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Jul 10, 2024 · Out of fear for their lives, Akomfrah’s mother took the family and emigrated. After a brief stint in the US, they wound up in London. “Diasporas are created as these violent eruptions of the conceptual,” he told the curator Ekow Eshun in 2016. “I’m only in the UK because my old man took a bullet.”.
Mar 20, 2012 · The director has returned to his country of birth on an almost annual basis for more than 21 years, spending a great deal of time at the family home in Accra. Akomfrah says much of his...
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957 [1]) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
Jan 4, 2024 · The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian exchange and tells us why his films owe a debt to cinema but are “rendered slightly strange ...
Jan 14, 2017 · John Akomfrah is a ground-breaking British artist and filmmaker of Ghanaian descent who brings to the fore questions of race and post-colonial identity in his installations and films. Presented to coincide with Black History Month in February 2017, his acclaimed film The Last Angel of History (1996) introduces audiences to the “data thief ...
Sep 1, 2021 · By Elizabeth Fullerton. Sept. 1, 2021. 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...
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Oct 7, 2024 · The British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale radiates with Sir John Akomfrah's monumental installation "Listening All Night to the Rain." Inspired by the poetic methods of Su Dongpo and the historical introspections of Ezra Pound, Akomfrah creates a landscape of song-like movements that invite contemplation and active listening as forms of ...
