Screening: The Stuart Hall Project (2013)

John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project (2013) is a film about the life and work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Through archival footage, Hall’s own words and the music of Miles Davis, Akomfrah follows Hall’s journey and explores his thinking on race, identity, politics and culture. 

Presented in the context of Andrew Pierre Hart’s If you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise, the screening brings Stuart Hall’s ideas into conversation with the exhibition’s exploration of sound, painting, improvisation and collective memory. Hart’s practice approaches music and painting as interconnected forms of thinking and making, while Akomfrah’s film draws on archival images, music and Stuart Hall’s own words to trace how culture, identity and political consciousness take shape across time. Together, the exhibition and film consider how artistic practice, music and cultural memory carry ideas between generations, and how these ideas continue to shape the ways we understand ourselves and the world around us. 

Programme: 
6.00–7.00pm: Exhibition viewing 
7.00pm: Introduction and screening 

Film duration: 1h39min 

Location: 
Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Arts