... Mirage Lignum activating an embodied viewer: visi- tention to the commingled routes of tors perambulate under a boat, past the tourist and migrant. The local and vacant stalls, among...

... in 1994.2 ing the transatlantic voyage. The cur- The man’s fate is unknown: into what All three display black figures in re- rent black sailors appear unaware of is he being baptized by this immer- lation to bodies of blue water that the history of the boat they are trav- sion, and how long can he...

... and women have embarked on dangerous journeys on makeshift boats across the Mediterranean Sea to Eu - Immigration...

... and black pins WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007), again that evoke the conquest and control of African plunges us into the physical and emotional turbu• populations, but also signal the latent power in lence of ocean and migration. these dispersed...

... stand in front of a storefront, obscuring the painting s vanishing point and occupying the deep recesses of Thomasos s mind. This self-portrait is thus a key precursor to Thomasos s larger oeuvre. The painting not only establishes her interest in the mechanisms of painterly Dos Amigos (Slave Boat), 1993...

... handmade paper boat cascades in Previously referred to locally in South Africa as and out of view. The paper streamers and boat the "Coon Carnival," these festive street proces• leave ominous trails of dye in the water as Searle sions that take place at the end of the year are now...

... below, the audience can barely see and Alayna Rasile. Glenn captivates the viewers the four drift boats that carry the Fox Family with song at the same time that the sound of Fiddlers, who play in the Métis tradition. As violins begins to waft from the small speakers they move up the Madison...

... one consents not to be a single I’ve been unable to take long- distance fl ights. And since being and attempts to be many beings at the same time. it’s eight and a half hours from Paris to Fort- de- France, I’m In other words, for me every diaspora is the passage from obliged to take the boat...

... their lives in search of a better life. In this stretch of ocean, boats often drop people off in the rela- tively shallow water close to the shore. Some of these people are pregnant women hoping to give birth on Spanish soil, thereby ensuring Spanish citizenship for their newborn child, even...

... imagination.7 Important Reports Before we turn our attention to Koraïchi and his artistic masterpiece, a few contextualizing sentences are warranted to impart some sense of the scale of migrants drowning, which happens almost daily with predictable frequency.8 News of sinking rafters and boats tell us...

... cables, and eight round speakers; dimensions variable; eight minutes each. © Zineb Sedira. All rights reserved, ARS, New York/DACS, London 2019 Kerman Nka 119 long distances in overcrowded, ill-equipped boats that stall and sink come to mind. Despite the rising rates of such deaths, and of African...

... of field he appears to remain in dimension of time, perhaps the time when the the same place, as if he is walking on the spot. hotel was built by the French in the 1930s. She too Sometimes, no matter how much we travel physi• gazes out at the sea, the boats arriving and depart• cally...

... old boats as sources for new sculptures. All he could find were fifteen and twenty-footers, which he consid• ered too big. At the same time, Cole, who had been working with irons for many years now, couldn't help but notice the similarity between the shapes of boats and irons. During...

...). These connections culminate toward the end with the plight of a group of Black and Brown refugees. Beleaguered and abused, there is a moment in which their female leader undergoes a supernatural transformation, bringing the human and nonhuman worlds into alignment. Finally, the boat is allowed entry...

..., suggesting a syn• Egyptian-style boats with prows shaped like the ergy between rider and animal, further expanded raised hood of the cobra. In Unearthed 4, the boat through the uniform treatment of skin and scari• carries a seated male and female pair, both with fication of both...

... and locates entangled sensibilities. At first glance, the installation looks like a dhow boat (traditional wooden boat) that one routinely sees on the coastline of Sharjah and, indeed, we find Ward has attempted to install a replica of the same structure. Dhows, or wooden sailing vessels, says...

... white sail.” This rescue he can do with- in color signals that Walcott is already re-creating out because he himself has already rescued Achille’s the image to fit his own vision. With the emphatic dismasted boat with the sail crumpled on the deck “my” of “My main man, my nigger,” Walcott’s floor...

... boat a large window that looks out on 125th Street, and talks about his pieces; he now draws them as well. Even those who work in new favorite artists: his friends Leonardo Drew and David Hammons, media such as Elke Krystufek, are moving between the forms...

... photograph of a West African Stones for Olivia, named after now looking beyond his backyard Bailey. As a tribute to his south• sculpture of a goat and a boat his daughter, is a more personal...

... to everyone took that as literal. But then you find out that that think about the idea of going to Alaska? was actually a setup scene. GN: I went to Alaska by myself when I was twenty- three. I BW: It becomes about performance and staging — went on the boats. In Prince Rupert, Canada, you can catch...