First Friday: Walkthrough with Neema Githere - MOCA Geffen
Friday, January 3, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
First Tour: 6 pm | Second Tour: 7 pm
Free with RSVP

Join us for a walkthrough of Olafur Eliasson’s OPEN led by writer, theorist and Studio Olafur Eliasson fellow Neema Githere.

Neema Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya; they/she) is a writer, artist, and guerrilla theorist whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris.

Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Githere’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span social design, community organizing, travel and digital ritual. Githere has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016 as an undergrad at Yale University, beginning with a project called #digitaldiaspora which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Black cultural workers were articulating renaissance identities on- and offline. Githere’s concept of Afropresentism––a term they coined in 2017 to explore diasporic embodiment in the age of Big Data––has influenced conferences and exhibitions across four continents. Githere has performed, lectured and consulted at a range of educational and cultural institutions including Afrotectopia, Princeton University, the National Museum of Qatar, Microsoft, and Twitter. In 2024, Githere was named as one of Olafur Eliasson's "Artists to Watch".

As a 2023-24 Practitioner Fellow at Stanford University's Digital Civil Society Lab, Githere embarked on a project to develop the guidebook for a digital rehabilitation clinic informed by indigenous frameworks of repair as part of her speculative practice entitled Data Healing.