... work as she focuses on spatial dynamics and the ethics and politics of audience participation. The work expands political and ethical questions about woman as “sign” and the tensions that exist within the idea of woman as a collective “we.” The reviewer foregrounds the dense intertextuality of...

... floodgates opened. of Sarah Lawrence College; Barbara Jackson was 98 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 37 • November 2015 a former Ebony Fashion Fair model and wife of a French star slated to participate in the French part record executive; Charlene Dash had already graced of the show...

... mirrored the traveling show’s objective to bring the best in international fashion to its audiences. The exhibition, however, explored more than stellar fashion—it attempted to reveal the fashion show’s power to deeply resonate with the African American women who comprised the majority of its audience...

... participate in in not having to say where you come from. So can you order to decode it. In fact, you never do decode the talk a little bit about the formal strategies to avoid work. So work which treats you not as a viewer, or capture in The Radiant? as a guest, or even as an audience, but as a potential...

... topical visual commentary on race, which consciously crosses between high and popular culture and audiences. ary orbit of his chosen vocation by (itself produced by David’s studio in A NEW REPUBLIC inserting b-boys into compositions ve...

...Elleni (Centime) Zeleke This article examines how the Ethiopian Swedish artist Loulou Cherinet portrays the construction of gender and nation as a balancing act between men and women, local and international forces. In particular, the essay focuses on how she forces her audience to confront the...

... diverse public the audience, whose participation and engagement ranging from African film specialists and fans to grew as the six-­week festival progressed. curiosity seekers, local African communities, and Although drawing largely on the selection they students from varied fields. Two...

... displays in town). The curators invited a number of established artists from Brazil and Europe. Nevertheless, Luntumbue made it his mission to anchor the event in the complex reality of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to take the people of Lubumbashi as his primary audience. He speaks about how...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu This panel discussion examines the role of museums in bringing the work of African artists to the consciousness of the contemporary world. The topics covered include the participants’ first meaningful encounters with contemporary African art, the role of the curator of...

... Barbara Jones Hogu was a founding member of AfriCOBRA, a collective of painters, photographers, printmakers, textile designers, and sculptors that Jeff Donaldson founded in 1968 in Chicago. This interview covers Jones Hogu’s participation in AfriCOBRA and deals with questions about the group’s...

... ini- aesthetic feeling, is a formula that affects not only tiatives, experimental platforms, and examples of those who participate actively in a historical event social criticism conducted by a wide range of cre- but also those who observe it from a distance. The ators...

.... Germany on the occasion of the The unique material for creat• huge global fiesta of art and tech ing sculpture as well as the christened Expo 2000. The bam• diversity of participation suc• boo experiment was also sequel cinctly gave succour to the...

...• amidst an unrelenting barren eral of the participants chose to landscape. explicitly address it in their work...

... artists are less what happens locally and what happens abroad are savvy about communication. They participate in so interdependent that it is hard to have the same biennales to present their work to foreigners and discourse we had in 2005. 168 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41...

... by participating in a contentious panel discussion, Post-Black: every sense of the word. It is in this space that There and Back Again (June 1, 2008). Dawoud Bey was in audiences can encounter work that plays on the attendance for a...

... paintings, creating his own versions in a critical and walls of the gallery and invites the audience's participation. satirical style. These are mostly large paintings executed in tex• Through these performances, Musa redirects the audience's focus tile ink on printed cloth. In his latest series...

.... Both workshops have to trust that they will take care of themselves.”27 provided better insight into this genre within the Traditionally, devotees of Esu carry its statue art academy and gave participants an opportunity in public highways. The audience, in appreciation, to explore themes that...

... Akomfrah, lean Pierre Bekolo etc.— who have a limited audience within the continent. Some...

... not just participating in the typical film reviewers' tendencies toward the hyperbolic. In fact, the importance of the film's appearance at AND THE PAN...

... they could find for makeshift playgrounds, parents planted gar• participants were invited in to see their work displayed and to dens, artists created artparks Continuing this precedent, participate in other performances. The rhythmic percussion of performance artist Anna...