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...Ian Bourland This article considers recent films by the artist John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Ghana). It argues that Vertigo Sea , The Airport , and Purple exemplify a new phase of black British art production. While building on the methods and themes that characterize his time with the Black Audio Film...

...Brett M. Van Hoesen RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 2020180 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308294 © 2020 by Nka Publications SUBLIME SEAS: JOHN AKOMFRAH AND J. M. W. TURNER SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA MARCH 3 SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 Each...

...Grant Farred “When I was nineteen, Miles Davis put his finger on my soul, and it never went away,” Stuart Hall reflects in John Akomfrah’s documentary, The Stuart Hall Project . Miles Davis not only “touched” Hall’s soul, but the music and its many moods, its vagaries, its experimentations provided...

... of media studies at Pitzer College. The show, which ran from September 19 to December 5, 2013, included the work of nine international artists from Africa, Europe, and the United States, including John Akomfrah, Cheryl Dunye, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Lyle Ashton Harris, Zanele Muholi, Mwangi Hutter, Andrew...

... projects attention to the works of, say for example, Marcia Kure, or programs that emerged at the twilight of colonialism Radcliffe Bailey, John Akomfrah, Kira Kemper, Nomusa in some parts of Africa or in the early postcolonial period. Makhubu, and Samson Kambalu...

...Kodwo Eshun Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 t is no exaggeration to say that the installation of In its totality, the work of John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Handsworth Songs (1985) at Documentall introduced...

... comes up with a Questionable idea,you cinema. What then, is your assessment of the place of the more experi• have to be able to get through their idea to dismantle it, and the only way mental of these film makers: John Akomfrah, Ngozi Onwurah, lean Pierre to do that is to have some...

....21 The show also exists an” and the violence directed at differ- with work by John Akomfrah and Rashaad in relation to Boswell’s major multime- ences constituted by gender identity, Newsome at Carroll/Fletcher, London, in dia installation Mutumia (2016), which sexual preference, racism...

...), as well as work done in the the works for a lost sense of belonging to a natal diaspora related to questions of identity and racism country that political strife forced them to abandon, in Europe (John Akomfrah), the festival afforded only so that they would eventually encounter home...

.... An equally foreboding visual narrative is con- In a powerful foreshadowing of the tragedy that veyed in John Akomfrah’s three-screen film instal- will follow, Ashes falls out of the boat at one point, lation Vertigo Sea: Oblique Tales of the Aquatic leaving us in suspense until he pops up again...

..., generosity of spirit, undying curiosity, and in the 1970s. sheer joie de vivre rarely found in an octogenarian of his genera- “‘Race’ disables us,” philosopher Kwame Anthony tion. I am indebted to John Akomfrah for many invaluable insights Appiah wrote provocatively...

..., as a knight of the realm, to be referred to and addressed as Sir David. Added to the above are the not insignificant number of names of other black British artists, pho- tographers, filmmakers, and arts workers, upon whom honors have been similarly conferred. This ever-growing list includes John Akomfrah...

... 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...

... turing, and splintering, the world. Mutu probes Clinton, Lee Perry, Tim Maia, Billy Preston, Grace Jones, Afrika Bambaataa, Erykah Badu, and Janelle Monáe; visual artists Pedro deep inside “us” to investigate humanity’s collec- Bell, Rammellzee, John...

... of nonmembers, in- cluding John Akomfrah and Lubaina Himid. Keith Piper makes reference to the minutes of these meetings in Coming Up in the Black Moment: A Personal Reflection on the Blk Art Group, con- ference talk delivered at Reframing the Moment: Legacies of the 1982 Blk Art Group Conference, University...

...," and is of birth. The work gives a false sense of "The Unmapped Body: Three Black tally montaged archival footage and formally reminiscent of John Akomfrah's...

... on a crucial mo• artists, and film makers like Stuart Hall, Paul element: a cautious racialism preferred by the ment of 20th century modernity. Three years Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, Isaac Julien, John likes of Booker T. Washington against...