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1. art.newcity.com › 2024/10/09 › sublime-hauntology-aReview: "John Akomfrah: Four Nocturnes" at Wrightwood 659

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   Oct 9, 2024 · Conceived as the third piece for a trilogy, after “Vertigo Sea” (2015) and “Purple” (2017), “Four Nocturnes” is a continuation of Akomfrah’s wrought investigation into the colonial history and migratory journeys on the continent of Africa, against the backdrop of a worsening climate and hardened racial injustice over the world.

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2. www.frieze.com › disenchanting-world-john-akomfrahThe Disenchanting World of John Akomfrah | Frieze

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   John Akomfrah is no stranger to the Venice Biennale, but this year’s appearance – his third in just under a decade – feels different, he tells me: weightier, with more pressure and expectation. Now tasked with representing the UK, he admits that it ‘feels more urgent and demanding’.

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3. www.artnews.com › feature › john-akomfrah-best-filmsJohn Akomfrah’s Best Films, Ranked: Strange Futures, Black ...

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   Jun 16, 2020 · John Akomfrah ’s films are dizzying, strange, and absolutely essential artworks that explore histories of displacement, people living in oppressive states, landscapes on the verge of...

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4. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/04/16 › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: ‘What are the histories, the questions, the ...

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   Apr 16, 2024 · John Akomfrah is known for his dramatic, richly layered multiscreen video installations that use archive material and newly shot footage to challenge the conventions of film-making, and explore...

5. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionArtist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | Smithsonian

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   Oct 24, 2023 · Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John Akomfrah both familiar and ...

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6. artreview.com › artist › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah - ArtReview

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   John Akomfrah. Artist - Black Audio Film Collective cofounder representing the UK in the next Venice Biennale. 33 in 2023

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Photography by Jack Hems. Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John Akomfrah both familiar and especially compelling. And the Ghanaian-born, London-based filmmaker is getting noticed for it.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   Where did Akomfrah come from?

   • This layered approach defined Akomfrah’s earliest works, made with the Black Audio Film Collective, an artists’ atelier he formed in the early 1980s with six friends while at college in Portsmouth, England.

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   What did Akomfrah do?

   • Lina Gopaul, Akomfrah’s long-term collaborator and partner, who was with the collective from the start, said the group “wanted to explore these questions of identity, how race is formed and who fixes it.” As well as making films, the group organized screenings, distributed other artists’ work and put on symposiums.

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   Is it a coincidence that Akomfrah was asked to do something?

   • “Nor is it a coincidence that when I was asked to do something I was like, ‘Yes!’” It was in 1982 that Akomfrah, who had moved to the United Kingdom with his family as a child, co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective. One of the collective’s significant early works was the single-channel piece Handsworth Songs, which Akomfrah directed.

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   Are Akomfrah's films a source of comfort and security?

   • Tina Campt, a professor of media and modern culture at Brown University who studies the African diaspora in Europe, said in a phone interview that Akomfrah’s films challenge an “official narrative” about Britain’s empire as a source of comfort and security.

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   How many Murmurations does John Akomfrah want?

   • John Akomfrah said he wants his new work “five murmurations” to engage viewers in a conversation that is “animated for sure, occasionally convivial, occasionally heated.” Adama Jalloh for The New York Times

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8. www.nytimes.com › arts › designAn Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos - The New York Times

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   Sep 1, 2021 · John Akomfrah’s films have shaken up official narratives around Black identity and imperialism. His latest tries to make sense of life in the pandemic.