Nana Oforiatta Ayim residency
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a writer, filmmaker and historian, based in Accra, Ghana. Interested in international diplomacy, she studied political science with Russian language and literature, and worked in the Department of Political Affairs of United Nations in New York, before completing a Masters in African Art History, and embarking on a PhD in African Languages and Cultures at SOAS, University of London. She began writing on art and cultural history whilst working with the African arts publisher Revue Noire in Paris; and has since written essays for magazines and books, such as frieze, Manifesta , and African Metropolitan Architecture . After doing an authorised translation of Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’ film on African Art, Les Statues Meurent Aussi , she went on to make the films Crossover, A Shred of Identity, and Tied and True , regularly shown at institutions like Tate Modern , London, and the New Museum , New York. She set up and runs the cultural research centre ANO in Ghana, which is currently creating new narratives and archives, through its large-scale Cultural Encyclopaedia project; by archiving and digitising early Ghanaian photography as part of an organisational collective; and through a film series documenting Ghana’s contemporary cultural practise. More information: http://anoghana.org