Chizu Anucha (aka chizu nnamdi)

audiovisual artist, musician, engineer

b. 1995, Scotland

currently based in Glasgow, UK

Chimzuruoke (Chizu) Anucha is a Scottish afrodiasporic artist of Igbo Nigerian heritage, currently based in Glasgow and working across sound and moving image. His practice is multi-disciplinary and collaborative, meeting at the intersection of music composition, moving image, installation and performance.

His moving image practice is research-based: centring the politics of cultural representation onscreen and the romanticisation of everyday practices through poetic and reflexive styles of documentary filmmaking. He experiments with the formation of historical and fictional narratives, often by recontextualising archived moving images as a means to explore the onscreen depiction of marginalised cultural identities.

He replicates these motivations through his music, working alongside emerging audiovisual artists, DJs and creatives who inspire his portrayal of Glasgow's underground subcultural landscape.

education

2018-2019 MDes Sound for the Moving Image, The Glasgow School of Art

2013-2017 BEng (Hons) Structural Engineering with Architectural Design, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

exhibitions

2020___pidgin, Royal Glasgow Institute Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

2019___pidgin, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

2019___memoirs in circular motion, The Art School, Glasgow

publications

2019___Does the Responsibility of Intellectuals Include Artists?, New Mind's Eye

talks

2020___Allsorts RGI Artist Film Festival, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow

2019_boil the rice: session one_The Art School, Glasgow

2018_Baldwin's Nigger Reloaded II_w/ Barby Asante and sorryyoufeeluncomfortable___GoMA, Glasgow