...Hudita Nura Mustafa Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 1UM0U SY The African Place, Dakar, Senegal Hudita Nura Mustafa...

... reached Contemporary African Art, Dakar, its limits. It needs to be rein• Senegal. From a modest begin• forced by complementary mea...

...Joanna Grabski This article focuses on Viyé Diba’s Tout Se Sait (2014), a mixed-media installation that framed and evoked the experience of Dakar’s streets. Exhibited at the Koba Club in downtown Dakar during the Dak’Art Biennale 2014, this proposition expanded on themes, approaches, and materials...

...Penny M. Von Eschen This article explores implicit as well as explicit debates over modernity among African American artists at the 1966 World Festival of Black Arts held in Dakar, Senegal, honing in on moments that reveal tensions among the artists as well as between artists and the US officials...

... in the United States, and others such as Africa Remix have been touring Europe and Japan. The 50"' Venice Biennale featured Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, while Dak'Art 2004, the Biennale of Contemporary African Art, took place in Dakar...

...Susan Kart Market Imaginary represents a welcome departure from traditional documentary coverage of African peoples. By focusing on a historic market, the Marché Colobane, in Dakar, director Joanna Grabski subverts stereotypes and expectations of consumerism and art making in Senegal. Grabski...

...Hudita Nura Mustafa Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 Textile Market, Dakar, Senegal, 1993. Fashion A s with most world cities, it is impossible to walk in a Dakar...

.... The works in this exhibition were made while Kalidou Sy lived in the United States from 1997 to 2005. Originally from Dakar, Sy moved...

... luminaries from the world's African Diaspora, DAK'ART 96's opening cer• The Dakar Biennale emonies included an audience con• sisting of officials from the World...

... of Dakar, the event celebrated its seventh edition in and ideological foundation. From its inception, May 2006 and is increasingly acknowledged as a Dak'Art intended to rectify the marginalization of major platform, and even institution, for mediat• African artists from...

... of Negro Arts (Dakar, Senegal, 1966), the International Meeting of Sculptors (Mexico City, 1968), and the Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969). The transnational relationships and growing solidarity with Third Worldism and Pan-Africanism evident in the exhibition history of the 1960s show the ways...

... necessarily privileged certain artists and cultural workers with the means and/or governmental and United Nations support to travel. During the same era, popular print magazines became an important vector of transnational black affinities. In the case of Bingo magazine (based in Paris and Dakar...

... In January 1977, Lagos, Nigeria, was hosting the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC). It was a grander version of the first World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN), held in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, and gathered fifteen thousand participants coming from more than...

... or absent, such as his works presented in Dakar’s eleventh biennale (2014) and Martinique’s first biennale (2013). Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 performance art disembody Goddess Constellations Caribbean art sign and symbol FROM BODY TO DISEMBODIMENT...

... us to carefully sidestep some of the misconceptions about Journal of Contemporary African Art • 36 • May 2015 88 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2914350  © 2015 by Nka Publications Kader Attia, Indépendance Tchao, 2014. Installation view at Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, 2014...

... for discovering Isaid in discussion about his work nection that signals some promise of that perfect lover or that magic in Dakar that seemed to encapsu• success. moment. In the process he challenged a late so much of what biennales...

... to since the 1960s, Sembene represents African fight for France. The war has just ended, and cinema as part of a tradition of political the soldiers are in a transit camp outside Dakar...

... art privileges Set/Setal movement in Dakar in which young people, disgrun• anthropomorphic imagery predominantly informed by the face tled by the lack of jobs and the city's urban decay, took to the and body of Sheikh Amadou Bamba. Within the exhibition...

... in Africa, "Henna Mania: Body Painting as a Dakar. Mustafa's investigation of the between the development of multiple Fashion Statement, From Tradition to rise of fashion during an unstable...

..., the Biennale functions under the patronage of Senegal's Ministry of Culture, and is organ• O ized by the Secretariat General de la Biennale de Dakar, supported by a government-appointed council known as Conseil Scientifique, presumably made up of independent art specialists...