The panel, part of the 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program, will explore performance as a means of challenging colonial narratives, recovering marginalized histories and reactivating indigenous knowledge.
Third Space Art Foundation, in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (CCA Lagos), is pleased to present Decolonizing the Archive through Performance, a panel discussion exploring the role of performance in challenging colonial narratives and expanding understandings of the archive.
Part of the 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program, the event will take place on Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 10:30 am to 12:15 pm at the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos, 9 McEwen Street, Yaba, Lagos.
The panel will consider how performance art can challenge the perspectives embedded in colonial archives while recovering histories, memories and forms of knowledge that have been marginalized or excluded. It will also examine how restitution might extend beyond the physical return of cultural heritage to include the embodied reactivation of displaced memories, cultural practices and indigenous knowledge systems.
Taking the 1922 Revisited program and Jelili Atiku’s Eyes No Dey Forget Wetin Heart See as points of departure, the conversation will explore performance as a mode of contesting dominant historical narratives, transmitting indigenous knowledge and imagining new collective futures through African epistemologies.
The discussion will bring together artists and cultural practitioners whose work engages performance, scholarship, filmmaking and contemporary artistic practice.
Panelists
Jelili Atiku – Visual and Performance Artist
Taiwo Aiyedogbon – Visual and Performance Artist
Tolulope Ami-Williams – Performance Artist, Art Educator and Songwriter
Akin Oladimeji – Scholar and Writer
Jumoke Sanwo – Filmmaker and Director of Revolving Art Incubator
The panel will be moderated by Oyindamola Faithful, Arts Consultant and Cultural Producer.
Event Details
Event: Decolonizing the Archive through Performance
Program: 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2026
Time: 10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos
Address: 9 McEwen Street, Yaba, Lagos
The event is presented through the partnership between Third Space Art Foundation and CCA Lagos, with additional program partners including The Africa Centre, FCA Ghana, ECC Italy, AAV Forum, NEWMEDIA, University of Arkansas School of Art and University of Arkansas Art History.
Through this conversation, Decolonizing the Archive through Performance invites audiences to consider how artistic practice can open new pathways for engaging with history, reclaiming cultural memory and envisioning more inclusive futures.
Join us at CCA Lagos for this timely conversation on performance, history, restitution and the possibilities of decolonizing the archive.
