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     John Akomfrah in Conversation

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     at home: Artists in Conversation | John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison

     9 Aug 2021

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     John Akomfrah: Future History

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     'The Stuart Hall Project' with John Akomfrah

     8 Apr 2014

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     John Akomfrah – Why History Matters | TateShots

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     John Akomfrah' Purple at the Barbican

     17 Nov 2017

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     John Akomfrah: Purple | Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

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     John Akomfrah on Black Audio Film Collective

     31 May 2013

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     Jon Akomfrah - Four Nocturnes, 2019

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2. www.youtube.com › watchTalking to our Time: John Akomfrah - YouTube

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   This year, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn and National Museum of African Art will host major exhibitions of his work. Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works investigate ...

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3. 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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4. www.youtube.com › watchJohn Akomfrah in Conversation - YouTube

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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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5. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/01/04 › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial ...

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   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”

6. www.channel4.com › news › john-akomfrah-discussesJohn Akomfrah discusses his new immersive climate change ...

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   Oct 7, 2017 · Now he’s turned to one of mankind’s toughest challenges: climate change. It’s his biggest and most ambitious project yet – an immersive, six-channel video installation that stretches from ...

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7. 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.

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   What is Akomfrah doing now?

   • This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the inaugural Ghana pavilion in Venice. In the run-up to this year’s Biennale, Akomfrah has released a new work, Arcadia (2023), exhibited first at the Sharjah Biennial and now in an edited form at The Box in Plymouth, UK.

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Get your copy of The Year Ahead - your essential art world companion. The British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah has been pushing the boundaries of film for more than four decades.

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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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   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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   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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   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.ft.com › content › e35e6ba5-85f0-40ec-84c0-1dJohn Akomfrah on exploring colonialism, migration and ...

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   Nov 9, 2023 · The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight. His pan-Africanist father was an Nkrumah loyalist who “died in...