Studio visit with Kojo Marfo —

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DRAGON BOYS

Production Assistant: Hannah Clark B-Camera: Joshua Nartey & Solomon Armah  Styling & Fire Choreography: Prince Aryee Body painting & Acrobatic Choreography: Emmanuel Laryea Editor: Tom Ringsby Colourist: Andi Chu @ Black Kite Studios Title design: Sam Osmond MUSIC Original music composed, recorded and mixed by Dicky at Migration Studios Hand drums and flute performed by Jah Izi Xylophone performed by Alex Andre K Akpe 5.1 Mix by Bendik Toming @ Family Day Recordings Vocal performances by: Prince Aryee Bright Anokye Solomon Kotey Neequaye Augustus Lutterodt Emmanuel Laryea Migration Studios assistant: Lettice Weedie Shot on Kodak film Processed at Kodak Film Lab UK  An Intergalactic Studios Production THANKS Abajo, Madam Gold, Akosia, Black Jesus, Vuyo, Philip Syse, Henry Gill, Rhory Danniells, Simon Halsall, Frogner Kino One Love.

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DARKROOM

At the modern-day crossroads of Turkey and Syria, the neighborhood of Istasyon is taken over by children with cameras. Through their gaze, they transform cinder block villages into portals and roam freely across abandoned train tracks to Sirkhane Darkroom, an oasis of red light and pomegranate trees, where their images are born. Darkroom is an experimental and celebratory portrait of Istasyon’s youth and their capacity to forge an alternate reality within a conflict zone. Embedded in this vibrant 16mm film, a co-creation between the film crew and these photography students is a reverence for the mysterious power and intimacy of analog image-making. Starring - SIRKHANE DARKROOM Additional Camera - STUDENTS AT SIRKHANE DARKROOM WORKSHOP Sound Mixer - AIDAN REYNOLDS Colorist - BRENNAN BARSELL Produced by - ASLI BAYKAL GILLIAN GARCIA RAF FELLNER Executive Producer - ASLI BAYKAL SERBEST SALIH

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00:58

Bendik Giske - CTM festival - Berlin 2019

Bendik Giske is a queer artist and saxophonist who utilises physicality, vulnerability, and endurance to solder together jazz and club music with mesmerising performance. Giske takes the building blocks of electronic music and plays it live – without layering or looping – to the best of his ability, allowing human vulnerabilities to emerge. Bendik Giske live at HAU1 in Berlin during CTM festival 2019 - Persistence. Composed and performed by Bendik Giske Performance by LEGZ aka. Julian Fricker Costume by Sasa Kovacevic and Jochen Kronier

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Wiggliness

Photography by Simón Colombo and Gerónimo Tanoira. With the participation of Bautista Bengolea, Agustín Miles and Pato Carrere. Music and foley by Geronimo Tanoira. Transfer by Leche. Monologue by Alan Watts in "Conversations with myself". Kodak Super 16mm film.

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08:23

Jeppe Hein, Today I feel like …

Jeppe Hein’s workshop Today I feel like ... involves children taking part in a series of simple breathing exercises, after which they will be asked to paint how they feel. By encouraging participants to pause and reflect on their emotions, Today I feel like... invites all of us––children and adults alike––to share our feelings more openly, ultimately leading to better mental health outcomes as well as a stronger sense of community.

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02:34

A SHOT IN THE FOOT

"We shot an experimental fashion visualizer on 16mm & 35mm film. This project was originally conceptualized as a metaphor for my angst as a freelance artist, in all its chaos and uncertainty. I believe in powerful yet vulnerable storytelling for women, of women, and by women." The story follows an Asian girl assassin who operates only at night. She is quick and innovative, and what she does, she does best: she’s a killer. But she flies a bit too close to the sun; she grows careless, she parties too hard, and the thrill of the money eclipses the risk of danger. She gets sloppy, but the jobs keep coming, and there is no one except herself to clean up the mess she leaves behind.

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03:51

The Jagged Drama of Clyfford Still’s Paintings

Sotheby’s Chairman Lisa Dennison explores the striking forms and chromatic intensity and of Clyfford Still’s PH144 (1947-Y-No.1). With its forceful combination of deep black, bright yellow and crimson red, this monumental work embodies everything that Still stood for as an artist and was notably selected by Still himself for inclusion in his seminal 1959 exhibition Paintings by Clyfford Still.

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03:06

Bon - Pantheon - Flora 4k

"We wanted to create a record using samples from recordings we created ourselves that were calm, romantic and had a natural, timeless feel. Something weathered and low-fi, but Hi-Fi and complete all at the same time. Something with the spirit of a well-loved worn-out cassette but using cutting edge production techniques. Hiss, noise and distortion are all treated here as instruments in these compositions. Asking the questions "What is quality, perfection and character and what do these words mean to us". We took our own recordings and manipulated them, letting them evolve through the technology, reflecting the cyclical and evolutionary nature of all creative processes."

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04:18

Cédric Kouassi Tchinan

Cédric Kouassi Tchinan is an artist based in the Ivory Coast whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. His vivid optical art-inspired works speak of the spirit and of reflection. In addition, Tchinan explores themes relating to "odyssey", which represents our life journeys. He believes that although the path is difficult, it can also be viewed as a game that we can learn valuable lessons from.

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03:13

Lee Lozano with Dr Jo Applin

Jo Applin gives an insight into both Lee Lozano’s life and her work, contextualizing her practice and highlighting her response to the constraints of constitutional systems, gender dynamics, power, money, and politics. Created in 1962–1963, the early paintings and drawings on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset use airplanes as a central image and can be considered as examples of the artist’s passionate exploration of creative energy in its purist form. This focused body of early work exposes a complex and deeply intimate inner life grappling with one-sided gender and societal dichotomies, while other works display a form of ferocious humour and playfulness, exploiting the rhetoric of exaggeration to its most cogent effect. Her raw expressionist brush strokes create powerful works imbued with a very personal iconography, including genitals, religious symbols, tools and body parts. Lozano’s short lived but influential career remains a source of fascination, lauded by Lucy Lippard as the foremost female conceptual artist of her era in New York.

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MAFF Market New York 🇺🇸: Courtney Kinnare

Courtney Kinnare is an abstract artist based out of Brooklyn, New York. Her abstract works are made from deadstock materials found on the streets of NYC. She fills her designs with hyper-color palettes rarely observed in the everyday life.

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The Films of Andy Warhol | Live from the Whitney

To celebrate the publication of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, 1963–1965, Volume 2, this program illuminates Andy Warhol’s practice as a filmmaker, exploring the relationship between his films and his work in other media, and the importance of his films to twentieth-century art history. John G. Hanhardt, general editor of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, 1963–1965, and former Curator and Head of Film and Video at the Whitney, will be joined by film scholar Bruce Jenkins and filmmaker Tom Kalin, contributors to the catalogue raisonné, to speak about the history of Warhol’s engagement with cinema and to share insights into why Warhol's films have been influential for generations of artists while also remaining largely unknown until now.

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Studio visit with Kojo Marfo

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JD Malat Gallery visited the studio of Ghanaian artist Kojo Marfo to find out more about his practice and the inspiration behind his work.

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Rafael Barros

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#contemporary

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