{"id":11788,"date":"2018-10-23T23:43:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=11788"},"modified":"2022-10-02T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:40:47","slug":"ohn-akomfrah-in-conversation-with-manuela-ribeiro-sanches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/ohn-akomfrah-in-conversation-with-manuela-ribeiro-sanches\/","title":{"rendered":"John Akomfrah in conversation with Manuela Ribeiro Sanches"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_column_text]Date:\u00a0<\/strong>9 November 2018
\nSchedule:<\/strong> 6:30 pm
\nVenue: <\/strong>Hangar \u2013 Artistic Research Centre, Lisbon[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_single_image image=”11790″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Smoking Dogs Films. Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Smoking Dogs Films. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”DETAILS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]John Akomfrah will be in conversation with Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, on the occasion of his solo show \u2018Purple\u2019 at Museu Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Berardo in Lisbon. By looking at both earlier and more recent works, the talk will address Akomfrah\u2019s decade-long aesthetic and ethico-political engagement with histories and memories of slavery, colonialism and anti-colonialism; post-colonial diasporic formations; and the intersections of racism, capitalism and environmental destruction.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Organisation:\u00a0<\/strong>Ana Balona de Oliveira (CEC-FLUL & IHA-FCSH-NOVA), Thinking from the South: Comparing Post-Colonial Histories and Diasporic Identities through Artistic Practices and Spaces.<\/p>\n

Support:<\/strong> Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon; Institute for Art History, New University of Lisbon; Foundation for Science and Technology; Direc\u00e7\u00e3o Geral das Artes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”BIOS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]John Akomfrah<\/strong> (born 1957, Accra, Ghana) lives and works in London. He is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explore the experience of the African diaspora in Europe and the USA. Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside the artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, who he still collaborates with today. Their first film, \u2018Handsworth Songs\u2019 (1986), explored the events surrounding the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London through a charged combination of archive footage, still photos and newsreel. The film won several international prizes and established a multi-layered visual style that has become a recognisable motif of Akomfrah\u2019s practice. Recent works include the three-screen installation \u2018The Unfinished Conversation\u2019 (2012), a moving portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall\u2019s life and work; \u2018Peripeteia\u2019 (2012), an imagined drama visualising the lives of individuals included in two 16th-century portraits by Albrecht D\u00fcrer; and \u2018Mnemosyne\u2019 (2010), which exposes the experience of migrants in the UK, questioning the notion of Britain as a promised land by revealing the realities of economic hardship and casual racism. In 2015, Akomfrah premiered his three-screen film installation \u2018Vertigo Sea\u2019 (2015) that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls \u2018the sublime seas\u2019. Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah\u2019s piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life. In 2017, Akomfrah unveiled \u2018Purple\u2019, an immersive six-channel video installation addressing climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness. More recently, Akomfrah debuted \u2018Precarity\u2019 at Prospect 4 New Orleans. Through archival imagery and newly-shot footage, \u2018Precarity\u2019 follows the life of forgotten New Orleans jazz singer Buddy Bolden.
\nAkomfrah has had numerous solo exhibitions, including: New Museum, New York, USA (2018); Bildmuseet, Ume\u00e5, Sweden (2018); Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (2018); SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA (2018); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (2018); Barbican, London, UK (2017); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2017); University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia (2016); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2016); The Exchange, Penzance, UK (2016); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016); STUK Kunstcentrum, Leuven, Belgium (2016); Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2016); Bildmuseet Ume\u00e5, Sweden (2015); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA (2014); Tate Britain, London, UK (2013-14); and a week-long series of screenings at MoMA, New York, USA (2011). His participation in international group shows has included: \u2018The 1980s: Today\u2019s Beginnings?’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2016); ‘British Art Show 8\u2019 (2015-17); \u2018All the World\u2019s Futures\u2019, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy (2015); \u2018History is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain\u2019, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2015); \u2018Africa Now: Political Patterns\u2019, SeMA, Seoul, South Korea (2014); Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2013); Liverpool Biennial, UK (2012) and Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2012). He has also been featured in many international film festivals, including Sundance Film Festival, Utah, USA (2013 and 2011) and Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2012). In 2007, he won the Artes Mundi Award.<\/p>\n

Manuela Ribeiro Sanches<\/strong>\u00a0taught at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, from 1981 to 2016. Having obtained her PhD with a dissertation on the traveller and revolutionary Georg Forster, her interest in travel literature and related topics, such as the epistemologies that sustain the subjective processes of perceiving and narrating the described objects, led her to broaden her research to the field of the history of anthropology, which she articulated with a cultural studies approach from a postcolonial perspective. Having taught and researched on the effects, until the present, of the processes of (de)colonisation on a cultural and political level, and widely published on these issues, more recently, she became interested in the transnational processes that also marked nationalist anti-colonial movements. Her research interests also include African film, and questions of migration and racism in Europe from a comparative perspective. Recent publications:\u00a0\u2018Europe in Black and White: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the \u201cOld Continent\u201d\u2019\u00a0(Intellect, 2011) and\u00a0\u2018Malhas que os impe\u0301rios tecem. Textos anti- coloniais, contextos po\u0301s-coloniais\u2019\u00a0(Edic\u0327o\u0303es 70, 2011). She is now editing a collection of essays on Cabral, C\u00e9saire and Du Bois due in 2018.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Apoio:” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”10299″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1520421593794{margin-top: -10px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”10296″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1520421505722{margin-top: -10px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”10301″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1520421679108{margin-top: -10px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”10292″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1520421455136{margin-top: -10px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”9630″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”9631″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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