Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Mobility and Safety: From Learning to Loving in the US course includes a series of public guest panels around living while Black. Tune in for the first event of this spring, featuring John Akomfrah and Garrett Bradley, on February 23 at 1pm.
Event
Black Mobility and Safety Seminar: Black Progress with John Akomfrah and Garrett Bradley
John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah is an artist and filmmaker whose works investigate memory, post-colonialism and temporality, often exploring experiences of migrant diasporas globally. Akomfrah was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside the artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, with whom he still collaborates today. His 2013 film The March, a documentary on the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, presents a poetic meditation on Black Progress today. His work has been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and abroad including Secession, Vienna, Austria; BALTIC, Gateshead, UK; ICA Boston, MA, USA; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; New Museum, New York, NY, USA; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain; MoMA, New York, USA, amongst others. He has also participated in several international events including Prospect 4, New Orleans, LA, USA; 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and recently representing Ghana at the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, amongst other presentations.
Garrett Bradley
Garrett Bradley is an artist who works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, Southern culture, and the history of film in the United States. In January of 2020, Bradley became the first Black woman to win the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition for her feature-length documentary TIME. Bradley’s films have been featured in the solo exhibition American Rhapsody (2019-20) at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and shown in the group exhibitions Bodies of Knowledge at the New Orleans Museum of Art (2019) and the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2019). Her first New York solo exhibition, Projects: Garrett Bradley is on view through March 21, 2021, at The Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition features a multichannel video installation of her film AMERICA (2019).