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1. www.archivebooks.org › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah - Archive Books

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   A co-founder of the influential London-based Black Audio Film Collective (established in 1982), Akomfrah’s work interweaves newly shot film sequences with archival material to create multilayered, at times associative collages, frequently in the form of simultaneous narrative structures.

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   John Akomfrah's 'The Unfinished Conversation' (2012) constitutes a recent, fascinating negotiation of identity and difference. The film takes the life of culture theorist Stuart Hall as a point of departure, conducting a cinematic translation of Hall's own empirical and theoretical journey through identity and difference.

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   Nov 9, 2023 · John Akomfrah on exploring colonialism, migration and globalism through ‘bricolage’. The British filmmaker and artist examines the complexities of his African roots through a personal...

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4. www.pamm.org › 04 › akomfrah_english_bifold_v2John Akomfrah - pamm.org

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   John Akomfrah works primarily in film and video, exploring place, memory, and history through the lens of postcolonialism and the black diaspora. His work takes many formats, ranging from feature-length documentaries to immersive, multichannel video installations, while employing both original and archival footage.

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   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".

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   New Museum, 2018 - Art - 125 pages. This catalog is the first monographic publication to survey the work of London-based artist John Akomfrah (born 1957) and accompanies his upcoming New Museum...

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   Who is Akomfrah and what kind of work does he do?

   • John Akomfrah is a Ghanaian-born artist known for his art films and multiscreen video installations. He is recognized for exploring issues such as racial injustice, diasporic identities, migration, and climate breakdown. Next year, his work will fill the British pavilion at Venice from April until November.

   John Akomfrah to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • 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 the upheaval”, he says. “My whole life changed — the innocence went.”

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   Where are Akomfrah's works found?

   • [ 13 ] Akomfrah's works are included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide such as the Smithsonian 's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [ 14 ] the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among many others.

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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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   Why did Akomfrah win the Artes Mundi prize?

   • In 2017, Akomfrah won the biennial Artes Mundi Prize, the UK's biggest award for international art, [ 39 ] having been chosen for the award for his "substantial body of outstanding work dealing with issues of migration, racism and religious persecution", including his work Auto Da Fé. [ 24 ]

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   John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explore the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.