30 Minutes with... Serge Attukwei Clottey, Artist #TheAccraSeries
This second interview of #TheAccraSeries is the first of the '30 minutes with...' interviews focusing on the African creative sector/actors.
This second interview of #TheAccraSeries is the first of the '30 minutes with...' interviews focusing on the African creative sector/actors.
In this video, Rama Salla Dieng interviews Serge Attukwei Clottey an eclectic Ghanaian artist working across installation, performance, painting, photography and sculpture at his Labadi Studio. This interview focuses on Clottey's major performances and installations such as 'Sex & Politics in Ghana', 'Whose puppet are you?', 'The Displaced' and 'My Mother's wardrobe'. Through his art, Serge explores narratives of personal, family and collective histories often relating to trade and migration. Based in Accra and working internationally, Serge is the creator of #Afrogallonism, an artistic concept that comments on consumption within modern Africa through the utilisation of yellow gallon containers. Through cutting, drilling, stitching and melting found materials, Clottey’s sculptural installations are bold assemblages that act as a means of inquiry into questions of form and history. As the founder of Ghana’s GoLokal performance collective, Clottey sees art as a way to transform society. With aspects of activism prevalent in his practice, his works challenge convention and advocate the importance of creativity.