When you visit John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog, you’ll see history in a new way. 🎥 Here, the pioneering filmmaker and artist tells us what his immersive multichannel video installation is all about. “I want you to not simply revisit the past, but to revisit the past from the vantage point of the present.” —Sir John Akomfrah ⏰ Closing Sunday, February 1! Learn more and plan your visit at artb.ma/4qm62Lg. | Baltimore Museum of Art
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When you visit John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog, you’ll see history in a new way. 🎥 Here, the pioneering filmmaker and artist tells us what his immersive multichannel video installation is all about. “I want you to not simply revisit the past, but to revisit the past from the vantage point of the present.” —Sir John Akomfrah ⏰ Closing Sunday, February 1! Learn more and plan your visit at artb.ma/4qm62Lg. | Baltimore Museum of Art
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Sublime Seas: John Akomfrah and J.M.W. Turner
Sublime Seas: John Akomfrah and J.M.W. Turner
Dec 29, 2022
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John Akomfrah: Precarity - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
John Akomfrah: Precarity - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Feb 16, 2018
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John Akomfrah: Why history matters | Tate
John Akomfrah: Why history matters | Tate
Jan 20, 2023
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John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea - Arnolfini
John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea - Arnolfini
Jan 27, 2020
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John Akomfrah's new installation, Mimesis: African Soldier, remembers the millions of African and colonial soldiers, labourers and carriers who served in the First World War. http://ow.ly/yFFe30mwTK0 In this clip, he speaks about what remembrance means to him. #MakingANewWorld #Remembrance2018 | Imperial War Museum London
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John Akomfrah's new installation, Mimesis: African Soldier, remembers the millions of African and colonial soldiers, labourers and carriers who served in the First World War. http://ow.ly/yFFe30mwTK0 In this clip, he speaks about what remembrance means to him. #MakingANewWorld #Remembrance2018 | Imperial War Museum London
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Counter-Media, Migration, Poetry: Interview with John Akomfrah, Film Quarterly | DeepDyve
Counter-Media, Migration, Poetry: Interview with John Akomfrah, Film Quarterly | DeepDyve
Dec 16, 2014
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Through video installations that blend archival and original materials, John Akomfrah connects the global legacies of slavery and colonialism to environmental degradation and his personal biography. "There's no causality between the March on Washington and my poisoning as a teenager," says Akomfrah in our newly-released "London" episode. "But the connective tissue is me. I lived through this. I experienced this. So by implication, I am this weird product of these disparate elements." Watch → htt
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Known for his multichannel video installations, John Akomfrah shares a lesser acknowledged, but equally vital part of his work: sound. “I'm interested in just the conversation between noise,” says John Akomfrah in our newest “Extended Play” film. “The ways in which noise suggests direction for images.” While aware that early critics of his work found his use of sound and music "vulgar," Akomfrah retorts, "I like the vulgarity of it. That's the point. The new comes into being via the pathway of v
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John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea
Jul 27, 2022
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✨ RA, the British-Ghanaian artist whose groundbreaking work is captivating audiences from around the world at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024! Akomfrah, was recently knighted in the 2023 UK Honours list, and is known for his powerful art films and multi-screen video installations, which explore major issues such as racial injustice, colonial legacies, diasporic identities, migration, and climate change. 🌍🎥 In 2017, he won the Artes Mundi prize, the UK’s biggest award for international art. He
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Talking to our Time: John Akomfrah - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian
Aug 24, 2023
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John Akomfrah Poignantly Captures a World in Crisis | Artnet News
Nov 28, 2024
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John Akomfrah discusses his new immersive climate change video installation
Oct 7, 2017
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Conversations with Noise, John Akomfrah — Art21
Nov 10, 2021
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John Akomfrah : l’homme et la mer
Feb 12, 2021
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Celebrated artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah breaks down "Purple," now on view at the Watershed, discussing its relevance today, the complexity of its soundscape, and bringing the work to life in this reclaimed space --> bit.ly/akomfrah | The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
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Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment
Oct 24, 2023
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Biennale de Venise : une première pour le Ghanéen John Akomfrah | Africanews
Apr 18, 2024
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Filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts his artistic beginnings and contextualizes the greater forces that have shaped his life and work while visiting the Tate Britain. “When you're a kid, you're made by paintings because they teach you to be a human being,” says the artist in our “London” episode. “They didn't teach me to be a Black person, but they taught me to be a human being.” Watch → http://a21.tv/AkomfrahLondon | Art21
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John Akomfrah on Mimesis: African Soldier
Mar 31, 2019
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John Akomfrah’s "Becoming Wind" explores urgent questions of climate change and identity through powerful imagery. This multi-channel installation intertwines nature, humanity, and the need for adaptability, brought to life with the vivid clarity of LG OLED. Visit the LG OLED Lounge at Frieze London 2024 to experience this immersive reflection on our changing world. John Akomfrah, Becoming Wind, 2023 Five channel HD video, colour, black & white, 7.1 surround sound; 31 minutes 45 seconds © Smokin
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BBC Arts - BBC Arts - Moving images: Film maverick John Akomfrah's screen art
Mar 12, 2016
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John Akomfrah’s video art lures the senses while exploring ideas about Afrofuturism, migration, the environment
Mar 13, 2020
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John Akomfrah on Bob Dylan, Chris Ofili, J. M. W. Turner, and more | UNDER THE INFLUENCE
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Vertigo Sea (2015) ~ John Akomfrah #boston #bostonfineartsmuseum #artwork
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Listening All Night to the Rain exhibition – John Akomfrah | TBA21
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The Last Angel of History (1996) John Akomfrah
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John Akomfrah | Director, Writer, Camera and Electrical Department
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