ARTIST OF THE WEEK Olu Taiwo Part 3 Pioneers of the Sky at Boscombe Down Aviation Collection

ARTIST OF THE WEEK - Dr Olu Taiwo, Part 3 Pioneers of the Sky Presented at Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum Airfield
Shining a spotlight on artists

Each week, through a series of short films, we will profile one of the amazing artists who either live locally or has worked with Wiltshire Creative.

RETROSPECTIVE

Our artist of the week Dr Olu Taiwo who teaches in Acting, Immersive and Digital performance as well as physical theatre at the University of Winchester talks to Louise Dancy about the range of work that he has presented at Wiltshire Creative over the years and how it has impacted him.

Part 1 Retrospective and Creative Inspiration

Part 3 Pioneers of the Sky Presented at Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum Airfield

Part 4 Yoruba Sonnets Presented at Salisbury Arts Centre, 2019

He has a background in Fine Art, Street Dance, African percussion, physical theatre, martial arts, T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Animal spirit movement. Olu has performed in national and international contexts pioneering concepts surrounding practice as research. This includes how practice can explore the relationships between ‘effort’, ‘performance’ and ‘performative actions’. Consequently, his aim is to propagate issues concerning the interaction between the body, identity, audience, street and technology in the digital age. His interests include: Visual design, Movement, Theatre, Street Arts, New technology, Trans-cultural studies, Geometry, and Philosophy. He is currently finishing a Spoken word tour with double Grammy award winning percussionist Lekan Babalola and his Jazz ensemble. He is currently Director of Transcultural studied as part of the newly created institute of the Making of the Actor based in Athens. His publications range from, The Return Beat in Wood (Ed.): The Virtual Embodied. Routledge. Music, Art and Movement among the Yoruba: in Harvey (Ed.): Indigenous Religions Cassell (2000), to Art as Eudaimonia: Embodied identities and the Return beat in Susan Broadhurst and Josephine Machon (ed.), Identity, performance and technology: practices of empowerment, embodiment and technicity. Palgrave Macmillan (2012).


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