live and action art in Ghana.
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Artist and Performance Art Groups
- Nil Amasah Abifao
- Ras Sankara Agboka
- Fatric Bewong
- Serge Attukwei Clottey
- Taiwo Aiyedogbon
- Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (crazinisT artisT)
- George Afedzi Hughes (working US)
- Silas Mensah
- Effie Nkrumah
- Percy Nii Nortey
- Nobukho Nqaba
- Shelly Ohenenyarko
- Yvonne Osei
- Martin Toloku
- Victoria-Idongesit Udondian
- Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi
- Chale Wote Street Art Festival (James Town, Accra) – the essential recurring public platform where much current Ghanaian performance work is staged and where new performers first become visible. Organized by ACCRA[dot]ALT. Has featured Clottey and Fiatsi, among many others.
- FRIISLAND LIVE: Radical Empathy – “Healing” is the uniting concept in the practices of Va-Bene Fiatsi (GH) and Marcus Coates (UK). One has studied as a priest, the other as a shaman. Both rely on the ability of performance to create identification and radical empathy. By taking on pain, suffering and hardship for others, they share and transform these experiences.
- ‘Okrika Reclaimed’: Confronting fast fashion’s fallout through art
- Rhoda Woets (2019) “Young Artists Can Try Out Everything”: Redefining Contemporary Ghanaian Art in the 21st century, Critical Interventions, 13:1, 4-20, DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2020.1760054 (link downloads PDF)