[email protected] [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Cauleen Smith experimental film Hurricane Katrina jazz diasporic ceremonial culture H-E-L-L-O in Five Notes A Call Back to the Real Megan Kincaid and Summer Sloane-Britt Cauleen Smith, video still from H-E-L-L-O, 2014. Digital...

... thinking, the ruptures and disassembling in vernacular speech in the Francophone Caribbean result in an “exemplary phenomenon,” a “counterpoetics,” and a “compact mass, pushing us through a dimension of emptiness where we must with difficulty and pain put it all back together. ” Glissant’s idea...

...Elodie Silberstein Look Back at It (2016) is a cutting-edge interpretation of Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) by African American multidisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. The work is a collage of magazine cuttings. The action is set in the vogue ballroom scene, a counterculture...

... artists employed abstraction—histories that often begin in the mid-1960s or 1970s. In examining the mid-1950s Plaiton works, I hope to both bring Cousins and his work back to visibility and suggest that this history actually began substantially earlier. [email protected] © 2022 by Nka...

...Elizabeth W. Giorgis Ethiopian artist Dawit Abebe’s Jerba paintings were first exhibited in Addis Ababa in 2015. Jerba , a word that means “back” or “background,” is a series of mixed media and acrylic paintings concerned with historical memory and the political and cultural accounts attending...

... to analyze the site, Mountain Time Arts convened a diverse group of participants. Their research question became, What does it take to change the name of a river? After six months of research, the project centered on the act of changing the name of the East Gallatin River back to the Indigenous Crow name...

... the black body in art has been displaced by its surrogate: a facialization of the black body as pure surface, the phallicization and epidermalization of the black subject as nothing more than his or her skin. To destabilize this body, these artists seek to get back to what Hortense Spillers describes...

..., and social meanings of blackness and the body. Second, it argues that these artists directly challenge the seeming invisibility of black bodies in Western art history by reworking the linear trajectory of canonical discourses. They do not so much insert black bodies back into the Western canon as reveal...

... to the curators’ intentions. The new pavilions representing Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Haiti brought an influx of artistic positions to Venice but also demonstrated anxiety about under-or misrepresenting their art scenes back home. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Conspicuous...

... of extraordinary vulnerability — at the instant of the opening of the eyes after a prolonged period of relaxation. By also photographing the back of each subject's head, character is further revealed through the particularities of skull, neck and hairstyle. This series of images raises the issue of just how...

... was Mengiste Nka • 183 there. He was stationed in Gondar. He lived in legs? Look: it is as if they are standing on a hill, these Asmara. Do you know this village near Adua? He two. Shadows like stains collecting in neat pools of loved your country. He asked to be sent back. He dark earth behind them, hats...

...Tracy Murinik Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 The palms of hands, the small of the back, the nape of the neck, under the belly, the soles of the feet, (from Truth Veils) 1999, Five digital prints, five contact prints. The sudden international...

..., fleshy back, but the muscular Such painful bodily interven• Perform activity. This ephemeral desired reactions and gendered...

... for a little orchestra that we'd formed, they didn't—in Fort Scott, at least, they didn't expose and that was my first taste of being a performer, but it you to literature, and I think that I would have been didn't sink in deeply. But when I look back I realize all absolutely shocked to have seen...

... him at one gallery, visitors went signs can be brought back to real• 1989, (a recording of all the looking for him at the other. But ity, since reality is in itself para• Yaounde radio stations playing one...

... Kearney's inner tubes, carpet stripes, and tassels in Thando Mama, Back to Me, video installation (still). Courtesy the artist. Spring/Summer 2008 Nka*131 Hermaphrodite and ceramic and metal in Sit...

... the specific per• part of youI am black, yes. I'm space, with the projector positioned as far ceptual conditions he imposes on the view• British as well. But as Miles Davis back in the opposing direction as is neces• ers of his work as an attempt to induce...

... and themselves to the local portrait studio for images of gender, while others explore fashion’s ways of show- themselves dressed in the latest, usually borrowed, ing how fragile claims to racial authenticity often fashions to send back south to relatives as proof they are, as well as the many ways in which...

... the aluminum and steel houses to the I said goodbye to Angela in front of the Musee colonies as lightweight, easy to transport in cargo Rodin, and went back to my apartment in the planes, and able to be assembled in a short amount I3eme Arrondissement. All along my metro jour• of time...