Work Type:Video work
Date of work:2007
Copyrights:John Akomfrah
Subject:community, bi-racial, J.B. Priestly,
Text Reference:The Ghost of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective. Edited by the Otolith Group, The Ghost of Songs is a fully illustrated volume. Published by FACT, Liverpool University Press and Chicago University Press.
Description:
In his 1933 travelogue English Journey, J.B Priestly recalled visiting a school in Liverpool, where he spoke with a number of bi-radical school children. John Akomfrah visited Liverpool to explore the very community Priestly described in his book. Through a mixture of archival footage and interviews with the great-grandchildren of Priestly's encounter, A Touch of the Tar Brush challenges the notion that radical purity is a necessary constituted of English national identity.
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Source:FACT produced literature, to accompany the exhibition.
Date of source:2007