John Akomfrah
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Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli May dabaa anahi dali yuuni 1957)[1] nyɛla Ghana bilichini ŋun nyɛ British nucheeni baŋda, sabira, sinii darata n-ti pahi sinii sabira.[2]
Ŋun nyɛ ŋun daa piligi Black Audio Film Collective yuuni 1982, o daa tumi niŋ o darata tali tuma ni Handsworth Songs (1986) ka di nyɛ din jandi 1985 Handsworth riots.[3] Handsworth Songs nyɛla din daa di Grierson Award zaŋ n-ti Best Documentary yuuni 1987.[4]
With Lina Gopaul mini David Lawson nyɛ o mini ban tooi laɣindi yaari siniinima, Akomfrah nyɛla ŋun daa sɔŋ ka bɛ daa piligi Smoking Dogs Films yuuni 1998.[5] Yuuni 2023 New Year Honours, o nyɛla ŋun daa deei knighthood pini ka di nyɛla kpaŋmaŋ shɛli o ni niŋ nucheeni baŋsim tuma ni zuɣu.[6]
Akomfrah nyɛla bɛ ni daa piigi so ni o zani n-ti Britain yuuni 2024 Venice Biennale.[7]
Solo presentations
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Akomfrah nyɛla ŋun mali "solo presentations" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2022),[8] Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (2019),[9] Bildmuseet din be Umeå, Sweden (2015), Broad Art Museum, East Lansing (2014), Tate Britain, London (2013), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2012), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011) n-ti pahi British Film Institute din be BFI Gallery (2010).[10]
Yuuni 2013, o tuma puuni shɛli The Unfinished Conversation nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛli wuhi salo Tate Britain chira ayobu yuuni 2013 ka daa nya National Collection.[11] O ni daa niŋdi o 10th anniversary daabiligu, The Unfinished Conversation nyɛla bɛ ni daa niŋ shɛli Midlands Arts Centre ka di daa nyɛ din pahi Birmingham yuuni 2022 chuɣu ni.[12]
O yuuni 2015 tuma, Vertigo Sea daa nyɛla sinii shɛli bɛ ni daa zaŋ wuhi salo 56th Venice Biennale silimiin goli May yuuni 2015.[13][11] Vertigo Sea nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛli wuhi salo ban be UK, Arnolfini din be Bristol (16 January–10 April 2016)[14] [15]
Purple (2017) din daa nyɛ minti pihiyobu ni ayi nyɛla niriba pam ni daa bori shɛli Barbican, London, Akomfrah nyɛla ninvuɣ so bɛ ni daa yɛli ni ŋun su Anthropocene".[16] A tie-in series sinii nyɛla bɛ ni daa niŋ shɛli silimiin goli October yuuni 2017 ka bɛ ni daa niŋ li luɣ'shɛli ŋɔ nyɛ Barbican Cinema.[17] Di nyɛla bɛ ni daa lahi shɛli Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden; the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden din be Washington, DC n-ti pahi Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon.[18][19][9][8]
Awards and honours
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Akomfrah nyɛla bɛ ni daa piigi so Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) yuuni 2008 New Year Honours zaŋ n-ti kpaŋmaŋ shɛli o ni niŋ n-ti sinii tuma yaɣili.[20] Silimiin goli March yuuni 2012, o nyɛla bɛ ni daa ti so European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margaret pini.[21]
Yuuni 2013, o nyɛla ŋun daa deei "doctorate" shɛhira gbaŋ University of the Arts London[22] mini Goldsmiths, University of London.[23][24] Yuuni 2014, o daa deei la"doctorate" shɛhira gbaŋ Portsmouth University.[25][26]
Yuuni 2017, Akomfrah nyɛla ŋun daa di Artes Mundi Prize, UK nima pini titali zaŋ n-ti international art,[27][28] [29]
Akomfrah nyɛla bɛ ni daa piigi so Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) yuuni 2017 Birthday Honours zaŋ n-ti kpaŋmaŋ shɛli o ni niŋ n-ti sinii tuma yaɣili.[30] O nyɛla ŋun daa di Artist of the Year yuuni 2018 Apollo Magazine Awards.[31] O nyɛla ninvuɣ bɛ ni daa piigi Royal Academician yuuni 2019.[32]
O daa nyɛla knighted yuuni 2023 New Year Honours zaŋ n-ti kpaŋmaŋ shɛli o ni niŋ nucheeni baŋsim tuma yaɣili.[6][33]
Filmography
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Handsworth Songs (1986); winner of Grierson Award for Best Documentary, 1987
- Testament (1988)
- Who Needs a Heart (1991)
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
- The Last Angel of History (1996)
- Memory Room 451 (1996)
- Call of Mist (1998)
- Speak Like a Child (1998)
- Riot (1999)
- The Nine Muses (2010)
- Hauntologies (Carroll/Fletcher gallery, 2012)
- The Stuart Hall Project (2013), relating to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall
- The Unfinished Conversation (2013)[34][35]
- The March (2013)
- Vertigo Sea (2015)
- Auto Da Fé (2016)
- Untitled (2016)
- The Airport (2016)
- Tropikos (2016)
- Purple (2017)
- Precarity (2018)[36]
- Five Murmurations (2021)[37]
- Arcadia Archived 2024-04-21 at the Wayback Machine (2023)
Kundivihira
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- ↑ British Film Institute ScreenOnline biography.
