{"id":95,"date":"2015-06-18T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2015-06-18T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T22:22:38","slug":"jelili-atiku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/jelili-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Jelili Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>JELILI ATIKU<\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left\">Nigeria<br \/>\nSunday, September 22, 2013 2:30pm<br \/>\nSite-specific performance, location TBA<\/h6>\n<h4>Biography<\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Jelili Olorunfunmi Atiku was born into royal lineage on September 27, 1968 in the ancient town of Ejigbo, Lagos State, Nigeria. Calling himself a \u2018human rights artist\u2019, his sculptures and performances are devoted to the advocacy of human rights, social justice, and egalitarian political practices. His performance \u201cShadows in the Dark\u201d at the National Museum (Onikan, Lagos, 2004) and sculpture installation \u201cEwawo: The Awaiting Trial Persons\u201d (Lagos, 2005) both campaign for Nigerian penal and prison reform. His sculpture installation \u201cFree the Press\u201d was presented as an exhibition at the Committee for Relevant Art\u2019s 8th Book and Art Festival (2006). Recently he staged \u201cStop The Killings\u201d at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Lagos State House of Assembly, and Ejigbo Police Divisional Headquarters in Lagos to demonstrate against extra judicial killings, especially political killings in Nigeria. The performance piece \u201cThe Refugees\u201d was presented at All Nigeria University Research Fair (2008), while \u201cPeace, Peace &amp; Peace\u201d and \u201cRed or White?\u201d were presented at the United Nations Information Centre (2008). Atiku has also participated in many group exhibitions and art workshops, including Standing Against Poverty at the United Nations Information Centre (Lagos, 2007), Art Against Poverty at the 9th Book and Art Festival (2007), and End Poverty Now at Lagos State House of Assembly (2007).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">He holds degrees in visual art from the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria and the University of Lagos in Akoka, Lagos and is the founder and chief coordinator of the Advocate for Human Rights Through Arts (AHRA), president of the Movement for Creative Drawing, and secretary for the Police Community Relations Committee, Ejigbo Chapter, Lagos State. Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>Video<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELskQaL8uOo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JELILI ATIKU Nigeria Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:30pm Site-specific performance, location TBA Biography Jelili Olorunfunmi Atiku was born into royal lineage on September 27, 1968 in the ancient town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}