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

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   Oct 24, 2023 · Already this year Akomfrah has been knighted—and chosen to represent Great Britain in the 2024 Venice Biennale, where he’s been featured twice before. In 2023, his work is being featured in three...

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2. 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...

3. aperture.org › editorial › how-john-akomfrahs-videosHow John Akomfrah’s Videos Tell a Story of Migration and ...

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   Nov 6, 2023 · In 2019, Akomfrah was one of six artists invited to show at Ghana’s first-ever pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2024 he will represent Great Britain at the international event. Akomfrah’s practice and oeuvre is testament to the notion of hybridity: his project is to name the political ghosts and specters that haunt the present day ...

4. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk › culture › 67230Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah

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   Jul 10, 2024 · Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah. For 40 years, the artist has used film to wrestle with questions of identity and coexistence. Now, fresh from Venice, he looks back on it all. By David McAllister. July 10, 2024.

5. www.wallpaper.com › art › john-akomfrah-explores-theVenice Biennale 2024: John Akomfrah on exploring the sonic at ...

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   Apr 9, 2024 · Now, in new work for the Venice Biennale, commissioned and managed by the British Council, Akomfrah is dissecting a historical narrative through an auditory lens, putting sound at the centre of his new piece, Listening All Night To The Rain.

6. www.apollo-magazine.com › art-news-john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale ...

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   Jan 27, 2023 · The British Council has commissioned John Akomfrah for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024. The artist and film-maker, who was knighted in the 2023 UK honours list, came to prominence with Handsworth Songs (1986), a feature-length documentary on the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London, directed by Akomfrah and produced by the ...

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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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   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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   When does John Akomfrah 5 Murmurations open?

   • “John Akomfrah: Purple” continues at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. through January 7, 2024. “John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations” opened October 14 at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Its closing date hasn’t been determined.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   How long does Akomfrah's 'Handsworth Songs' take?

   • 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. Like the artist’s other works on display in Washington this year, it runs about an hour.

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8. rps.org › news › journalJohn Akomfrah: why there is hope amid the climate crisis

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   Is John Akomfrah an optimist? The artist and filmmaker, who has received the 2022 RPS Lumière Award, has spent the last 40 years confronting racism, political inequality and environmental catastrophe in his work.