Meet the Artist
Ihotukowoicho
Obande
Creative Writing
“Animal Affairs is a novella depicting the relationship between sound and memory. In a broader sense, it takes the myths and legends of ghost stories and possessions and asks if human senses (touch, taste, sound, smell, and sight) can be trusted. There’s the common phrase, “we fear what we do not understand”, and this question can be applied to the queerness and the supernatural/occult. ”
My name is Ihotukowoicho Ivan Obande, I’m an International student from Nigeria who transferred from Laurier University in 2022 doing Digital Media and Journalism into the Creative Writing Program. I had the privilege of working with curator Roxanne Fernandez, and artists Camille Belair and Sal Lovink McKinnell on a multimedia installation using writing and textiles to explore iteration, repetition, and the grid. The exhibition is called Telling and Retelling: Acts of Iteration and was part of the 4th Annual OCAD U Gallery Crawl. I’ve had the opportunity to read for a City of Toronto Black History Month event at Montgomery Inn Museum and the Toronto International Festival of Authors in 2023-2024. My piece, Ogerthismus Vanhern Erde, was featured in The Visionary Magazine, a student owned publication. In my third year, my explorative piece on girlhood titled, How To Be A Girl, was included in Issue 1 of The Girlhood Project Magazine
