A conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, exploring how
his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in
sensuous ways.
Taking the form of a conversation with filmmaker and artist John
Akomfrah, this book sets out to explore how Akomfrah's work with montage
can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways. In
multilayered video installations, sequences of images are forced into
the same time and space, allowing the viewer to experience connections
in her/his/their present. With examples from many of his key works,
topics discussed include untold histories and the diaspora, migration,
and the enigma of arrival. Akomfrah defines his way of working with
montage not only as a technique but as an ethic, an ontology in which
differences are brought together.