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The Ens Project by Leo Asemota


This is a Temporary website for The Ens Project an ongoing multipartite work of art by Nigerian born London based artist Leo Asemota.


Asemota has been evolving The Ens Project since spring 2005. The Project’s formative and creative impetus are ancient and contemporary Nigeria’s Edo peoples of Benin’s rich tradition of art and ceremony and their annual Igue rite to the Head; Victorian Britain’s history of invention, exploration and conquest in which the sacking and looting of the former Kingdom of Benin is of particular interest; and the essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by the German cultural theorist Walter Benjamin.


This Temporary website presents an overview of the Project’s phases, its history, list of works and an ens cyclopædia of related subject matter.

Phase 1 First Principles first_principles.htmlfirst_principles.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
Phase 2 The Handmaiden the_handmaiden.htmlthe_handmaiden.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0
Phase 3 Eo ipso
Project Historyproject_history.htmlproject_history.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0
Ens Cyclopædiaens_cyclopaedia.htmlens_cyclopaedia.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0
Contactcontact.htmlcontact.htmlshapeimage_7_link_0
List of workslist_of_works.htmllist_of_works.htmlshapeimage_8_link_0
 

Count Off for Eo ipso

(2012)

Performed in the Tanks at Tate Modern, Count Off for Eo ipso establishes Phase 3 in The Ens Project.

Invoking the Project’s 7-year history and Tate Gallery’s conversion of Bankside power station’s subterranean oil tanks, the multi-site performance which included the forecourt at St. Paul’s Cathedral as well as the Millennium Bridge, enacted 14 alternate cycles in the transfiguration of The Handmaiden who makes an appearance using the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who designed the former power station, as an avatar.

© 2013 - 2017  Leo Asemota / EoTLA   All Rights Reserved         

Count Off for Eo ipso: Replay Only memory

HD video, colour, sound.

Sash of Fulfilment

(2013)

Sash of Fulfilment was a parade at the British Museum by characters from the performances ens memoralis, The longMarch of Displacement and Count Off for Eo ipso. 


Staged to mark the completion of their involvement in The Ens Project, the 10 characters were draped in a grey double satin sash with graphite on paper drawings of suits for various stages in the Project.

Sash of Fulfilment: The Suits

2013

Media: 10 grey double satin sashes, 10 black glass headed pins, 10 white glass headed pins, 10 kilt pins with black cording, white cording and graphite drawings on paper, 3 medals with ribbons, 3 red, white and blue cording.

Dimensions variable