nii.a.k [knee-ah-keh] a.k.a Allen Kwabena Frimpong is a conceptual artist and cooperative entrepreneur who engages cultural design through assemblage. nii.a.k body of work serves as a reprisal of the infamous folklore tales of Ananse the Spider from the Akan-Asante people in West Africa, the Caribbean and in North America. nii.a.k's work serves as a ritual rooted in several West African cosmologies including of his lineages of the Akan and Ga from the area known as Ghana in West Africa. Ananse invites the energy of the tricksters who are cunning, savvy, adaptive and spiritual beings. Therefore, nii.a.k focuses on constellations of the universe as a web of connections that weave stories of liberation from the spiritual bankruptcy of colonialism and capitalism to inspire us to create an abundant life otherwise. From inception, nii.a.k draws from the wisdom of West African divination practices and his interest and training as an urban planner to enable him to create spaces of communal sufficiency and resourcefulness from his 15 years working in philanthropy. He reclaims the abjection of marginalized spaces into sites of spiritual enshrinement.His work ties together emotional, cultural, social, political and economic practices via the use of various materials. Instruments including vocals, invocation of the oral and written word, water, spirits through libation in the kpele tradition of the Ga people, mirrors, glass, acrylic, calabash, wood, iron, brass, copper, silver, gold, and rubber to name a few. The ideation from nii.a.k and his collaborators whether in spiritual or physical form utilizes improvisation in the process of the creation of his works that is shared as conceptual art.