BIO 

Edward Akintola Hubbard is an anthropologist, artist, curator and co-founder of the Amsterdam-based artist collective DARKMATTER. His artistic practice, experimental ethnography, sits at the intersection of contemporary art  and social anthropology. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Harvard University in the USA and has taught courses at the University of the West Indies, Harvard University, New York University and Utrecht University on a variety of subjects including experimental ethnography, anthropology,  art theory, cinema, media studies, gender studies, urban studies and African diaspora studies. 

His artistic practice involves ethnographic research, photography, video, installation and writing. Meanwhile, his approach to curation merges anthropology, cultural theory, media, fine art, music, film and literature. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

​​My life has been a series of bizarre experiments, witnessings and transplantations. The oddity that I have become as a result and the unique relationships I have formed with people, places and non-places are the basis for all of my artistic work.

My practice of experimental ethnography straddles the disciplines of anthropology and art, allowing me to condense many things into one: visuals, prose poetry, storytelling, research, interviewing, cultural analysis, adventure, performance, politics and pedagogy. It affords me a richness of vision that is equally concerned with humanity and its spheres of influence, with the natural and built environments, with the lives of ghosts and spirits, and with both animate and inanimate objects.

With this transdisciplinary, trans-medial and transnational approach, I seek to spotlight and to aestheticise the practices and particularities of everyday life – whether minute, mundane or marvellous – in ways that deepen our empathetic relations and our collective understanding of cultures, forms and experiences in every corner of the contemporary world.