Chizu Anucha
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Chizu Anucha (aka chizu nnamdi) is the Scottish artist awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 2 programme.
A Scotsman of Nigerian origin, Chizu Anucha graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in structural engineering and architectural design, and holds a Master of Design in sound for the moving image from Glasgow School of Art.
His multidisciplinary and collaborative practice is at the intersection of music composition, video and performance. His moving image work is poetic and reflexive, while his music brings together internal conflicts, yearnings and nostalgic relics to investigate the historical tensions inherent in the publicness of the black body. With this he experiments in the formation of historical and fictional narratives, often by recontextualizing archive film and collages of VHS video with a music soundtrack at the fore.
His work has been presented in numerous festivals, museums and contemporary art centres in Scotland, including the Royal Glasgow Institute (2020), Edinburgh Art Festival (2021), Victoria & Albert Museum Dundee (2021), David Dale Gallery (2022), Burrell Collection (2023) and Glasgow Short Film Festival (2023).