African Design/2016/15 min/Reel № 16.001
ByHelen Isibor-Epega
The Venus Bushfires on storytelling and bridging the middle
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Helen Isibor-Epega takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Nigeria in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Helen's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs as The Venus Bushfires, is an optimist, dreamer and musical storyteller who uses her art to build bridges across cultures.
About the speaker
Helen Isibor-Epega
Lagos/Nigeria
Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise The Venus Bushfires, is a Nigerian-born, London-raised composer, singer-songwriter and performance artist.
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