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     Talking to our Time: John Akomfrah

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     John Akomfrah: Future History

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

     9 Aug 2021

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     'The Stuart Hall Project' with John Akomfrah

     8 Apr 2014

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     John Akomfrah in Conversation

     16 May 2013

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     John Akomfrah – Why History Matters | TateShots

     2 Jul 2015

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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

     21 May 2019

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     John Akomfrah on Black Audio Film Collective

     31 May 2013

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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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   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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   London-based artist John Akomfrah has collaborated with LG OLED Art to present a five-screen film installation, on display at this year's Frieze London.Title...

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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”

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   Nov 10, 2021 · Akomfrah weaves together original footage with archival material to create stirring, layered narratives that juxtapose personal and historical memory, past and present, and environmental and human crises.

7. 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...

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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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   How does Akomfrah use sound?

   • In all his work since, Akomfrah has utilized overlapping audio tracks and a range of sounds, from musique concrète to opera, classical, and folk forms. The artist explains his interest in using noise to create conversations and suggest direction for images, as well as the role that sound plays in crafting narrative and conveying history.

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   Will Akomfrah represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale 2024?

   • Akomfrah was knighted last year, and 2024 brings yet another major milestone as he prepares to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the inaugural Ghana pavilion in Venice.

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   Who is Akomfrah's friend Stuart Hall?

   • An “immortal” presence is his friend, the late cultural theorist Stuart Hall about whom Akomfrah made the installation “The Unfinished Conversation” (2012) — on show in Frankfurt — and “The Stuart Hall Project” (2013), a film of archival footage set to a Miles Davis soundtrack.

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9. www.lissongallery.com › exhibitions › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: Five Murmurations | Exhibitions - Lisson Gallery

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   Sep 9, 2021 · Recent tragic incidences and victims of 2020, including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and 13-year-old Adam Toledo from Chicago, find their moments in Akomfrah’s portal, echoed through imagery of tragedies in art history, such as Andrea Mantegne's Lamentation of Christ (1480).