...Ekaterina Golovko This article explores two contemporary works (Kader Attia’s Open Your Eyes [2010] and Neïl Beloufa’s Kempinski [2011]), alongside Alain Resnais’s and Chris Marker’s 1953 classic short film Les statues meurent aussi ( The Statues Also Die ). The pieces belong to different contexts...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Ferguson riots, are however not simply visual...

...Bill Wright Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 CONTEMPORARY ART OF AFRICA which plagues the communities eruption." In one of the only direct EDITED...

...O. Donald Odita Copyright © 1997 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1997 ...

...Tumelo Mosaka Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 LIBERATED VOICES Contemporary Art...

...Derek Murray Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 ONE PLANET 11J } \ |1 J jJMi V H ji | hip hop' AND CONTEMPORARY Journal of Contemporary African Art Nikki S. Lee, The Hip Hop...

...Prita S. Meier Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 TERRITORIAL STRUGGLES: CAIRO AND CONTEMPORARY ART Hassan Khan, video still from Reading the Surface: 100 Faces, 6 Locations and 25 Questions, 2001. Courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel 3...

...Dina Ramadan Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 Dahab, has been anxious to insti• was one of the most engaging Maamoun creates a sense of REMOTE CONNECTION gate...

...Laurie Ann Farrell Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 ed that his curatorial vision for the Fang reliquary figure, which would cus• ISLAND THRESHOLDS exhibition...

...Joanna Grabski Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 THE DAK'ART BIENNALE EXHIBITING CONTEMPORARY ART AND GEOPOLITICS IN AFRICA Joanna Grabski ak'Art, Senegal's Biennial of Contempo• Framing...

..., in cultural exchanges between Angola and the larger world. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013 (Mis)seeing in/as Contemporary Art Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Launch of Icarus 13, 2007. Digital chromogenic print, 80 × 120 cm. All images courtesy Galleria Fonti...

...Jareh Das; Cindy Sissokho [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS BODY VESSEL CLAY: BLACK WOMEN, CERAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART TWO TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON JANUARY 29 APRIL 24, 2022 We have learned to defy our sense of time to shift, to work from and rebuild past cultural...

...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...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu This panel, convened from September 4 to October 10, 2009, is the second of a three-part series on issues in contemporary African art. The first panel, which appeared in issue 22/23 of Nka, focused on large-scale exhibitions, which have been instrumental in bringing the work...

...Salah M. Hassan The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet...

...Laurie Ann Farrell Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 LOOKING IX 9BOTH WAYS Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora If travel is searching...

...Anthea Bristowe Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 es but it is a tribute to him and Geers terised as a protest artist, an equally...

... Hammons Hauser and Wirth Crenshaw Dairy Mart contemporary global art Eurocentric conception of art ETHNIC ENVY and Other Aggressions in the Contemporary Global Art Complex Amelia Jones C urate, as many curatorial studies scholars have pointed out, is derived from the Latin cura, which means...

...Juliet Highet Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 dialogue of the present:1 ARAHI B WOMEi'j Jl i I...

... and labels rely on the tired tropes of the tribal and traditional to create fantastical pan-African architectural typologies, undermining genuine explorations of the local. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017 African architecture urban cities tradition contemporary...