Akomfrah’s latest art work, Purple, is an immersive, six-channel video installation that attempts to evoke the incremental effects of climate change on our planet. Like all of Akomfrah’s work, it requires the viewer to surrender to sensory overload, while remaining alert to the often oblique connections being made throughout. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Sensory overload’: a still from Purple, Akomfrah’s immersive, six-channel video installation about global warming. Once you become aware of the implications of climate change for future generations, it is almost as if you have to respond. We need to start looking at climate change in radically different ways, not just as part of a western-based development narrative.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2017 06:56 UTC