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""Freedom ripples as an undercurrent through the works of the British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. For four decades, he has produced boundary-stretching works addressing racism, homophobia, migration and colonialism, from experimental documentaries to lavish multiscreen installations; in all of them an activist spirit is counterbalanced with opulent imagery and sound."" --The New York Times

"""Freedom ripples as an undercurrent through the works of the British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. For four decades, he has produced boundary-stretching works addressing racism, homophobia, migration and colonialism, from experimental documentaries to lavish multiscreen installations; in all of them an activist spirit is counterbalanced with opulent imagery and sound."" --The New York Times"

"""Freedom ripples as an undercurrent through the works of the British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. For four decades, he has produced boundary-stretching works addressing racism, homophobia, migration and colonialism, from experimental documentaries to lavish multiscreen installations; in all of them an activist spirit is counterbalanced with opulent imagery and sound."" -- ""The New York Times"" (4/30/2023 12:00:00 AM)"

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Isabella Maidment is Curator, Contemporary British Art, at Tate Britain. Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer. His debut novel, Open Water, won the Costa Book Award for First Novel in 2021. Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate. Previously, she was Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester; Director of Manchester City Galleries; and Director of Culture for Manchester City Council. Maria is Chair of the National Museum Directors' Council and is a Trustee of the Factory International Board in Manchester. She is also a member of the Women Leaders in Museums Network and a member of the Bizot group of leading global museums. In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for services to the arts. Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Adam Finch is a British film editor, whose work spans drama, documentary and the arts. Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Nina Kellgren, BSC, is a BAFTA-winning cinematographer based in London. Nathan Ladd is Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain. Luigia Lonardelli is a curator at the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI). Mark Nash is an independent curator, film historian and filmmaker with a specialisation in contemporary fine art moving image practices, avant-garde and world cinema. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature. Bradford Young, ASC, is an American cinematographer. His best-known films include Selma, When They See Us, A Most Violent Year, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Arrival, which earned him a nomination for an Academy Award.

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