Exhibition
The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective
12 Feb 2007 – 18 Mar 2007
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Rivington Place
- London
- EC2A 3BA
- United Kingdom
Event map
About
Inaugurated in 1983 and dissolved in 1998, the 7 person Black Audio Film Collective are widely acknowledged as one of the most influential artist groups to emerge from Britain during the 1980s. From their base in East London, John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Reece Auguiste, Trevor Mathison, David Lawson and Edward George produced award winning film, photography, slide tape, video, installation, posters and interventions, much of which has never been exhibited in Britain.The Ghosts of Songs is the first Retrospective to explore this important body of work. Curated and produced by Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group, it reveals the Collective as resolutely experimental, defiantly articulate artists, dedicated to engaging with the past, present and future of memory, media and moving image.
This exhibition installation has been designed by David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates and was produced in partnership with FACT, Arnolfini, The Whitechapel Gallery, inIVA and Artsadmin.
The Ghosts Of Songs: The Film Art of The Black Audio Film Collective is edited by The Otolith Group and published by FACT, Liverpool University Press and Chicago University Press.
