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- Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist, and public intellectual who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951 until his passing in 2014. He is well known as a founder of Cultural Studies and an influential thinker of the British New Left.
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When British artist John Akomfrah wanted to create a project exploring the transmutation and transformation of the black image over time, he deemed Stuart Hall to be the perfect vehicle to examine these ideas.
Dec 13, 2023 · John Akomfrah’s video work “The Unfinished Conversation” is an homage to cultural theorist and sociologist Stuart Hall. Award-winning Frankfurt filmmaker Oliver Hardt has been familiar with the work for many years and reveals what significance Stuart Hall has for John Akomfrah and the Black Diaspora. John Akomfrah’s film “The ...
In July 2000, Stuart Hall delivered a keynote lecture entitled ‘Diasporas, or the logics of cultural translation’ (or ‘Diásporas, ou a lógica da tradução cultural’) at a comparative literature conference in Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia (Hall, 2016). Beginning his lecture with an apology for ‘speaking in a foreign language’ and […]
Nov 9, 2023 · 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 ...
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Sep 25, 2024 · During the opening conversation of this series, Bill Schwarz claims that ‘Stuart hated finishing things’ (SHF 2024), evoking the title of the acclaimed art installation celebrating Hall’s life and work ‘The Unfinished Conversation’, created by another of his long-standing collaborators John Akomfrah (2012).
Feb 10, 2014 · Professor Stuart Hall, the eminent cultural theorist and activist, has died at the age of 82. Stuart was a pioneer of film and cultural studies and he and his work have remained influential for over half a century.
Dec 11, 2013 · 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.
