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2021.013 (Hirshhorn); 2020.04 (ICA Boston) Purple is a 62-minute immersive six-channel video installation created by the British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah in 2017. [1] It draws from hundreds of hours of archival footage and combines with newly shot film, spoken word, and original music to explore climate change and its effects on human ...
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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John Akomfrah RA is having a moment. Earlier this year he was knighted in recognition of his contribution to the arts, and soon after it was announced that he will represent Great Britain at...
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May 2, 2024 · In 2018, London-based British artist, film director, and writer John Akomfrah visited Artforum offices on the heels of three US solo shows—at the New Museum ...
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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".
Purple is a 62-minute immersive six-channel video installation created by the British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah in 2017. It draws from hundreds of hours of archival footage and combines with newly shot film, spoken word, and original music to explore climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.
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Apr 13, 2018 · Purple is an immersive six-channel video installation addressing man's relationship to nature and to the planet, created by the British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah.
