Live from the Images Festival, day 1:

At the #images festival opening party. @imagesfestival turns 25, @GoetheToronto turns 50--lots of celebrating ahead. #images25



Welcome Ruth Noack, curator of documenta 12 and @imagesfestival 2012 jury member. #images25

Scott miller berry just announces: @imagesfestival shortlisted for Premier's Award! Congrats team #images25!

#JohnAkomfrah 's eligiac Odyssey @imagesfestival -- reminiscent of #Atwood 's Penelopiad.

#JohnAkomfrah 's Nine Muses @imagesfestival -- astounding, curious, mesmerizing, haunting soundtrack.

#JohnAkomfrah 's @imagesfestival makes you, achingly and longingly, part of the human race.

#JohnAkomfrah @imagesfestival talks to @cameron_tiff about his memorial for the arrival generation of immigrants. Whether London or TO.

#JohnAkomfrah @imagesfestival talks to @cameron_tiff about identity in transit, in flight, becoming.

#JohnAkomfrah @imagesfestival talks to @cameron_tiff about his visual imagery: the primal loneliness, coloured-ness, cold of Alaska.
... Alaska as an allegory for the Terrible Beauty of the immigrant experience. #JohnAkomfrah @imagesfestival


by Jutta Brendemuehl, Goethe-Institut Toronto