Purple
texts John Akomfrah
- Author(s)
- Harald Kunde, John Akomfrah
- Publication
- Kleve (Ge) : Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2019
- Scope
- 34 Pages, illustrated, col. 14,5 cm.
Leaflet / catalogue accompanying the screening of Purple (2017), Akomfrah’s immersive, six-channel video installation about global warming presented at Museum Kurhaus Kleve(Ge), March to September 2020. More than once, Akomfrah describes Purple as “a response to the Anthropocene”. A major source of inspiration for the video installation is Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, written by Timothy Morton (2013). It posits the idea that global warming is the most dramatic illustration of a “hyperobject” – an entity of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that it baffles our traditional ways of thinking about it and, by extension, doing something about it. The texts by Akomfrah were transcribed from the video’s John Akomfrah on Creating ‘Purple’ and John Akomfrah. Why History Matters.
- Person as subject
- John Akomfrah
- Keywords
- film , anthropocene , installation - immersive
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 2: Video ; Film
- Remarks
- Incl. Biography