. 28 June 2019 EP03 — “No thank you — I will live up to the consequences”, with Jihan El-Tahri Nkata Podcast — Art & Processes gathers into Open the episode
  3. 20 December 2019 EP04 — “My mother told me: I have dreamt of you in colours”, with Otobong Nkanga Nkata Podcast — Art & Processes gathers into Open the episode
  4. 2022—2024 Nkata conversations in the curriculum Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) taught through
  5. 17 April 2022 EP11 — “We were brought up to strive for Eloquence”, with Olu Oguibe Nkata Podcast — Art & Processes gathers into Open the episode
  6. 19 October 2022 EP12 — “We are workers of the Spirit”, with Koyo Kouoh Nkata Podcast — Art & Processes gathers into Open the episode
  7. 2024 Dots of Thoughts ep20 — with Jane Tormey Nkata gathers into Listen to the episode
  8. 18 April 2024 Dilemma of a New Age — in conversation with Alain Missala Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) gathers into See the programme at n.b.k.
Also in this enquiry — 1 further works in the record
  1. 2026 Nkata — the mark in the record

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