Lessons of the Hour, London 1983 (Who Killed Colin Roach?)
Isaac Julien
Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
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- Title
- Lessons of the Hour, London 1983 (Who Killed Colin Roach?)
- Gallery
- Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 38 min
‘Who Killed Colin Roach?’ is Isaac Julien’s first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23-year-old who was shot in Stoke Newington Police Station in North London, in 1982. Even though the police claimed Roach had committed suicide, evidence showed otherwise. In 2018, while Julien was making Lessons of the Hour, he rediscovered photographs in his archive and reassembled the images so they dialogue with Lessons of the Hour. They show the people marching and demanding an independent enquiry into the circumstances of Colin Roach’s death. Intimidatory police tactics against the campaign demonstrations have been choreographed to the militant beat of the Mad Professor’s dub score, and the unity of black politics and culture is vividly conveyed by the poets and musicians who perform at a benefit for the campaign.
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Isaac Julien
- Artist
Isaac Julien CBE RA, is a critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker. In 2018, Julien joined the faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz where he is a distinguished professor of the arts and leads the Isaac Julien Lab together with Arts Professor Mark Nash.
Recent international solo exhibitions include: Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi—A Marvellous Entanglement, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain, and MAXXI, Rome (2020–2021); Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour, McAvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (2020–2021) and Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats, Neuberger Museum, New York (2020).
Julien has previously exhibited at venues including Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), Art Institute of Chicago (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2012), and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2005). Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award 2017 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2017.
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Galerie Ron Mandos
- Address
- Prinsengracht 28, 1016 HJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Phone
- +31 (0) 20 320 7036
- info@ronmandos.nl
- Website
- www.ronmandos.nl
Founded in 1999, the last decade has seen Galerie Ron Mandos develop an ever more ambitious exposition program at its spacious location in the Amsterdam gallery district. It has forged close relations with internationally renowned artists such as Hans Op de Beeck, Isaac Julien and Jacco Olivier and has been keen to draw in emerging international names such as Anthony Goicolea, Daniel Arsham and Levi van Veluw to its program. Ron Mandos´ policy is directed towards presenting actual developments in contemporary art. It seeks to give a platform to those works where the complex interrelations of artist, artwork and everyday experience are played out and where new and dynamic ways of representation are continually sought so as to shed light on the unexpected and previously hidden aspects of everyday experience.