Interview with Otobong Nkanga at 14 Rooms

Otobong Nkanga work has been chosen by the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach to participate in the Live Art exhibition 14 Rooms, which ran concurrently to this year's Art Basel art fair in Basel (Switzerland). For this show, Otobong Nkanga conceived the work Diaspore, a performance that consists of one to three women always carrying the plant Cestrum Nocturnum, also known as Queen of the Night. In constant dialogue with the plant, these women navigate through a topographical map on the floor. In this video, Otobong Nkanga speaks with Mirjam Baitsch (Fondation Beyeler) about the idea behind her work.

14 Rooms was presented by Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel. The curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist invited fourteen international artists to each activate a room, exploring the relationship between space, time, and physicality with an artwork whose "material" is the human being.

Otobong Nkanga: Diaspore, 2014. 14 Rooms Live Art Exhibition. Messe Basel, Basel (Switzerland), June 10, 2014.

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