Ezi Odozor’s commissioned long-form poem, with audio/visual components creates a narrative arc between the exhibitions History Is Rarely Black or White and With Opened Mouths.
The poem invites guests into the space, offering a passageway to the world of the work, but also standing as a bridge for the multiple worlds we all inhabit. The poem functions with roots and routes for interpretation and experience that are both at once unique and shared.
Ezi (Ezinwanne) Odozor is a Nigerian-born writer, student support specialist, and anti-racist practitioner based in Toronto. Her work, both fiction and non-fiction, focuses on themes of identity, culture, gender, race, health and intimacy. Her writing has also been showcased in multiple exhibits, most notably in Oluseye’s “A Room Full of Black Boys,” which was featured on CBC.
Contributors to the digital extension of Spirit Banter:
Project coordinator: Danuta Sierhuis
Videography and editing: Ryan B. Drake
Cast: Henry Mitchell, Ezi Odozor and Oluseye Ogunlesi
Podcast interviews: Bruce Kauffman and Ezi Odozor
Audio editing: Bruce Kauffman and Danuta Sierhuis
Copyediting: Kate Yüksel
Photography: Ali Dixon, Paul Litherland and Ezi Odozor
Wordmark: Mark Birksted and Ezi Odozor
Page layout: Ezi Odozor and Danuta Sierhuis
Design: Studio Blackwell (Kelsey Blackwell with Jessica Atkinson and Jonathan Gallivan)
Spirit Banter is a commissioned long-form poem with audio/visual components written and produced by Ezi (Ezinwanne) Odozor.
Spirit Banter: Ezi Odozor is organized by and presented at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON from 27 November 2021 to 30 January 2022.
Curator: Emelie Chhangur
This exhibition is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
