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1. whitewall.art › art › cantos-of-time-sir-johnSir John Akomfrah at the Venice Biennale | Whitewall

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   Oct 7, 2024 · As you approach the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, you are immediately enveloped by the atmospheric brilliance of Sir John Akomfrah ‘s monumental installation, “Listening All Night to the Rain.”

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   Jul 10, 2024 · It was almost entirely empty when I entered, save for a long white table in the central space where the artist John Akomfrah—in a black mandarin collar shirt, an olive scarf draped, louche, over one shoulder—had been holding court for the day, one journalist at a time.

3. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/04/16 › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: ‘What are the histories, the questions, the ...

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   Apr 16, 2024 · John Akomfrah is known for his dramatic, richly layered multiscreen video installations that use archive material and newly shot footage to challenge the conventions of film-making, and explore...

4. tique.art › features › john-akomfrahArtist Feature: John Akomfrah * Tique | publication on ...

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   John Akomfrah. Born the son of Ghanaian political activists, artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah unapologetically tackles thorny debates around post-colonialism, diasporic memory and black identity in his praised and prized video works.

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5. www.sfmoma.org › read › interview-john-akomfrahAn Interview with John Akomfrah · SFMOMA

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   After the installation of Sublime Seas: John Akomfrah and J.M.W. Turner, I sat down with the indefatigable London-based artist for a wide-ranging conversation about the importance art history in his work, how a near death experience as child has allowed him to connect to strangers, and why San Francisco is the ideal place to show Vertigo Sea.

6. www.nytimes.com › arts › designAn Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos - The New York Times

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   Sep 1, 2021 · Conveying this sense of overlap, snippets of text like “Am I safe?,” “Fear” and “Dying helplessly” float in and out of focus throughout the film, obliquely linking shots of cozy domestic interiors...

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   Why did John Akomfrah wear a ring?

   • 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 Priest of the Akomfrah clan. The venerated old man wore a ring that had passed down through generations, representing the power to bring order to life’s chaos.

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   What did Akomfrah do?

   • Lina Gopaul, Akomfrah’s long-term collaborator and partner, who was with the collective from the start, said the group “wanted to explore these questions of identity, how race is formed and who fixes it.” As well as making films, the group organized screenings, distributed other artists’ work and put on symposiums.

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   Where did Akomfrah come from?

   • This layered approach defined Akomfrah’s earliest works, made with the Black Audio Film Collective, an artists’ atelier he formed in the early 1980s with six friends while at college in Portsmouth, England.

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   Why did Akomfrah challenge other artificial distinctions?

   • Years of thinking about what race means had led him to challenge other artificial distinctions, he said, like those between humans and animals. “Not that long ago if you were an enslaved African, or a serf in rural Russia, you were definitely not human for most of the people in power,” Akomfrah explained.

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   How many Murmurations does John Akomfrah want?

   • John Akomfrah said he wants his new work “five murmurations” to engage viewers in a conversation that is “animated for sure, occasionally convivial, occasionally heated.” Adama Jalloh for The New York Times

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   What is Akomfrah's contribution to the Venice Biennale?

   • Smoking Dogs Films and Palais de Tokyo; Marc Domage “Vertigo Sea” and “Purple” form a trilogy with “Four Nocturnes,” which was Akomfrah’s contribution to Ghana’s inaugural pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale: All three ruminate on time, memory, progress and, above all, humanity’s barbarity.

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8. mackenzie.art › exhibition › john-akomfrah-the-lastJohn Akomfrah: The Last Angel of History - MacKenzie Art Gallery

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   Jan 14, 2017 · John Akomfrah is a ground-breaking British artist and filmmaker of Ghanaian descent who brings to the fore questions of race and post-colonial identity in his installations and films. Presented to coincide with Black History Month in February 2017, his acclaimed film The Last Angel of History (1996) introduces audiences to the “data thief ...