/// Tutùọlá Institute
The project White Money centers on addressing the complex issues relating to the administration of funds and the power play between institutions and cultural operators in the Global North and Global South. In response to this dichotomy, Aderemi Adegbite decided to set up a cultural institute within the scope of “white money”. Tutùọlá Institute is a legal non-profit organization conceived as an alternative artistic platform for critical reflection and practices in our postcolonial world. The institute will promote Yoruba language, cultures in different countries and foster international cooperation as well as collaboration with private, governmental cultural institutions, artists, and creatives. At its inauguration at the Sophiensæle, Tutùọlá Institute presented an exhibition featuring video installations.
Oníṣẹ́-ọnà | Artists Candice Breitz (South Africa/Germany), Mario Pfeifer (Germany), Aline Motta (Brazil), Rehema Chachage (Tanzania) Aláyèwò | Diviner Ahmed Olayode Ògbufọ̀ | Translator Álímì-Adéníran Ọmọ́ṣaléwá Olùwádìí | Researcher Dr. Lekan Balogun Alátinúdá | Designer Seed Adegbite Olùdarí-Gbogbogbo | Director-at-Large Aderemi Adegbite
ADEREMI ADEGBITE “It’s a given that every cultural producer needs funding for a cultural production for both small and large-scale productions. Being on the other side of the divides of the globe has shown how most times cultural productions in the Global South depend largely on funding from the Global North. Indeed, this dichotomy operates on ‘power play’, which flourishes on restrictions and manipulations of ideas and processes. As a cultural producer operating in the Global South, my interest in this project is the possibilities it has to address issues relating to the administration of funds and the power play phenomenon between cultural operators in the Global North and Global South. In my opinion, this project might be all that is needed for the funders to realize the questions that need to be answered in the most dynamic way before administering funding for projects in the Global South.”
ADEREMI ADEGBITE is an artist-curator and an interdisciplinary artist. His current artistic focus questions individual realities and truth(s) that stretch across the societal fabric as constants for an elastic socio-system. He is interested in how past experiences (agonies, joys, businesses, travels and religious beliefs) of being part of a family reshape an individual’s present conditions and serve as catalysts for “the” surrealistic future. The psychological effect of the idea “one for all, all for one,” is at the centre of his new interventions. Aderemi has participated in some residencies/ workshops: AiR at Bayreuth International Graduate Student of African Studies (BIGSAS), AiR with Jogjakarta Biennale, Photography Masterclass with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Goethe-Institut’s Photography Masterclass and The Nlele Institute’s photography workshops.
