kelechi agwuncha
website Santa Fe, NM and Chicago, IL
Artist Bio
kelechi agwuncha (b.Chicago, IL) is an Igbo-American filmmaker, video & sound installation artist who uses a structuralist approach to create a set of interventions upon sports & bodily movement that become rehearsals of play. As a former athlete, they are interested in playing with the theatrics & embodiment of performative techniques of endurance. Their work has been exhibited in spaces including OpenTV, Black International Cinema Berlin, MoMA PS1, Pitchfork Music Festival, Bulk Space Detroit and the Chicago Architectural Biennial. They received an MFA in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego and studied under the Isaac Julien Lab of the University of California, Santa Cruz.