Ẹ̀dùmarè, When Am I? p2p

Ẹ̀dùmarè, When Am I? is an interactive media performance that examines Blackness as temporality—not simply as a question of identity, but as an unfolding, non-linear existence. Drawing inspiration from Michelle M. Wright’s Physics of Blackness, which reframes Blackness as a “when” rather than a “what,” and invoking Ẹ̀dùmarè, the Yoruba omnipresent deity of creation, the work explores how Black being is lived, perceived, and embodied across alternate realities. It intertwines theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, scientific racism, faith, and African cosmologies, asking how time itself becomes felt, embodied, and historicized within Black life.

In the performance, a performance poet runs on a treadmill, his movement captured and translated into a digitally rendered silhouette projected onto a screen. Behind this figure, visuals drift and shift, creating a layered field where body, data, and image coexist. The performance becomes an act of witnessing the self in motion — of tracing how Black embodiment carries memory, resistance, and becoming through intersecting worlds of the physical and the aphysical, the visible and the unseen. Ẹ̀dùmarè, When Am I? situates this encounter as a meditation on presence itself: how one exists, is remembered, and continues to move through histories that are still unfolding.

David Odiase is a fantastic rebel, transdisciplinary artist, and member of the African Narrative Collective whose practice traverses the interstices of poetry, performance, film, indigenous technologies, and speculative methodologies. His work critically engages with Africa’s entangled histories, epistemologies, and cultural imaginaries, often seeking to dismantle hegemonic narratives and foreground ancestral knowledge systems as vital instruments for reworlding.

Odiase’s moving-image and performance works have been presented at institutions and festivals across Africa, Europe, and the Americas, including the African International Film Festival (Nigeria), ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Germany), SOMA (Mexico), the National Poetry Library (UK), Kampnagel Hamburg, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of Berlin Science Week.

His current inquiries draw on the convergence of quantum mechanics and African indigenous philosophies, investigating concepts such as quantum memory, retrocausality, and the non-linearity of time. Anchored in Afrocentric ontologies, his work proposes a reparative framework for cultural restitution—one that reconfigures temporality and collective memory as emancipatory tools. He is currently completing a degree program in Culture and Museum Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Instagram: @thedavidodiase www.instagram.com/thedavidodiase

Ìfẹ́ọ́lúwa Ọ̀ṣúnkọ́yà (known professionally as Skodo) is a Creative Technologist, XR Artist, and 3D Environment Designer. With a background in architecture and media studies, Skodo holds a BSc in Architecture and an MA in Cultural and Media Studies from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.

They were the 2023/24 Goethe-Institut Studio Quantum Artist-in-Residence in both Lagos and Dublin, as well as the 2024 SPATIAL AFFAIRS Artist-in-Residence in Basel. Their work has been exhibited at Mesh Festival (Basel) and Fertile Void (HKW, Berlin). Skodo previously served as the Unity VR Developer for the award-winning project We Speak Their Names in Hushed Tones, winner of the IDFA DocLab Forum and exhibited at SXSW 2024. They are also a two-time winner of Meta’s Spark AR competitions.

Portfolio website: https://osunkoyaife.wixsite.com/skodo/portfolio

Instagram: www.instagram.com/skodo_lee

Emem Daniel is a documentary filmmaker, video producer, and media consultant based in Lüneburg. She is currently pursuing a degree in Digital Media at Leuphana University Lüneburg in partnership with Hamburg Media School, where she continues to refine her skills in media production and management. With years of experience in storytelling and visual communication, Emem has worked across filmmaking, content development, and strategic media consulting.

LinkedIn: Emem Daniel https://www.linkedin.com/in/thismediagirl?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app