David Odiase is a transdisciplinary poet and member of the African Narrative Collective whose practice traverses the interstices of poetry, performance, film, installation, indigenous technologies, and speculative methodologies. His work critically engages with Africa’s entangled histories, epistemologies, and cultural imaginaries, often seeking to dismantle hegemonic narratives and foreground ancestral knowledge systems as vital instruments for reworlding.

Odiase’s moving-images, performance works and art installations have been presented at institutions and festivals across Africa, Europe and the Americas, including the Akdemie Der Kunst Berlin, African International Film Festival (Nigeria), Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Germany), SOMA (Mexico), the National Poetry Library (UK), Kampnagel Hamburg, POETAS DI(N)VERSOS (Spain), E-WERK Luckenwalde’s Human Machine Fellowship in the context of the Ancestral Memory Lab exhibition, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House for World Cultures) as part of the Berlin Science Week. 

He was also an artist-in-residence at Studio Quantum, an international events and artist-in-residence programme from the Goethe-Institut, exploring emerging quantum technologies through the lens of art, organised by the Goethe Institut Ireland.