Those who whisper to the earth on our mortal behalf with poetry and performance. The art and ecology of Precious Okoyomon & Otobong Nkanga.

Precious and I will be talking about the work of Otobong Nkanga and Precious Okoyomon. Both of these artists have created practices that are about a holistic engagement with their individual self, communal self and how these selves interact with the ecology around them. They pull from histories of extraction in the natural world and touch on colonial legacies, slavery, blackness and what it means to be a human who is actively in tune with their environment today.