...Annabelle Mu'azu Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 TAPPING INTO THE KNOWN CHRISTOPHER & OBIAGELI OKIGBO The Brunei Gallery April 12 - June 23, 2007 As I was preparing...

... to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas s dynamic potential makes it primed to enact continuous layers of diasporic experience and Pan-Africanist thought to reflect this new environment. Rebecca Wolff is an assistant professor of art ­history at Christopher Newport University in ­Virginia. Notes 1 See Tobias Wofford...

...Erica Moiah James Critiques of anachronism have been used to dismiss art made in the Caribbean since the arrival of Christopher Columbus. This article argues that in order to render Caribbean art in the critical imagination, one must first decolonize notions of time foundational to the discipline...

... in which the black female body in particular has been represented. Christopher Cozier describes the genre of Caribbean portraiture produced against the background of a long history of colonized representation as “a visual territory not exclusively of our own making.” This article presents a number...

..., and to the poet as a weaver of words. Poet Christopher Okigbo One striking feature ofthe remains one of Africa's greatest...

.... Christophe De Jaeger, curator of Tamagni’s Gentlemen of Bacongo docu- photographers who are not interested in Haute Africa, says: ments the lives of a different kind of African fashion per se but who choose...

... this idea felt tered about the existence of the “Negro” artist at what we had was so important that we should con- their weekly meetings, where they attempted to tinue. And finally we got our own studio and meeting support one another artistically and emotionally. place on Christopher Street...

... we got our own studio and a meeting place on Christopher Street [in Greenwich Village]. These meetings and discussing the identity of the Negro, what a Negro artist is or if there even is such a thing, all of these pro-­and-­con...

.... The complicated story of the main protagonist, Christophe Soglo, filmed in both Vietnam and in Benin, is given geographic sense by Mora- Kpai’s cuts to the interviewees’ surroundings without interruption by a forced ref- erence to location. Whereas many documentaries suffer from segmenta- tion...

..., ists, art organizers, critics, and curators. Okwui s argumentative and agreeable. Inspired. Respectful. reflections opened the book, alongside a wonder- He would stress how these conversations continued ful photo of him with Prince Charles, Christopher long after the biennale, with Okwui inviting him...

.... that this is obviously not a black beauty European collectors are influential As in Trinidad, living and working with a wicker basket on her head or a within the Trinidad art scene, often in Kingston, Jamaica as a contempo- Rkjhfc Christopher Cozier, Pott...

... objects, home furnishings, and wood. © Tate Photography for a­ rtists. ­Christopher Cozier, who runs the Alice Yard residency program in Port of Spain and who was approached by the cura­torial team when they visited Trinidad on a research trip, questions how necessary the inclusion of these artists...

.... With some research on her part, she learned that in the Weimar period, a bar for homosexuals was located precisely at this site. In Christopher Isher- wood’s memoir...

... performances, raine O’Grady, Ebony G.Patterson, and tévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke, Lor- Christophe Chassol,Nicolás DumitEs- circuit. John Beadle, CharlesCampbell, points throughout itstransnational • 40...

... in Contemporary African Photography" African Arts 40, no. 1 ernist photographic histories documented by Christopher (Spring 2007): p. 92. Pinney in South Asia, Stephen Sprague in Nigeria, and Mary...

... David Bailey once-popular glass-bottomed boat and Dave Smith, and the Trinidadians could. Thompson situates these devel• Christopher Cozier, Che Lovelace, and opments in Dean MacCannell's theory Irenee Shaw. Cozier's, Shaw's, and about tourists...

... Ibadan or Osogbo. Mbari was a club, jointly founded by Wole Soyinka, Beier, Christopher Okigbo, John Pepper Clark, and Ezekiel Mphahlele. Located in Ibadan s Dugbe Market, the site of the Mbari Club was an old Lebanese restaurant converted into an open-air performance venue, an art gallery, a library...

... is the recent piece, The Unnatural Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: with the Natural History of the Herbs and Movement of Blackness (2006).8 As though oozing black, this globe is completely enveloped by hang• Trees, Four-Tooted Beasts...

... to his other plays: we would never again be able to see him, or to The Tragedy of King Christophe and A Season in the touch him. Congo, which examine the implacable distortions that often follow struggles for decolonization and Edouard Glissant is Distinguished Professor...

... the pleasure of quoting the end of truly the unknown: no shore to their right, no shore to their that broadcast, where I said that Christopher Columbus had left. And nothing in front of them — the complete unknown. left for what was called the New World and I’m the one who The fi rst chapter of my book...