TALK – SALVAGED RHYTHMS: APPAU JNR BOAKYE-YIADOM AND SOPHIE J WILLIAMSON
Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom discusses his new commission and practice with curator and writer Sophie J Williamson.
An extension of their ongoing dialogue, this online event provides an opportunity to explore Boakye-Yiadom’s use of drums and improvised music within his multimedia installations, and how his works shuttles between function and aesthetic quality to unmoor fixed cultural representations.
BIOGRAPHIES
Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom (b. 1984, London) graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. Recent exhibitions include: Jerwood Solo Presentations, London (2019), Before: Adaptive Rhythm, Black Tower Projects, London (2018, solo); The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2019); Michael Jackson: On The Wall, Touring National Portrait Gallery, London, Paris Grand Palais, Paris, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany (2018/19); V22 Young London, London (2018); Scenes from a Chasm, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York (2018); 13th Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar (2018); Screening works for Hanging Out, Artists’ Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland, UK (2019), Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery Festival, London, UK (2019)
Sophie J Williamson is Programme Curator (Exhibitions) at Camden Arts Centre, currently on a year-long sabbatical.
Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom discusses his new commission and practice with curator and writer Sophie J Williamson.
An extension of their ongoing dialogue, this online event provides an opportunity to explore Boakye-Yiadom’s use of drums and improvised music within his multimedia installations, and how his works shuttles between function and aesthetic quality to unmoor fixed cultural representations.
BIOGRAPHIES
Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom (b. 1984, London) graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. Recent exhibitions include: Jerwood Solo Presentations, London (2019), Before: Adaptive Rhythm, Black Tower Projects, London (2018, solo); The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2019); Michael Jackson: On The Wall, Touring National Portrait Gallery, London, Paris Grand Palais, Paris, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany (2018/19); V22 Young London, London (2018); Scenes from a Chasm, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York (2018); 13th Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar (2018); Screening works for Hanging Out, Artists’ Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland, UK (2019), Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery Festival, London, UK (2019)
Sophie J Williamson is Programme Curator (Exhibitions) at Camden Arts Centre, currently on a year-long sabbatical.
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