Black Audio Film Collective

John Akomfrah and Kodwo Eshun present a history lesson on the Black Audio Film Collective.

Black Audio Film Collective was founded at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982 by sociology, fine art and psychology students John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Claire Joseph (who was later replaced by David Lawson) and Trevor Mathison, the group, who later relocated to London, produced some of the most influential films and videos of recent times before formally dissolving in 1998. Despite its currency, the group’s work owes little to the present; it is singular, it inhabits a dimension of timely untimeliness.

Kodwo Eshun and the Otolith Group just curated the "Ghost of Songs", an exhibition about the Black Audio Film Collective and asked: Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?

http://www.frieze.com/feature_single.asp?f=1248
http://www.metamute.org/en/Black-Grammatology