Halima Haruna

About:

Halima Haruna is a Nigerian artist and researcher living in the U.S. 

Her research interests are at the intersection of the decolonisation of knowledge and epistemology through spiritual practice. Her creative practice revolves around cultural theory based on Nigerian socio-politics, mediated through performance and video. She deals primarily with collaborative, educational and community-based projects that can disrupt mainstream narratives. She is interested in magic, myth and fantasy as points of departure for decolonial practice.

Her most recent research trajectory ‘WE NO ALGORITHM’ is an exploration of narrative/mathematical models in the Ifa divination structure. The project will imagine and produce experimental web page building systems based on the Ifa models.

She recently completed a Digital Earth 2019 fellowship, and received a MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018. 

Selected exhibitions:

To Divine and Other Side of the Creek in Languid Hands presents 'away, completely: denigrate at Narrative Projects, London (11/2019 - 02/2020) 

Other Side of the Creek at the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters (11/2019 - 01/2020)

Other Side of the Creek in Video Art Talk- 001 [solo show] at A Walk Space, Abuja. (04/2019)

How to be Untranslatable: Directions in iiliimi lipsing (vol. 3, Oct. 2018) of Paperwork Magazine, London.

Group show with SorryYouFeelUncomfortable in But What Are You Doing About White Supremacy? at Many Studios for Glasgow International 2018. (03/2018)

Ancestor Research Project: Earth as Oracle Work for Digital Earth Fellowship, Netherlands (092018 – 03/2019)

Date of residency: 28.2.2020 – 20.4.2020.