Английская Википедия:Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Bernard Akoi–Jackson (born 1979), is a Ghanaian academic, artist and writer. He is known for projects that are in continual metamorphosis. His art works are mostly performative, or pseudo-rituals.[1] His writings are focused on the development of contemporary African,[2] Ghanaian visual arts and culture in poetic and jovial manner.[3] He is known as a proverbial jester (or Esu)[2] using critical absurdity to move between installations, dance and poetry, video, and photography.[4] He blends post-colonial African identities through transient and makeshift memorials.[5][6]
Early life and education
Akoi-Jackson attended Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, for his secondary school education. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts and PhD in Painting and Sculpture from the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.[1]
Career
In August 2006, he had his first residency at Kofi Setordj's ArtHAUS where he developed his project '' REDTAPEONBOTTLENECK '' as a participatory performance. He had residencies with Stedelijk Museum[7] as "Global-artist-in-residency[3] between 2013 and 2014 and at the Thiami Mnyele artists' residency in Amsterdam. He is a lecturer at the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Exhibitions
- Material Effects: Contemporary Art from West Africa and the diaspora at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
- Spaghetti Harvest, Project 88 Mumbai, India[8]
- Lilith Performance studio Malmo, Sweden[9]
- SCCA – the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (Ghana)[10]
- SaNsA in Accra (2007)
- SaNsA in Kumasi (2009)
- Xerem International Artists’ Residency Home & Abroad in Portugal (2010)
- Moderator of Architecture of Independence in Kumasi (2018)[11]
See also
References
External links
- Bernard Akoi-Jackson at Coriolis Effect, Khoj, 2015
- Lilith Performance - Bernard Akoi Jackson - Untitled: How to Usher [an] African fully into [his]tory
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