Mendi and Keith Obadike are Igbo Nigerian Americans who work together to create music and art. Their 10-minute looping video—”Overcome”—is about the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the bridge that Martin Luther King Jr. marched across in Selma with other activists for civil rights, only to be met by violence on the other side. Their subtle and eloquent video brings the present and the past into conversation.

The Obadike lecture “Sound Structures” is on Monday April 3 from 7–8 p.m. at Performing Arts Hall and is
free and open to the public.

—Lenore Metrick-Chen, Department of Art