“The video work demands active participation from the audience, challenging what they are seeing and forcing them to make their own associations. A live performance component of the work is an improvisational piece by Famodu and his friends and artistic collaborators S*an D. Henry-Smith and Alec Mateo. In a meditative and meandering performance, with vocals and distortions by Henry-Smith and sounds produced electronically by Mateo, Famodu moves around the stage creating, in real time, the sculptures he calls wire characters—holding them, while they take shape. The previously described works are a result of the time Famodu spent at the Design Department of the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam and with the extra-curricular course that was initiated by Famodu, titled Recipes for a Technological Undoing. In this course artists, scholars, and designers from the institute were invited to explore their agency within the relationship between technology and humans. An important takeaway stemmed from the works and writing of author Katherine McKittrick, which opened Famodu’s perspective to the idea that science is in fact a story.” Excerpt from an essay on Ladipo Famodu by Mirelva Berghout