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John Akomfrah
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ISBN: 9780947830519 0947830510 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Lisson Gallery

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John Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982. His work is characterised by a rich, multi-layered visual style that is as poetic as it is political and which frequently fuses contemporary issues with history, fiction and mythology. Collaging archival film footage, still photography and newsreel with new material, he investigates personal and collective memories, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics in works that explore the experience of the African diaspora in Europe and the US. This publication focuses on three recent film installations by the artist: The first, 'The Airport' (2016), is a three screen film installation which recalls the work of two filmmaking greats: Stanley Kubrick and Theo Angelopolous. The film?s narrative, complete with sweeping shots of the landscapes of Athens and Southern Greece, contemplates the significance of empire, and the ghosts which linger in our collective consciousness. The other two films are 'Auto Da Fé' (2016) and 'Tropikos' (2016).00Exhibition: Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom (22.01.-12.03.2016).


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Co-existence of times : a conversation with John Akomfrah
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ISBN: 9783956795718 3956795717 9783956795725 3956795725 Year: 2020 Volume: 14 Publisher: Berlin Sternberg Press

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In Exhibition-ism, theorist and artist Mieke Bal develops the idea that exhibiting is a significant form of the contemporary. In an exhibition, visitors are in the actual company of artworks that can perform. This essay considers recent shows of Bal's own video work, and is framed by observations on contemporary sculpture's response to classics of the form. Looking at art as process, Bal makes the case that the being-together-in-time of an exhibition visit encourages and, if the curation is well thought-out, can heighten the sense of the contemporaneity art being more capable of this than anything else.


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John Akomfrah
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ISBN: 9781839023224 1839023228 9781839023217 183902321X Year: 2023 Publisher: London New York BFI Publishing

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The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them. James Harvey's John Akomfrah is the first comprehensive analytic engagement with these films, offering sustained close engagement with the artist's core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah's rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017). Positioning Akomfrah in the burgeoning black British arts and cultural scene of the 1980s as a member of Black Audio Film Collective, Harvey traces the evolution of a critical relationship with the postcolonial archive in his early films, through analysis of documentaries made for television in the 1990s and up to more recent film installations in museums and galleries.


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John Akomfrah : signs of empire
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ISBN: 9780915557189 0915557185 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. New Museum

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Since the early 1980s, Akomfrah's moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the culture of the black diaspora. Zoe Whitley and Aram Moshayedi survey Akomfrah's early work as part of Black Audio Film Collective. Tina Campt explores the sonic resonances of Akomfrah's installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), which focuses on the life of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Diana Nawi examines the recent work Transfigured Night (2013/2018), considering how Akomfrah continues to find new languages for film, representation and narrative. T.J. Demos and Okwui Enwezor look at Vertigo Sea (2015), Akomfrah's monumental work exploring the concept of the black Atlantic, using the work to articulate the visual and philosophical underpinnings of Akomfrah's work across his career. Exhibition: New Museum, New York, USA (20.06.-02.09.2018).


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History is now : 7 artists take on Britain
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ISBN: 9781853323270 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Hayward publishing

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La Biennale di Venezia : een gebruiksaanwijzing
Year: 2019 Publisher: Antwerpen H Art Magazine

The art of record: a critical introduction to documentary
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ISBN: 0719046874 9780719046872 Year: 1996 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press


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New Nonfiction Film. Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory.
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ISBN: 9781501322495 1501322494 9781501362163 9781501322501 9781501322525 1501322524 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic,


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Resist! : the 1960s protests, photography and visual legacy : exhibition, Brussels, BOZAR, 27 June - 26 August 2018
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ISBN: 9789401455855 9401455856 Year: 2018 Publisher: Brussels Tielt BOZAR Lannoo

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AES+F ; Akomfrah, John ; Barbey, bruno ; Berry, Ian ; Biemann, Ursula ; Tavares, Paulo ; Brodsky, Marcelo ; Burri, René ; Caron, Gilles ; Depardon, Raymond ; Douglas, stan ; Fatmi, Mounir ; Freed, Leonard ; Gaumy, Jean ; Glinn, Burt ; Hamaya, Hiroshi ; Jantjes, Gavin ; Loskutov, Artem ; Mendel, Gideon ; Ressler, Olivier ; Sacco, Graciela ; Sansour, Larissa ; Schapiro, Steve ; Schulze Eldowy, Gundula ; Serralongue, Bruno ; Storck, Henri ; Mellaerts , Hugo ; Tillmans, Wolfgang ; Williamson, Sue ; Willis, Thomas ; Hank ; Xu, Yong

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