The subject matter in Ukpong's performance intervention deals with exploring and testing the role of objects and the body as mediated social agency as understood through the concepts of object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and African sensibility towards ritual objects. In testing the scope as an artist-researcher through a series of public interventions, Ukpong's mediated objects/bodies are forced to collide with the everyday urban or rural environments while contrasting different forms of power and authority.  These interventions are shaped by socio-ecological and exploitative economics and culture disrupted by the difficult-to-read presence of Ukpong's symbolic rituals that demand a visceral and emphatic response to the representations of the black ecologies through visual metaphors and fantasies.