UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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A Lagos Sound Archive
Timilehin Oludare
My name is Timilehin Oludare, I’m an experimental surrealist Artist from Lagos Nigeria.
My practice spans across different mediums such as ; drawing/ painting, scent , sound and so on. I applied for the Foreign Objekt research residency to better understand the use of sound as an art form, so far I’ve gather and learnt so much which has allowed me to created a sound project titled “A Lagos Sound Archive”, the making of this project had started as early as august 2022 which started with me recording sounds around me I find interesting, at the time I had no plans for the recorded sounds, while attending the online workshop provided by Foreign Objekt research residency I decided to look into the recorded sounds and Create sometime with them.
WHAT IS “A LAGOS SOUND ARCHIVE” ?
A Lagos sound archive is a series of sounds merged together to embody each elements of the cultural Environment of Lagos , this sounds are recorded then merged to embody each elements such as; Transportation, Religion, Education, language, Food and so on , as it is still an ongoing project I was able to create a sound that embodies transportation in Lagos, Nigeria which as included as a part of the sound laboratory publication exhibition . As I move forward I’ll create the other series of sounds that will embody each elements of the cultural Environment of Lagos
WHAT THE PURPOSE FOR THIS PROJECT ( A LAGOS SOUND ARCHIVE)?
To Archive. To experiment with the idea and way of archiving, in Nigeria as a whole Archiving has been a huge topic as we have a very poor Archive management system which as caused the lose of years worths of documents and records, as a person from the younger generation I believe it is a duty to improve our Archiving system, I merged this responsibility with my artistic practice to create an experimental and surreal way to be apart of the solution to the archiving crisis in Nigeria