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Living in time🪔
@eranjijeproject X @batajamsession
Beauty from Imperfect: Hands Saving the Earth at @altshift.festival 20.7 - 27.7 2026

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⏰📣 TONIGHT, my first performance in Nigeria falls spontaneously on the Mid-Autumn Fest in Asia. Double joys!!! 🥳🥳🥳 COME join us for music and visual projection. 🤟🔥

🔔 ENCOUNTERS — OPEN STUDIO�- 25.09.26
Peter D. Abayomi & Lương Huệ Trinh

Sound • Ritual • Performance

🔥🎶 Featured artists: @made_dignity_ @mikie_tblow @godilon_0 @kukustrings_official_
🔥🎥 Visual projection: Simileoluwa Adewale

👆 What happens when artists meet through listening?

Come through for ENCOUNTERS, an open studio session exploring what can emerge when artists meet through sound, movement, ritual, improvisation, and shared presence.

Born from a recent encounter in Nigeria between Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist and composer Peter D. Abayomi, and Vietnamese multimedia composer, sound artist, and electro-acoustic improviser Lương Huệ Trinh, marking her first performance in Nigeria.

Instead of finished works, we're opening up our process - the questions, experiments, gestures, sounds, and exchanges shaping how the work is made.

ENCOUNTERS invites you into a space of making and listening - what happens when we truly listen to one another, when artistic traditions from different regions meet in the vastness of the universe?

🗓️ Friday, 25.09.26
📍 12 Odunsi street, Bariga, Lagos
⏰ 5:30 PM

🤟🤩🔥 Come listen with us. Come into the process.

#LuongHueTrinh #electroacoustic #electronicmusic #openstudio #soundart lagosartscene experimental improvisation concert lagos nigeria hanoi vietnam

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🤟 Today, 11.09, my 11th day in Nigeria, I had a truly inspiring conversation with this talented multidisciplinary Yoruba artist, @iam_peterbata. Can't wait to dive deeper into Nigerian culture. 😃😃

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When the Dùndún ensemble plays, they speak as one.
A gathering of Yoruba talking drums, each hourglass-shaped and hand-tuned, weaving pitch and rhythm together to mimic the tone of human speech. For centuries, this ensemble has carried praise, history, and messages across generations.

This is sound as language. This is Yoruba heritage in motion.

Cc: @pappy_drumz
#TalkingDrum #YorubaCulture #Nigeria #OralTradition

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Today, August 23rd, 2026, marks the 9th and final day of my Open Studio titled, "An Infinite Number of Times."

In this open studio, I showcased works from the very start of my artist journey all the way to the present moment. I gave all guests a special walk through where they gained insight into my inner person. We discussed the themes that haunt my work, and I got to share all my experiments and still private projects with visitors.

What made the gathering so beautiful was the blending of familiar faces with new ones. All sitting in the family home, within the garden that birthed my artistic imagination.

If you haven't stopped by yet, I urge you to add it to your schedule for today. It'll make my day and hopefully yours as well.

Special thanks to @iyanuuuuuuuu @purply__________
@mayyokun @elo.olaniyan for being my third and fourth eyes and for capturing all of these beautiful moments in the studio.

Location: Ikeja
Time: 12pm-8pm

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The Dundun is not just a drum... it’s a language. 🪘🇳🇬

In Yoruba culture, the talking drum speaks. It laughs, it cries, it praises, it warns, it celebrates. One beat and our ancestors hear it. One rhythm and the whole village comes alive.
There’s something so pleasant about Dundun music. The way it rolls like thunder but feels like poetry. The way it bends words with tone, just like our voices do. The way it makes your feet move before your brain even catches up 😌

Dundun carries our history. It announced kings, welcomed newborns, sent warriors to war, and brought communities together at festivals. It’s the heartbeat of our culture, the sound of home.

When you hear Dundun, you don’t just hear music. You hear heritage. You hear pride. You hear Africa talking.
Let’s never let this sound die. Let’s keep dancing, keep listening, keep passing it down.

*What’s your favorite Dundun memory?* 👇🏽❤️

#Dundun #TalkingDrum #YorubaCulture #AfricanRhythm #CultureIsLife ProudlyAfrican

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On 21st July 2026, the Eran Jije Ensemble performed at the German Consulate Lagos reception dinner in honour of @aussenminister @auswaertigesamt - German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.

To have our music in that room, and leave an impact, means everything.

We shared the evening with other dignitaries from Lagos cultural sector, business community, politics, and the diplomatic corps.

It was a great honour to be part of the celebrations of German-Nigerian cooperation - driving commercial investments, exploring business partnerships, and strengthening cultural exchange.

Shout out to @falanamusic and @jiiresmith for filling the room with your incredible voices

And thank you to @ekohotels for the warm hospitality.

