'Good Boy!'

The piece is an exploration of self-soothing following grief, loss and trauma - an aftercare ritual for artist and audience to go through together.

The central element and inspiration is Nwando’s experience whilst having a miscarriage of watching dog grooming videos.

This work is part of ‘After Care’, part of the British Council's Biennials Connect Programme, and will comprise live and pre-recorded contributions from: Christopher Cozier, Roo Dhissou, Nwando Ebizie & Languid Hands’ Rabz Lansiquot and Imani Mason Jordan.

It will take the below provocation as a starting point:

‘How do we consider and care for artists and audiences after the work is done? – thinking about the work after the work.’

Nwando has been featured with BBC Radio 4: For Thought, describing how she experiences the world through her ‘Visual Snow’.

Accessibility as Innovative Creativity and the Use of the Sensory Space

The SWCTN Immersion Showcase demonstrates the breadth of the conversation across practitioners from wildly different traditions – writers, artists, theatre makers, engineers, games designers, dancers, coders and more – who have gathered in the place called ‘immersive’. Nwando Ebzie was a guest speaker and gave a talk on Distorted Constellations: Ritualising Augmented Reality: Accessibility as Innovative Creativity and the Use of the Sensory Space.

An improvised gathering of diasporic thinkers and practitioners, the day of study will seek to critically reverberate fugitive senses, feelings and transmissions of an uncommon and unknowable in advance, ‘brown commons,’ in the words of José Esteban Muñoz. Nwando Ebizie is invited to Amsterdam to be a guest speaker: Distorted Constellations: Afrofuturist Landscapes.

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On the cusp of emotional collapse in 2015, Nwando Ebizie discovered that she had a rare neurological disorder called ‘visual snow’. Since then, she has been exploring the neuroscience of perception, collaborating with neuroscientists and artists on the idea that all our realities are broken. Sharing findings from research undertaken as part of her Artsadmin Artist Bursary, Nwando invited her audience  to consider that our weird perceptual distortions are, in fact, a superpower.

She presented the lecture as part ‘performance’ through her pop-persona Lady Vendredi, alongside fellow guest speakers Dr Edward Bracey and Jonathan Grieve.