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1. • 14 October 2023

     • From 14 October 2023 to January 2024, John Akomfrah 's 2021 three-channel film installation Five Murmurations is presentated at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Five Murmurations is accompanied by a soundscape that integrates haunting music with the calls of protestors, police recordings, and the final words of George Floyd. John Akomfrah is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker and founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective.

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   What is Akomfrah's 'Four Nocturnes'?

   • In 2019 Akomfrah presented Four Nocturnes (2019) in the Ghana Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, a three-channel piece reflecting on the intertwined relationship between humanity’s destruction of the natural world and our of ourselves.

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   What is Akomfrah doing in 2017?

   • In 2017, Akomfrah presented Purple (2017), which addresses climate change, human communities and wilderness; and Precarity (2017), following the life of forgotten New Orleans jazz trumpeter Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden.

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   What did Akomfrah do during World War One?

   • In 2018, Akomfrah participated in the UK wide World War One arts programme 14-18 Now, with his multiscreen installation Mimesis: African Soldier (2018), which commemorated African and colonial participants who fought, served and perished during The Great War.

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   What is Akomfrah's new film 'Vertigo Sea' about?

   • In 2015, Akomfrah premiered his three-screen film installation Vertigo Sea (2015), which explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls ‘the sublime seas’.

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   Who is Ashitey Akomfrah?

   • Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, who he still collaborates with today alongside Ashitey Akomfrah as Smoking Dogs Films.

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   Drawing upon an extensive archive of images that mix iconic works of art with scenes shot and gathered in the globally fraught 18-month period between 2019 and 2021, Five Mumurations considers Akomfrah’s insights into post-colonialism, diasporic experience, and memory.

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   Five Murmurations is London-based, Ghanaian-born artist John Akomfrah’s response to the global pandemic, murder of George Floyd, and worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter. It is a visual essay of our current times.

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   Drawing upon an extensive archive of images that mix iconic works of art with scenes shot and gathered in the globally fraught 18-month period between 2019 and 2021, Five Mumurations considers Akomfrah’s insights into post-colonialism, diasporic experience, and memory. Learn More.

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   Sep 9, 2021 · Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00am – 6:00pm. View map. Related news. Since March 2020, the London-based artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has been working on the longest continuous-running project of his career. Living throug...

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   Five Murmurations. Opening: Lisson NYC. September 2021. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound. 54 minutes. Director: John Akomfrah. Producers: Lina Gopaul, David Lawson and Ashitey Akomfrah. Since March 2020, Akomfrah has been working on the longest continuous-running project of his career.

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   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

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    ‘John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations’, National Museum of African Art (14 October 2023 - TBA) ‘John Akomfrah. A Space of Empathy’, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (9 November 2023 - 28 January 2024)