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  1. Akomfrahs 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.

  2. Akomfrah uses montage techniques to connect apparently disconnected things, events, times and space into a kaleidoscopic image that mirrors Hall’s theorisation of the black diasporic subject.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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"

  6. Backed by the mellow sounds of Miles Davis, Akomfrah directs an intimate collage of archival footage, depicting Hall’s personal and public life, the political context, and the groundbreaking theoretical work on race, culture and the new left that emerged from them. But how has Hall’s political career pre-pared us for the challenges we face today?

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  8. John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.