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     'The Stuart Hall Project' with John Akomfrah

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     John Akomfrah: Future History

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     John Akomfrah discusses his new immersive climate change video installation

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2. www.youtube.com › watchArtist Salon: John Akomfrah - YouTube

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   Aug 7, 2019 · Ghana-born British artist John Akomfrah sits down with SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling to discuss the intersections of race, history, and the ev...

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   • Author: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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   A conversation with celebrated artist/film-maker John Akomfrah. The release of The Unfinished Conversation marks 30 years since John Akomfrah established his...

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   • Author: New Art Exchange

4. www.youtube.com › watchJohn Akomfrah on Remembrance - YouTube

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   Nov 9, 2018 · Artist John Akomfrah reflects on what Remembrance means to him.See his work Mimesis: African Soldier at IWM London https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/mimesis-afri...

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6. www.royalacademy.org.uk › name › john-akomfrah-raSir John Akomfrah | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

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   John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.

7. 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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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.

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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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   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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   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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   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.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   Why did John Akomfrah wear a ring?

   • LONDON — Shortly before the artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah left Ghana for Britain after a 1966 coup, the nine-year-old-boy had a final encounter with his grandfather, the High Priest of the Akomfrah clan. The venerated old man wore a ring that had passed down through generations, representing the power to bring order to life’s chaos.

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

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   Sep 1, 2021 · An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos. 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....