Emalohi Iruobe and Adey Omotade are interdisciplinary artists whose practices intersect at the confluence of sound, ritual, memory, and the embodied archive. Together, they explore how African cultural and sonic traditions can be reactivated as living tools for collective healing, ecological intelligence, and intergenerational dialogue.

Emalohi Iruobe is a researcher, lawyer, and community organizer whose multidisciplinary practice engages sculpture, performance, film, and installation to interrogate ideological perceptions of African women. Central to her work is a deeply personal archive: textiles, known in Nigeria as aso-ebi, collected by her late mother between 1980 and 2013. Through these materials, Iruobe builds participatory interventions and systems of remembrance that honor ancestral veneration, indigenous knowledge, and the often-unseen labor of African women. She is the founder of Tribe XX Lab, Nigeria’s first co-working and community space for women, which was the subject of UK Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded study and a 2024 documentary on Lagos’ creative economies. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Nigeria), Cité des Arts (Paris), Schloss Balmoral (Germany), the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), and the Lagos Biennial (Nigeria).

Adey Omotade is a Yoruba composer, curator, and ritual sound artist whose work draws on Yoruba cosmology, archival oral histories, and indigenous instrumentation. He constructs immersive soundscapes and spatial installations using field recordings, ambisonic design, and experimental electronics to examine migration, decolonial museology, and the ethics of listening. His projects, such as Niri (Afro Yoruba House) and Irin Aajo (Postafrobeat), have been presented at Centre Pompidou, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Schloss Balmoral, and Alliance Française. Omotade has also led sound research with institutions such as the Wits School of Architecture and has held residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), La Napoule Art Foundation (France), and En Plein Air (Côte d’Ivoire). He is co-founder of Playlisters by Adey and The Abele Art Foundation, platforms dedicated to grassroots sonic communities and cultural memory.

Together, Emalohi and Adey bring a transdisciplinary and transhistorical approach to sound as a site of memory, resistance, and renewal. Through textile-based assemblage, participatory sound rituals, and immersive installations, their collaborative work weaves archival depth with contemporary experimentation—centering African epistemologies and the sensory rituals that sustain them across time and space.