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Forging a community for collective survival does not mean retreating into priviliged eco-villages on the outskirts of the capitalist system. It means breaking dependency from extractivist, exploitative and neocolonial supply chains that is profiting on the backs of the global majority. How can the North de-center itself, relinquish imperial privilege, and become a genuine partner in building a multipolar, ecological civilisation? We will practice anti-opression and use power-critical tools to unlearn and deconstruct, while focusing on building a global, anti-colonial network for redistribution.

Swipe to learn more about our 2 amazing delinking workshops by @mihosoon and @iam_peterbata 🍉🗑️💰

In this open-source and upcycling workshop, Peter D. Abayomi invites participants to become active creators, thinkers, and change-makers by exploring the hidden stories behind everyday waste. Rooted in the theme Beauty from Imperfection: Hands Saving the Earth, the workshop encourages participants to see discarded materials not as useless, but as powerful tools for creativity, expression, and environmental action. Working with waste fabrics, offcuts, second-hand garments, plastics, paper, bags, cans, flip flops, cables, and found objects sourced in Freie Feldlage alongside materials transported from Lagos, participants will investigate how waste travels across the world, how these movements reflect deeper inequalities between the Global North and Global South, revealing the urgent need of accountability.

Money is inherently an emotional topic - up to 90% of financial behaviors are made emotionally. It is also connected to class, race, power - in both intimate personal and collective experiences. As it is also one of the biggest taboos in Western society, this combination makes it one of the most charged topics in political organizing and movement building spaces. Talking about money can be difficult, latent with projections and shame, and yet it is more important than ever, when the far right control the majority of the world’s resources, and AI and conflict throw us all into financially uncertain world. In this two part workshop, Miho Soon brings her research about fin

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🎪 Jutri začnemo!
Šotor bo otvoril Odprti oder: Kako si lep moj dragec

Festival trojne salte bo med 29. 5. in 21. 6. pod streho prvega cirkuškega šotora pri nas združil sodobni cirkus, klovnado, glasbo, delavnice in skupnostne dogodke. Združuje:
- festival skupnostnega cirkusa Človek na loncu (Cirkokrog)
- 19. mednarodni festival sodobne klovnade in novega cirkusa Klovnbuf (Zavod Bufeto)
- festival sodobnega cirkusa Trojna salta (Cirkokrog x Mismo Nismo)

Objavljamo celoten program dogajanja v šotoru in ob njem — od predstav in koncertov do odprtega odra, cirkuških delavnic in večerov pod šotorom.

Pridržujemo si pravico do spremembe programa. Spremljate ga lahko tudi na spletni strani: https://festivaltrojnesalte.kompot.si/

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𝘋𝘦𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘫𝘰𝘤̌𝘪 𝘴𝘬𝘶𝘱𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘯𝘪 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘴, 𝘬𝘪 𝘨𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘢 𝘌𝘷𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘫𝘢 𝘪𝘻 𝘚𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘻𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘦 𝘎𝘖! 2025 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘨 𝘝𝘐-𝘈 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘫𝘢-𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘫𝘢 2021-2027, 𝘬𝘪 𝘨𝘢 𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘭𝘫𝘢 𝘌𝘡𝘛𝘚 𝘎𝘖. @interregitaslo

𝘊̌𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘬 𝘯𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘶 𝘫𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘨𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘢 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘴̌𝘬𝘪 𝘳𝘰𝘫, 𝘬𝘪 𝘨𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪 𝘔𝘖𝘓 𝘜𝘳𝘢𝘥 𝘻𝘢 𝘮𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘰.

𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘒𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘫𝘰 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘷𝘰 𝘻𝘢 𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘰 𝘙𝘚, 𝘖𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘬 𝘻𝘢 𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘰 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘤̌𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘫𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘫𝘢𝘯𝘢, 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘫, 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘬𝘰𝘱, 𝘡𝘒𝘛𝘚̌ 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘚𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢, 𝘒𝘋 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘯𝘪 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘫𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘫𝘢𝘯𝘢, 𝘑𝘚𝘒𝘋 𝘙𝘚, 𝘏𝘪𝘴̌𝘢 𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪, 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘰𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦, 𝘚𝘕𝘎 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘴 𝘍𝘶𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘰, 𝘊𝘒 𝘚̌𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘪 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘪, 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘋𝘗𝘎

𝘏𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘬𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘻̌𝘣𝘪 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘥.𝘥. 𝘻𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘻̌𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘻𝘦𝘮𝘭𝘫𝘪𝘴̌𝘤̌𝘢.

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We look forward to welcoming you at our group exhibition THE LAND REMEMBERS, which opens tonight at 6pm May 27th and will be on view until June 2nd at GlogauAir Berlin @glogauair.

The exhibition examines the ongoing realities of Waste Colonialism. The term “Waste Colonialism” describes the export of waste from the Global North to the Global South, where the material consequences of overconsumption are displaced rather than resolved.

