Writings
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A Border Philosophy
24 November 2014
Borders are not autonomous objects but vacuums made tangible by the pressure between differences — and the question is whether that vacuum is widened by opposition or scaled into a stage where relationship is worked through.
Where it has been Berlin
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Exploring a Void — “The Middle Ground”
26 January 2015
The primary text of the enquiry: the void developed as an interstitial or middle ground, through Homi Bhabha, Chinua Achebe and Trans-Africanism, and carrying A Study of Things, Ferkessédougou, 2014.
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A Photographer’s Note (I)
5 April 2016
Photography as a window onto rarely perceived possibilities of existence; meaning as the distance between doubt and certainty; seeing as a form of listening.
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Poetics of Location: Beyond “Africa Focus” of the Paris Art Fair 2017
18 April 2017
The middle ground extended into negotiation and exchange, through Glissant’s Relation, distance and rhizomatic movement.
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Photography
Dream Chamber
2018
Imposed cartographies as they are lived and reinterpreted daily by ordinary travelling and indigenous Africans.
Where it has been Lagos → Kigali
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Publication · Photography
Dream Chamber and Other Stories of Journeys
2019
A chapbook from the 2018 Lagos–Maputo road trip, in the Invisible Borders chapbook series: the photographs set with the poem written alongside them.
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Seeing in the Eye: On Photography and the Gaze
7 February 2019
Photography and the gaze: what it is to see, and to be seen, across a distance that has been organised.
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On the Imaginative Power of Delineation
27 February 2024
Delineation, refraction, borders, relation and hyphenated space, against the fixing of categories.
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Akinbode Akinbiyi’s Photographs Put Worlds in Relation: Being, Seeing, Wandering at the Berlinische Galerie
28 September 2024
Writing that returns to the film’s account of wandering as a self-referential journey.
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Digital
Footprints — Parable of the Sojourner
2025 —
A living poetry anthology conceived, written and designed by Emeka Okereke.
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Transdisciplinarity as the Ahistorical State of Being
27 July 2025
Transdisciplinarity as a state of being rather than a method: movement held in flight as intention and intervention, refusing the perch from which identity, discipline and history might fix it.
