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Akomfrah’s works can be seen to articulate the contemporary condition in sensuous ways, making contemporaneity — or contemporaneities — something that can be directly experienced. In the conversation we begin by talking about the methodology of his video works and how montage deals with temporality.
Akomfrah opens Five Murmurations with details of The Conjuror, Hieronymus Bosch’s examination of the human capacity for deception. It is the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna’s canvas The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, however, that speaks to the pathos and banality of lives lost. For Akomfrah, the distorted perspective of
During the Old Testament, the Jewish church was ‘com-mitted the oracles of God’ (Romans 3.2). Under the New Testament, this stewardship was transferred to the Christian church which is called the ‘pillar and ground’ of God’s inspired truth (1 Timothy 3.15).
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The intellectual landscape of the previous century was engaged in a radical tendency, exhibited by several key figures such as Foucault, Derrida and Hall, to deconstruct traditional beliefs about personal and cultural identity.
WHERE DID THE BIBLE COME FROM? The Bible didn’t fall out of heaven all at once. Instead, the Bible is a product of thousands of years of oral traditions, written documents, and meticulous curation, arranging, and editing. The Bible we have today came together piece by piece, slowly accumulating more material as the Jewish and Christian faiths ...
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Read all of Judges chapters 4 and 5 to understand the story of Deborah. • Deborah was the fourth judge of Israel AND the only female judge of Israel. That is why her story can be found in the Old Testament book of Judges. • God chose Deborah to lead Israel.
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Sep 1, 2021 · 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 his grandfather, the High...
