...Elizabeth Robles This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged...

... black British art history The Other Story black artist exhibitions Transforming the Crown Rasheed Araeen Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 20198 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7916820 © 2019 by Nka Publications Eddie Chambers T ime was, or at least time might have been, when...

... as delinquent, sexually deviant, and a menace to society. The work of Rasheed Araeen is discussed, with particular relevance to his influential use of self-portraiture. The author also discusses mainstream media’s construction of the black male deviant with respect to aspects of the newspaper coverage...

... who Notes have refused to be deterred and influenced by the reversed James Gaywood, "Caught between Differences," unpublished, 1997. stereotyping of black culture in Europe, which Rasheed Araeen...

... by Culture: Modernity and Post• Rasheed Araeen in 1989. The modernity is certainly a valuable show was conceived as a study...

... ( a survey of today s creation in the world48 In ret- rospect, we have to credit him with having created the first event in the emerging new presence of con- temporary global art. Belting Nka 113 Rasheed Araeen, who participated in the event, later objected that Les Magiciens de la Terre did not represent...

.... tors, particularly in Britain through the efforts of Then, behind that swagger was a deep thinker, and Eddie Chambers, Rasheed Araeen, and many oth- he was also from Nigeria, like me. I knew then, at ers at the time. I, along with many Black artists of that very first meeting, that this guy was special...

... of particular attitudes towards the past and the present. This is what makes it hard to have a fixed definition of moder• nity, as it is by nature fluid and constantly subject to renewal. Hence, the claim to modernity, as once suggested by Rasheed Araeen, is wide open and not necessarily a European...

..., the exhibition, viewers default to the discursive an efficient reference to immigration policy and frame of Pan-Africanism as an interpretive lens. prejudice at international airport arrivals for citi• As Rasheed Araeen asked in his analysis of zens of developing countries. The floor of the tun...

.... In the more interesting raising of this modernist corpus from its tomb, as in the work of Felix Gonzalez Torres, Gerhard Richter, Claudia Matzko, Rasheed Araeen and Mona Hatoum, one is eloquently alerted...

... Africa. I remember having lunch many years ago John Picton: In 1989 Rasheed Araeen curated a with colleagues, both academic and curatorial, at a show at the Hayward Gallery in London called conference of the Arts Council of the African Stud- The Other Story. It dealt...

... it of 1966, before being canonized as “minimalist” art “Africanized” in form and modernist in aesthetics, in the late 1960s.12 The inclusion of Nour and other where “Africanism” refers to a deliberate ideologi- non-Western artists such as Rasheed Araeen in the cal act and an aesthetic concern, which...

... and a genealogical view of knowledge/ power systems, which shift, agonistically, over time. See Richard Dyer, Rasheed Araeen in Conversation, Wasafiri 23, no. 1 (2008): 22 33. See also Mercer, Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture, in Travel and See, 227 47. 16 Aquatic passages populate the pages of Caryl...

.... catalogue) ed. Okwui Enwezor (New York: Prestel, 2001), 11 12. 29 Enwezor, Mappa Mundi, in Frank Bowling, 36. 9 For a more comprehensive analysis of modernism, colonial- 30 Enwezor, ed., Chronology, in Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi, ism, and art history, see Rasheed Araeen, Modernity, Modernism, 274...