Stuart Hall 1932-2014

Having been greatly affected by the life of Stuart Hall, I respectfully acknowledge his passing this week and the sorrow of so many colleagues and friends, and both his immediate and wider family.

Stuart Hall in the Stuart Hall Library at Iniva in Rivington Place

Obituary in The Guardian Education section here 

Martin Jacques in The Observer
'It is difficult to think of anyone else that has offered such a powerful insight into what has been happening to us over the past 70 years.'

Autograph ABP notice, photo and video interview here
Autograph ABP commissioned film by John Akomfrah The Unfinished Conversation is on at Tate Britain until 23 March 2014.

The Jacques Ranciere blog posting on remembering Stuart Hall here, and look for other entries. Paul Bowman calls for the project to continue, to us all to disrupt and reconfigure things

Mark Levine on Stuart's revolutionary legacy on Al Jazeera

The Stuart Hall Project (103mins, UK 2013) directed by John Akomfrah is available to rent online from the BFI player here

The Stuart Hall Project (2013) - trailer

Vivid Memories - An Aboriginal Art HIstory at Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux

IDAIA post on this exhibition here

Here is a quote of Henry Skerritt:
“these works have to be stunningly beautiful because of what they’re trying to do … to enact all of the power of the landscape, and it’s a power that they see in the shifting of the light, in the blossoming of the desert blooms, in the movement of the sand dunes; all of these things are enactments of this spiritual power of the landscape. It has to be beautiful because what it’s trying to do is occupy you…. These are not sentinels standing guard to protect their culture against the onslaught of colonialism. These are not defensive paintings, these are actually occupying forces and the point of them is to travel out into the world … to impress upon you with this purely affective visual power, to realize how powerful this landscape is.”[v]

http://www.idaia.com.au/en/article-make-it-new-make-it-now-just-what-is-it-that-makes-australian-aboriginal-art-so-appealing-so-contemporary/