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Listening All Night To The Rain
Listening All Night To The Rain

Listening All Night To The Rain

2024

N/R

Categories:

  • Documentary

Overview:

Listening All Night To The Rain continues John Akomfrah’s abiding interest in post-colonialism, ecology and the politics of aesthetics with a renewed focus on the sonic. Drawing its title from Chinese writer and artist Su Dongpo’s (1037 - 1101) poetry that meditates upon the transitory nature of life during a period of political exile, the exhibition is seen as a manifesto that encourages the act of listening as a form of activism. Conceived as a single landscape or artwork organised into song-like movements or ‘cantos’ that are inspired by American poet Ezra Pound’s (1885 - 1972) journey through history in The Cantos (1925), the exhibition brings together eight multimedia and sound installations.

John Akomfrah

Director

Ashitey Akomfrah

Producer

Lina Gopaul

Producer

David Lawson

Producer

No cast available