Organisation details
The name
behind the work.
Invisible Borders is the public and operating name of Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation. The project has also worked as Invisible Borders Trans-African Organisation and Invisible Borders Trans-African Project.
Invisible Borders is a Nigerian nonprofit arts organisation registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission as Incorporated Trustees.
Our mission
Encounter across
inherited divisions.
Our mission is to use artistic practice, travel, research, education and public exchange to create encounters across geographical, political, social and imaginative borders.
We seek to transcend the illusion of separation and humanize borders: bringing artists and publics into relation, supporting collective learning and enabling experiences and knowledge to travel beyond the places in which they began.
Programmes and activities
How the work
takes shape.
Invisible Borders is a multidisciplinary artistic, educational and research platform rooted in Africa and Trans-African in scope.
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Trans-African Road Trip
Our flagship project brings artists from different countries and disciplines together to travel across and within national borders, create work through lived encounter and exchange knowledge along the route.
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Exhibitions and artistic projects
We develop institutional exhibitions, multimedia installations, public-space interventions and grassroots presentations emerging from the journeys and wider collaborations.
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Education and exchange
Workshops, mentorships, masterclasses, conversations and collaborative programmes create reciprocal spaces for learning across disciplines and locations.
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Publishing
The Invisible Borders Journal develops selected and commissioned photography, essays, visual essays, podcasts, films and other forms of artistic and critical work.
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Research and archive
Research informs every part of the practice. The Moving Archive brings photographs, films, writings, documents and other traces of the project into renewed relation with the present.
Identity and registration
A public name.
A checkable record.
- Public and operating name
- Invisible Borders
- Founder and Artistic Director
- Emeka Okereke
- Legal name
- Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation
- Also known as
- Invisible Borders Trans-African Organisation; Invisible Borders Trans-African Project
- Registration
- CAC/IT/NO 46825 — Incorporated Trustees
- Registry and jurisdiction
- Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria, Nigeria
- Registered
- 26 August 2011
- Current registry status
- Active
- Official website and email domain
- invisible-borders.com
- Registered office
- c/o Foto Ojeikere, 2nd Floor, Left Wing, 33 Ajayi Aina Street, Ifako-Gbagada, Lagos 100241, Nigeria
Verify on the CAC public registerSearch the registered name above.
Fiscal sponsorship
Social Good Fund
Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation’s charitable activities are supported through the Invisible Borders Trans-African Initiative, fiscally sponsored by Social Good Fund, a U.S.-based nonprofit fiscal sponsor and California-registered 501(c)(3) public charity.
Through this fiscal sponsorship, Social Good Fund provides charitable oversight and administration for the initiative’s approved charitable purposes. Funds received by Social Good Fund for the project are held in a restricted project fund, subject to Social Good Fund’s discretion and oversight.
Invisible Borders remains an independently registered Nigerian organisation, as detailed above. The 501(c)(3) status belongs to Social Good Fund; fiscal sponsorship does not make Invisible Borders a U.S. 501(c)(3) organisation.