Search Results for Black Audio Film Collective

... a Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson, and new audience and a new generation to the work of the Trevor Mathison remains terra infirma. There are good reasons Black Audio Film Collective. An artworld audience internal and external...

... survival in the twenty-first century. In particular, I contend that recent films by John Akomfrah (b. 1957) Vertigo Sea (2015), The Airport (2016), and Purple (2017) exemplify this tendency. These several films elaborate and amplify Akomfrah s early work with the Black Audio Film Collective (1982 98...

... of the Geiger counter so you’re hearing different workshops that were figuring out racial politics in this very loud birdsong, which we purposely raised in the mix relation to gender, such as Sankofa or the Black Audio Film in order to heighten the near invisibility of the effect of the Collective in 1980s...

... degradation a range of difficult topics that did not seem to detour the significant number of visi- tors who saw this popular exhibition. Born in Accra, Ghana, and based in London, Akomfrah is best known as the director of Smoking Dog Films and cofounder of the Black Audio Film Collective, founded in 1982...

... meaningful independent cinema by W.E.B Dubois in his 1904 treatise from Britain in the 1990s, from on African/European relations in Black Audio Film Collective's America, The Souls of Black Folk. Handsworth Songs, Sankofa's Images...

..., economic or political rience of travelers required to stop at military checkpoints dis• inequalities. The subjects of these works range from urban tributed throughout the occupied territories. The film relates to unrest in England (Black Audio Film Collective, Hansworth...

... archives includes co-found- 1920s (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000). ing the Black Audio Film Collective, invited us to 8 Awarded by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the annual national David C. Driskell Prize honors and celebrates...

... 16 For references to the 1985 riots and their causes, see Hands- Dabydeen, John Gilmore, and Cecily Jones (Oxford University worth Songs, a film made by the Black Audio Film Collective, Lon- Press, 2007), 341–342. See also John La Rose, The New Cross Mas- don, directed by John Akomfrah, 1986...

..., David the speaking position of the producer of ideas is to me a political Goldblatt, Andreas Seikman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Atlas Group, Lisl action. I really do not regret a single thing that we did. Ponger, Kendell Geers, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Black Audio Film Collective or Trinh T. Minh-ha...

... the poral artists, integral to a movement of Sankofa, Black Audio Film Collective) in• tory not as a grand narrative of progress, artist calls "hair-things." It engages...

... that would I love flash mobs. I think they are wonderful. I go be filmed and audio recorded. The process went on YouTube and watch them. They make me smile. like this: (a) AACM musicians and other Chicago They make me feel warm and fuzzy. The moment I musicians who have a deep...

...Amy Ongiri In Death 24x a Second Laura Mulvey argues that cinematic images belie the deathlike qualities of still photography because of their ability to invoke the appearance of life through motion. This essay examines film and video projects that use found footage and still images from the Black...

... to be a coon, a gangster, a ers, bursting with black hair and images on ings in hot water, inevitably causing damage paper of hairdressing tools can be opened, to the film, which was then adhered to convict, an ignorant IMP3 voter...

... to December confluence of Black Power and Afro- proach, at once dialectic and open- 8, 2013. centrism during the seventies in ur- ended, resists the logic of collection 6 Benjamin articulated his method in ban America. A short film by Thomas and display or cursory celebration. At the essay “Theses...

... in the Swiss Pavilion. For Feeling Her Way, Boyce invited five women singers, who were strangers to each other and to her, to be filmed and recorded improvising on their own and then together (as in jazz) for the videos in her biennale installation. She framed the situation by asking how they, as Black British...

... that also included black-and-white photographs and a complete library of Enwezor s collected works. The library itself consisted of one hundred books that Enwezor wrote or edited, curated into a floating bookshelf with a level of precision worthy of a bibliophile. I was completely mesmerized by Weems s...

... examines the overlapping themes of Euro-American modernism and African art, collecting and colonialism, and homosexuality and race during the early twentieth century, when Locke was a leading theorist of Black aesthetics and a principal figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Installed in Sharjah City around...

... global audience a black woman signif - jected on the wall, room after room of works on resonates with some of Walker’s tableau titles. Such Senate in Tennessee , by featuring a white woman icantly darker than Berry in skin tone and more paper, and film. Her works on paper singly...

..., art objects, film, video, audio and Active texts, and playfully altered labels. His works are ridden with allegories, biting humor, critical...

... it—black, white, colored, their own as well those in the larger cultural land• scape—is a given aspect of the art process, not necessarily some...