Akomfrah’s skill as a film-maker and visual storyteller shines through in this compelling show
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 6 July – 27 October 2019
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The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the importance of the Black Audio Film Collective, of which he was a founding mem...
... 1980s by Black British activists, artists and intellectuals such as Yinka Shonibare, John Akomfrah and Stuart Hall, he realised that there was a voice missing – that of ...
... UK. Many past winners are now global players, including Theaster Gates, Ragnar Kjartansson, John Akomfrah and Anna Boghiguian. Otobong Nkanga, shortlisted in 2019, was one...
... mandated: John Akomfrah, La Vaughn Belle, Mark Thomas Gibson, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Demetrius Oliver, Dread Scott, Renée Stout, Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis. At...
For this new installation, commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Steve McQueen merges his family’s history with footage from the first ‘talkie’ in Holl...
... smartify.org/tours/summer-exhibition-2021.
A small, dedicated gallery space shows Peripeteia (2012), an utterly enthralling video work by John Akomfrah RA. The film take...
Studio International spoke with Forrester at the opening of Itchin & Scratchin, his first major solo institutional show, at Nottingham Contemporary
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... John Akomfrah, El Anatsui and a pavilion designed by David Adjaye – at the Venice Biennale this year, as well as in a slew of other highly visible venues) seems to be on...
... from industrial exploitation to surveillance to entrenched racism. The previous two winners were film-maker John Akomfrah (2016) and Chicago-based artist and activist Thea...
... Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017) in the Hessisches Landesmuseum by Naeem Mohaiemen, who was born in London but grew up in Bangladesh. Mohaiemen’s video is a John Akomfr...
... Himid wrote in the 80s. And many of the artists assembled here did indeed go on to make themselves visible, from 2017’s Artes Mundi prize winner, filmmaker John Akomfrah...
... (2012-13). John Akomfrah’s film Vertigo Sea (2015), played on three screens simultaneously, tells us about the crimes of the whale industry and the ruthless exploitation...
... made some difference. You would think that this would have changed, but it doesn’t seem to have, it’s kind of a shock.
CM: Maybe by works like yours and these other ...
... the highlight is John Akomfrah's video The Unfinished Conversation (2012) about the academic Stuart Hall. Born in Jamaica when the country was still a British Colony, Hall...
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