Excavation | Elevation: Precarious verticality in Nairobi
7 February 2024
Research Seminar, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham
This research seminar presented the Excavation / Elevation visual research and exhibition undertaken in collaboration with James Muriuki. Moving from quarries where stone is cut to construction sites, prestige developments to dense tenement housing, building collapses to salvage economies of scrap, the collaborative fieldwork has so far led to three short films, photographic series and sculptural installations, as well as two exhibitions in Nairobi. The seminar reflected on this multi-modal research and how visual methods helped to engage with both the surface and the underneath of Nairobi’s emerging verticality.