John Akomfrah: Sings of Empire
This catalog is the first monographic publication to survey the work of London-based artist John Akomfrah and accompanies his upcoming New Museum exhibition. 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
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UK, Video art, Installation, Interview, 20th‑century history, Cinema, Nature, Philosophy, Photography
Campt Tina (Article author), Carrion-Murayari Gary (Article author), Moshayedi Aram (Article author), Whitley Zoe (Article author), Enwezor Okwui (Article author), Nawi Diana (Article author), Demos T. J. (Article author), Phillips Lisa (Preface)
New York City
2018
128 pages
9780915557189
Available on request
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