Maryam Kazeem is a writer, researcher and founder of iranti press, a publishing experiment based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her creative work makes connections between archival research and the multidimensional nature of language. Through iranti press, her work explores publishing as an act of spatialization and social practice. She has received grants and awards from the Prince Claus Fund, Goethe Institut, and Processing Foundation, amongst others, and is currently at work on her first novel.
“Using the generative capacity of protest as a “glitch”, which can create an opening, The Future Protest invites a wider public to contemplate the Lagos Lagoon’s sonic histories. The project explores the Lagoon’s ecology through a phonocenic lens and asks how the water hears and what the effects of this hearing are. Through an interactive live feed of a boat stationed on the lagoon, viewers are invited to record a protest they would like to hold in the future, and watch their voices generate energy which activates a trash collection wheel on the water. ”