Alexis G. Teyie Back

Alexis G. Teyie is a poet, data scientist, curator, and publisher. Teyie was one of the co-founders of Enkare Review, and currently works with Down River Road (DRR) and Karara Community Library. Previous books include a poetry chapbook, Clay Plates: Broken Records of Kiswahili Proverbs, and a children's book, Shortcut.

Teyie also leads research and advisory for nonprofits, startups, and impact investors.

Drip Drip is Not Drop Drop / Chururu si Ndondondo
2024

In Drip Drip is Not Drop Drop / Chururu si Ndondondo, Alex/is Grace Teyie weaves a lyrical meditation on the ancient and eternal connection between water, life, and language. This evocative piece explores the tension between distance and closeness, past and present, as it calls us to reawaken our attunement to the primordial waters that sustain both body and spirit. Through complex, poetic imagery, Teyie invites readers to navigate the depths of memory, fabulation, and the collective thirst for renewal. As we grapple with the desiccation of our histories and the salt of forgotten longings, Teyie’s work becomes a vessel for rehydrating our shared consciousness. Drip Drip is Not Drop Drop / Chururu si Ndondondo is a call to quench the thirst of generations, drawing us toward a future where we may drink from the pure waters once more.

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For the second edition of the Post-National Digital Pavilion, iniva presents Unseen Guests: a series of commissions of eight artists based in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), working across new media, audiovisual and writing to create new works in dialogue with the work of filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, representing Great Britain at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale

The Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) is an evolving visual arts organisation dedicated to nurturing and disseminating radical and emergent decolonising and unlearning practices centring Global Majority, Indigenous, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx & Diaspora perspectives that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation.

The Pavilion is a series of radical re-imaginings of nationhood, reflecting on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities.

The project is supported by British Council.

Unseen Guests is curated by Beatriz Lobo Britto and Renée Akitelek Mboya, and produced by Leanne Petersen.

Artists developing new works include ibiye Camp, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Gladys Kalichini, Rodrigo Nava Ramirez, Shamica Ruddock, Yaa Addae, Alexis G Teyie and Helena Uambembe.

Unseen Guest Project Team

Sepake Angiama - iniva Artistic Director
Beatriz Lobo - UK Curator
Renée Akitelek Mboya - SSA Curator
Leanne Petersen - Project Producer
Rodrigo Nava Ramirez - Web Development and Design

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