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John Akomfrah Read Bio Collapse
John Akomfrah Read Bio Collapse
John Akomfrah is an artist and filmmaker whose works are characterized by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality, aesthetics, and the experiences of migrant diasporas. He is the founder, along with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, of the London-based film and television production company Smoking Dogs Films.
e-flux Criticism
Posted: February 21, 2023
Subjects
Biennials, Decolonization, Historicity & Historiography, Center & Periphery
Remai Modern
Winter 2022 season highlights
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 16, 2022
Category
Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Portraits, Water & The Sea, Games & Play
Institution
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Affect Machine: Self-healing in the Post-Capitalist Era
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 17, 2021
Subjects
Post-capitalism, Affect, Digital Humanities
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: May 10, 2021
Subjects
Blackness, Climate change, Postcolonialism
# 112
The Sea Is About Us
John Akomfrah
“We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!” —Herman Melville, Moby Dick
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 9, 2020
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Water & The Sea
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Non-Aligned
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 5, 2020
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Film
Subjects
Caribbean, Blackness, Postcolonialism
Institution
Secession
John Akomfrah / Michael E. Smith
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 18, 2020
Category
Race & Ethnicity, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Readymade
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 1, 2019
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Climate change, Animals, Environment, Futures
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Summer season 2019
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 23, 2019
Category
Film, Globalization
Subjects
Climate change, Global South, Identity Politics, Storytelling
Institution
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
John Akomfrah: Purple
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 20, 2019
Category
Film
Subjects
Climate change, Water & The Sea, Oceania
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: May 13, 2019
Category
Race & Ethnicity, Nationalism, Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Biennials, Artificial intelligence, Climate change, Water & The Sea
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 13, 2018
Category
Nature & Ecology, Installation, Photography, Urbanism, Image
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, Libraries & Archives, Social Change, Environment, Video Art
Institution
New Museum
Summer 2018 public programming
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 12, 2018
Institution
New Museum
Summer 2018 exhibitions
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 26, 2018
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Performance, Installation, Technology, Education, Painting, Film
Subjects
Computer-Generated Art, Folklore & Tradition, Storytelling, Printmaking, Blackness, Diaspora, Memory, Magic
Institution
Bildmuseet
John Akomfrah: Purple
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 21, 2018
Category
Nature & Ecology, Installation
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, Libraries & Archives, Video Art
Institution
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
John Akomfrah: Purple
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 17, 2018
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Nature & Ecology, Installation
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, Environment, Crisis
Institution
Museu Coleção Berardo
Upcoming exhibitions
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 13, 2018
Category
Photography
Subjects
Postcolonialism, Climate change, Anthropocene, Storytelling, Abstraction, Readymade, Love
Institution
Sharjah Art Foundation
March Meeting 2018 and spring exhibitions
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 11, 2017
Category
Migration & Immigration, Contemporary Art, Nature & Ecology, Urbanism
Subjects
Knowledge Production, Folklore & Tradition, Retrospective, Middle East, Curating
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 6, 2017
Category
Feminism, Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Art Market, Commodification
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 26, 2016
Category
Migration & Immigration, Race & Ethnicity, Film
Subjects
Blackness, Diaspora, Experimental Film
STUK — House for Dance, Image & Sound
John Akomfrah : Auto Da Fé
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 23, 2016
Category
Migration & Immigration, Religion & Spirituality, Film
Subjects
Refugees, Diaspora
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 8, 2016
Category
Film, Economy
Subjects
Video Art, Documentary, Water & The Sea
Institution
Bildmuseet
John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 8, 2015
Category
Film, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Water & The Sea
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: May 7, 2015
Category
Capitalism
Subjects
Biennials, Food & Cooking
School of Architecture + Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cinematic Migrations: a symposium and lecture series
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 14, 2014