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- “Vertigo Sea” announced a shift in focus, the artist said. Instead of privileging humans in the narrative, Akomfrah assigned equal, or even greater, importance to the sea and the whales. Years of thinking about what race means had led him to challenge other artificial distinctions, he said, like those between humans and animals.
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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.
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...
Nov 9, 2023 · 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 ...
- Maya Jaggi
Sep 1, 2021 · Years of thinking about what race means had led him to challenge other artificial distinctions, he said, like those between humans and animals.
Akomfrah’s images are ‘unruly’ in ways that challenge their authoritative status as evidentiary traces of a period of migration – a status that has been conferred upon them, in part, by their archival preservation.
Jan 4, 2024 · The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian exchange and tells us why his films owe a debt to cinema but are “rendered slightly strange”
Oct 30, 2020 · In a historical context, the intertextual fragment embodies another manifestation of the aesthetics of decay, of the ruin as an object of philosophical contemplation. In focus here is the work of the British filmmaker artist and collagist John Akomfrah.