THE LAND REMEMBERS brings together works by artists working across video, installation and performance. Participating artists: Austin Nortey @nakus_brand & Chie Marquart-Tabel @chiemarquarttabel, Jamal Nxedlana @jamalaun, Jere Ikongio @afrikanherbalist, Marc Khafre @marckhafre, Mayila Khodadin @mayila_khodadin, Mona Okulla Obua @mona.okulla.obua, Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata @eranjijeproject & Rafael Kouto @rafaelkouto, Ruby Okoro @rubyokoro, and Studio NEiDA @studioneida.

Special thanks to our supporters for making this exhibition possible: @fashionafricanow @contemporaryand @bubblegumclubbb @southnorthconversations @fonds_soziokultur

When: 27 May until 2 June 2026
Opening reception: 27 May 6-10pm

Where: GlogauAir @glogauair, Glogauer Strasse 16, Berlin, Germany
Opening hours: 2-6pm (outside of opening hours: by appointment)

Image credit: CIRCULAR HEROES, 2025

#TheLandRemembers #GroupExhibition #DADDYMagazine

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⚠️ Please note: The Circular Heroes workshop has unfortunately been cancelled due to visa issues.

As part of THE LAND REMEMBERS exhibition, Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata will host the Circular Heroes workshop on the last day of the exhibition 2 June at GlogauAir Berlin @glogauair. Participants are asked to bring their own discarded materials and will receive instructions on methods such as embroidery, applique, and weaving, and experimentally apply them to pre-made printed textiles aiming to visualise waste objects as “activated objects” and portraying local Nigerian teenagers from the Isale Akoka area in Bariga as key players in the circular economy.

The first iterations of the Circular Heroes workshop were hosted by Rafael Kouto @rafaelkouto in collaboration with Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata at Eran Jije Studio @eranjijeproject in Bariga, at G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation in Lagos, Nigeria, and Maison Shift @maisonshift in Zürich, Switzerland.

When: 2 June, 2-5pm
Finissage starting at 6pm.
Where: GlogauAir, Berlin

#TheLandRemembers #DADDYMagazine #GroupExhibition

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MEET OUR FACILITATOR*

Peter D. Abayomi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria exploring sound designing, performance-driven work, upcycling practices, public art and materiality concepts within urban context of Lagos through a dynamic and community based approach, addressing environmental sustainability, climate issues, waste and resources mismanagements by foregrounding African indigenous models, collective imagination and reimagining the idea of modernism, development and futurism on African soil.

Over the years, Abayomi have worked as a *Sound Designer/Composer* for films, exhibitions, art projects, and performances for screen and stage around the world, including but not limited to: *The Water Knows The Truth; Ask* (Commissioned by ASIKO / Art Africa London, UK for *Lost Songs Of The Middle Passage* Exhibition 2025), *SPLICE* Global Sample Pack Recording Project, USA; OneBeat Residency NY; Where Did The Trees Go – a research documentary project supported by *Prince Claus* and Goethe-Institut Nigeria.

Abayomi’s work has been showcased across prestigious global platforms such as the Novas Frequências Festival in Brazil 2018, Floating Transmission Sound Art Festival 2022, Hamburg, participated on Metamorphosis Research 2024, Decamp Volume Stuttgart 2020, OneBeat Residency USA 2021, *TaDa*: TOGETHER Exhibition 2025, Du Vert à l’infini Festival (France) 2023, and Mode Suisse Fashion Show 2025.

His recent work develop under *Eran Jije Project*, Circular Heroes, premiered at *PHOTOVOGUE* Festival (BASE, Milano, Italy) 2025, presented at Maison Shift, Zurich, received the *Earth Partner Prize Award* 2025 and showed at Ras Al-Khaimah Art Festival, UAE 2026, bringing his commitment to environmental themes and cultural preservation to an international audience. His body of work includes, but is not limited to, Call and Response, Environmental Stewardship, Up Nepa, The Water Knows the Truth: Ask It, Planted Not Buried, Fragments Of Home

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Meet the artists for THE LAND REMEMBERS!

Peter D. Abayomi @iam_peterbata, founder Eran Jije Project @eranjijeproject is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria exploring performance driven work, sound, upcycling practices, public art and materiality concepts within urban context of Lagos through a dynamic and community based approach.

Limited edition prints from CIRCULAR HEROES are available for purchase at the exhibition and via our online shop. The project CIRCULAR HEROES is a collaboration between fashion designer Rafael Kouto @rafaelkouto and Peter D. Abayomi’s @iam_peterbata Eran Jije Project @eranjijeproject, photographed by Ruby Okoro @rubyokoro, that documents Nigerian adolescents from the coastal community of Isale Akoka in Bariga as key players of the circular economy. The proceeds will go directly towards supporting the local Nigerian teenagers from the Isale Akoka area in the Bariga community at the heart of this project.

Link in bio to our online shop! 🛒

#TheLandRemembers #GroupExhibition #DADDYMagazine

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