To coincide with the UK premiere of John Akomfrah’s acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea, the artist in conversation with academic, editor and writer, Anthony Downey.
Vertigo Sea now on at Arnolfini, Saturday 16 January 2016 to Sunday 10 April 2016, 11:00 to 18:00, Free Admission
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/john-akomfrah-vertigo-sea-1
A founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, his work has been shown in museums and exhibitions around the world including the Liverpool Biennial; Documenta 11, Centre Pompidou, the Serpentine Gallery; Tate; and Southbank Centre, and MoMA, New York. A major retrospective of Akomfrah’s gallery-based work with the Black Audio Film Collective premiered at FACT, Liverpool and Arnolfini, Bristol in 2007. His films have been included in international film festivals such as Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, amongst others. He has recently been shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 7 prize.
Anthony Downey is an academic, editor and writer. Recent and upcoming publications include Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2015); Art and Politics Now (Thames and Hudson, 2014); Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in North Africa and the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2014);Slavs and Tatars: Mirrors for Princes (JRP Ringier, 2015); and The Future of a Promise: Contemporary Art from the Arab World (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011).
Image: John Akomfrah, Veritgo sea. Arnolfini (Stuart Whipps)
