Abbéy Odunlami
Abbéy Odunlami is a theoretician and curator specializing in contemporary urban history and visual culture who lectures at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Odunlami's research analyzes the socio-political nature of contemporary urban society through investigating the impact of art, hierarchical structures within conspicuous consumption practices and postcolonial globality. His work examines the interdependencies which form the set of conditions that inform the built environment.
As of October 2020
Events
The Shape of a Practice
Field Station 5 – Migration: Perspectives on Displacement in the Anthropocene
Abbéy Odunlami with Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Roberto Forin, Fawad Durrani, Sabine Minninger and others
Live-Podcast
Oct 30–Nov 26, 2020
The Shape of a Practice
Place and Space
With Imani Jacqueline Brown, Brian Holmes, Margarida Mendes, Huiying Ng, moderated by Abbéy Odunlami
Conversation
Oct 29, 2020
The Shape of a Practice
The Current
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
Installation
Oct 26, 2020–Feb 28, 2021