- ↑ Sandhu, Sukhdev (20 January 2012). "John Akomfrah: migration and memory"". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jan/20/john-akomfrah-migration-memory.
- ↑ Childs, Peter; Storry, Mike, eds. (2002). "Akomfrah, John". Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. London: Routledge. pp. 18–19.
- ↑ The Grierson Trust. Archived 25 Silimin gɔli February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (7 January 2016). "John Akomfrah: 'I haven’t destroyed this country. There's no reason other immigrants would'". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/07/john-akomfrah-vertical-sea-arnolfini-bristol-lisson-gallery-london-migration.
- 1 2 Tɛmplet:London Gazette
- ↑ Adams, Tim (7 April 2024). "Interview‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism". The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/07/artist-john-akomfrah-venice-biennale-listening-all-night-to-the-rain-interview.
- 1 2 John Akomfrah: Purple (en).
- 1 2 At The ICA Watershed, John Akomfrah's 'Purple' Mourns A Planet Lost (en) (23 May 2019).
- ↑ Fabrizi, Elisabetta, The BFI Gallery Book, BFI, London, 2011, pp. 268–279.
- 1 2 "John Akomfrah's new film 'Vertigo Sea' at Venice Biennale" Archived 26 Silimin gɔli March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Invisible Dust, 7 May 2015.
- ↑ Grant, Colin (16 May 2022). "Interview | John Akomfrah on Stuart Hall: 'When I first read him, I thought he was white'". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/16/john-akomfrah-on-stuart-hall-when-i-first-read-him-i-thought-he-was-white.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah", La Biennale di Venezia.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea" Archived 16 Silimin gɔli July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Arnolfini.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah, 22 January – 12 March 2016", Lisson Gallery.
- ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (1 October 2017), "John Akomfrah: 'Progress can cause profound suffering'", The Observer.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah: Purple" Archived 21 Silimin gɔli October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Barbican.
- ↑ 2019 ICA Watershed: John Akomfrah: Purple.
- ↑ John Akomfrah. Purple.
- ↑ Full list of New Years' Honours. BBC News.
- ↑ Akwagyiram, Alexis (20 March 2012), "John Akomfrah: Little known, much decorated film-maker", BBC News.
- ↑ "How to succeed in the arts – UAL’s high profile honourees share their insights" Archived 14 Silimin gɔli June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, University of the Arts London, 23 August 2013.
- ↑ "Goldsmiths to honour leading figures at annual Presentation Ceremonies" Archived 1 Silimin gɔli January 2015 at the Wayback Machine, News from Goldsmiths, 13 September 2012.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah OBE (DLit)", Goldsmiths. Archived 23 Silimin gɔli October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Fairclough, Sashakay (9 July 2014), "Prominent Black Film Director Awarded Honorary Degree", The Voice. Archived 4 Silimin gɔli May 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Luminaries in fashion and film recognised", University of Portsmouth, 9 July 2014. Archived 5 Silimin gɔli March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Ellis-Peterson, Hannah (26 January 2017). "John Akomfrah wins Artes Mundi prize and attacks UK's intolerance". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/26/john-akomfrah-wins-artes-mundi-prize-attacks-uk-intolerance.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah wins £40,000 Artes Mundi prize in Cardiff", BBC News, 26 January 2017.
- ↑ Morris, Jane (27 January 2017). British artist John Akomfrah wins £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize — The Ghanaian-born film-maker’s work draws on themes like migration, colonialisation and the environment.
- ↑ Tɛmplet:London Gazette
- ↑ Ahmed, Fatema (26 November 2018). "Artist of the Year". Apollo.
- ↑ John Akomfrah – Artist. Royal Academy of Arts.
- ↑ John Akomfrah recognised in UK New Year Honours list. Lisson Gallery (1 January 2023).
- ↑ "John Akomfrah – The Unfinished Conversation" at Autograph ABP.
- ↑ Oppon, William (15 January 2014), "The Unfinished Conversation - An Exhibition By John Akomfrah, OBE", Urban Times. Archived 1 Silimin gɔli January 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Urban Times, 15 January 201.
- ↑ "John Akomfrah: Precarity" at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (29 March–2 September 2018).
- ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid
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External links
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Official website
- John Akomfrah at IMDb
- "John Akomfrah" at Lisson Gallery.
- "John Akomfrah" in conversation with Elisabetta Fabrizi at Tyneside Cinema.
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- Black British artists
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- English male screenwriters
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