Daniel Oduntan - Assembly 2026

Daniel Oduntan: Working Memory

Drawing from the world of television and film library music as well as song composition and improvisational methods, the performance treats sound and image as tools for cataloguing memory in motion. Rather than presenting a single narrative, Working Memory operates as a live happening, where fragments are gathered, tested, and recomposed in real time. Improvisation becomes a method for preservation, allowing new timelines to emerge.

Across two distinct movements, alongside the Audio Visual Ensemble, Oduntan moves between personal recollection, collective experience, and unfinished archives. The work asks how memory deteriorates, lapses and how we participate in that erosion through daily media consumption, as well as how live performance might offer a way to supplement this process, cultivating spaces for new audio-visual languages.

Daniel Oduntan is supported by the Assembly Residency opportunity, a 12-month programme for emerging artists shaped by Somerset House Studios in collaboration with artist mentors Beatrice Dillon and Elaine Mitchener.