RESIDENCY | NEW YORK | 2024–2025
Temitope Olujobi
Illustration by Nathalie Fourdraine, additional art by Temitope Olujobi.
Temitope Olujobi is a Queer Nigerian-American Architect turned Game Designer making games in the creases of all types of odd and completely cracked combinations. What happens when you combine human shit with a windmill? Restorative Justice with a holodeck? Despotism and disco with the dreamy visual triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch? These are all questions Temi has attempted to answer with their video games in some uncanny ways. Their latest fusion, “Hands That Steal from Other Mouths,” is an arcade game that combines an anthropomorphic hand and mouth with empire and extraction; out now at Meow Wolf in Grapevine, Texas.
“What once started as an arcade video game about the unequal exchange between the global north and the global south, ‘Hands That Steal From Other Mouths’ (HTS) is a project that is continuously evolving and expanding mediums. While in residence, HTS will be once again transmuted, but this time into a live video game performance featuring a psych-electro-pop ‘concert’ and a community teach-in on present day Western imperialism in Africa.”