...W. Ian Bourland This article briefly reviews Wangechi Mutu’s recent show Hunt Bury Flee , held at the end of 2010 at Gladstone Gallery in New York. The author locates the strength of the work and analyzes it through the lens of surrealist practices and recent work by other contemporary African...

... has been taken up as another, if not interrogation course, which includes their being th e preeminent, medium of war. kidnapped , str ip-searched, and interrogated over By steadfastly refusing to cater to th e precious, several days), or her gallery exhibitio n, Buried Pig witty, high- tech...

... alive" re• refugee camps, the destruction of cities. He then calls the time when the appearance of one's name "buried" each of these images in a black linen )aar has described Real Pictures as a "ceme• on the genocidaire's lists meant instant death. It box. On the top of each box, he had...

... rather entomb than inQuire, bury with the military to form a provisional government, the EPRP than be curious and rather be just sad and melancholic to his/her believed in contracting power through the armed struggle. loss. The wherefore...

... of the effort. But it is useful to work present. In their attempts to uncover the silence and through the meanings of the earlier hostility, as they fear that buried the history of violence in Southern can be instructive about the complex modalities sur• communities...

... and leaving are not rights, but the inevitable conditions of being. So I m not going to ask the world to stop all clocks. I will not give the dog a juicy bone to prevent her from barking. I m not going to stop the music or muffle the drums.* You are already buried, and I come again to conspire with you. 2...

... understanding of psychological That's where we buried Mom, we get raised. artwork that will engage historic balance is important. had her casket open right...

... of this violence, he is forms of inscription at the original site have been physically forced to penetrate into the work, do it vio- leveled in the copies, as has the temporal di erence lence, hence in a way repeat what has been buried between the various actions leaving the traces. In in deepest memory. He...

... in an in it, as if they are buried alive. teaches at Boston College. 114-Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art ...

... -41 example, one white man told her, "This lynching is and Bitter Crop: The Spectacle of Torture," Open Democracy. like a pile of dog crap. The best thing to do is bury it October 11, 2004. Available online. See also Carby's essay in and go on." To bury lynching...

... to the past and to other to take place in Johannesburg in 1995 and 1997. places. Twenty years later, the resulting cracks and crevices on the biennale and the nation have been filled or Furthermore, Trade Routes not only challenged buried, but the traces and fissures of this meeting the status of the existing...

...- waar’s vision of Senegalese self-­determination by ily who, in accordance with Muslim traditions, rejecting the foreign aid that helps sustain neocolo- have buried him quickly, the Christians resolve to nial dictators. By the film’s end, the body has evolved retrieve the remains...

... in the Venda region. The he is running from the law. Ibid. this project that include women artist "buried" himself inside...

... unfolding in Sedira s video instal- lation Floating Coffins capture close-ups of rusted steel wreckage, twisted lines, buried anchors, sand drifts, and birds wheeling above them. The medium is the moving image, simultaneously playing as frag- ments on fourteen different screens. A few figures appear...

... to those cemeteries, locals are not welcoming to break this rule given land scarcity and especially when there are so many bodies to bury. It is not just the issue of the cemetery but also that of a morgue. Local morgues often refuse to take in migrant bodies, given they are already burdened with local...

... important, though, is the stress Fusco lays on the tensions that underlie and remain buried beneath...

..., with Ofili has committed to change—­but not, perhaps, an image of Stephen Lawrence buried deep inside. to what he is changing into. As well as adding a three-­dimensional twist to his Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 42 • Nka DOI 10.1215...

.... The overlapping of successive African sketchbooks: a group of drawings that may planes activates the ground, revealing an image that provide a link between the artist and the musical hovers in a different spatial level. What appears to be instrument depicted in the photo. “half-buried” becomes...

... conformity to pictorial type. That she ing structure (sandwiched on the page, out what happened to their son, locate his was designated a terrorist in the first between covers, in drawers and fingers bodily remains, and bury the few locks of his place points to the looseness by which and hands...

... criminal; modernity, as well as the private and her son’s body and buries him her- now the mother becomes cold toward public spheres.3 self, despite the fact that women are him. She agrees to care for the child, In an interview Djamila Sahraoui ex- excluded from funeral rites in Islam...