As his film installation Listening All Night to the Rain goes on show at the 2024 Venice Biennale, the British-Ghanaian artist talks about ecocide, memory and migration
Listening, for Akomfrah, has always been a form of activism, one that originated in the formative club spaces of his teenage years. “The references I’ve made to club culture and 70s dub spaces is that, in those spaces, the sonic was an agentive device. We were made, we were created via the sonic, we found ourselves through the music and with the music.” Listening as self-discovery also chimes with Pauline Oliveros, the late American composer known for her meditative philosophy of deep listening.
I’m trying to get people to understand that we’re talking about listening as a force, which has profound philosophical, cultural and political implications for how you understand what people are, how they become and what they should be lending their lives to.” The neo-classical splendour of the British pavilion provides an ideal context for any consideration of cultural and political forces, and Akomfrah has relished the encounter.
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