Africanus Okokon

Africanus Okokon works with moving image, sound, performance, installation, painting, assemblage and collage to explore the dialectics of forgetting and memory in relation to mediated cultural and shared and personal histories. He is interested in questions around language, translation, cultural transformation, decay and death as they relate to recorded media.

Africanus has screened films at various festivals including the BlackStar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, True/False Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and the Chale Wote Street Art Festival. His work has been exhibited and showcased at Von Ammon Co, Mass MoCA, Sean Kelly Gallery, Helena Anrather Gallery, Microscope Gallery, the International Print Center in New York, Perrotin Gallery and The Kitchen. His work has been featured and reviewed in publications such as Artforum, The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR), New American Paintings, PopMatters, Electronic Sound Magazine and The Wire: Adventures in Sound and Music. He was awarded the prestigious NXTHVN Fellowship in 2021–22. Africanus is represented by Von Ammon Co in Washington, DC.