Biography
Femi Johnson is a researcher who pursues the aims of art with the methods of science. He works with archives and film on African cultural heritage and on questions of memory, identity and restitution.
He contributed to the digitisation of the Benin Bronze plaque corpus at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), alongside the Benin Initiative Schweiz and partner museums in Nigeria, the UK and Germany. At the HFBK Hamburg he was Artist in Residence and guest lecturer in Time-Based Media, teaching seminars and exhibiting with his students. He has also conducted research at the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel, on Swiss and West African entanglements in the 1930s and 1980s, and has given talks and workshops at Ars Electronica, the mesh festival Basel and MARKK Hamburg. He continues to direct and produce film.
At HSLU he supports the Digital Ideation programme in Rotkreuz and Emmenbrücke as part of the Mittelbau team, as Wissenschaftlicher Assistent.
