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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.
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.
John Akomfrah. British, born 1957 Loan courtesy of Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery, London. The Last Angel of History follows the quest of a man known as the Data Thief, who seeks the keys to the future. He turns to his computer as a new source of access to knowledge in the 1990s.
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".
Akomfrah received a degree in sociology from Portsmouth Polytechnic in Portsmouth, England, before cofounding the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982. This group developed a groundbreaking experimental style that centered Black identity and experiences within portrayals of British society and history.
Nov 6, 2023 · For more than four decades, John Akomfrah has sought to tell myriad tales of migration and belonging. Akomfrah left Ghana for the UK as a young child after the country’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in the 1966 coup, which put his activist mother’s life in danger.
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A review of the 2016 exhibition "John Akomfrah," held at Lisson Gallery in New York City. . × ... Download Free PDF. Download Free PDF "John Akomfrah" "John Akomfrah"
