... Philip Amonoo, CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS:BEYOND ABJECTION interests were represented, although textile including this writer. The rank of sculptors JUNE KELLY GALLERY work was conspicuously absent. Though the was represented by Chris Afuba, Frank...

... and Lagos. In addition to "deterri- ventional limits of the discipline. This was especially evident in torializing" the exhibition, Mr. Enwezor questioned "universaliz• the 100 Days-100 Guests lectures/events in which artists, critics ing conceptions of cultural and artistic...

... American community in ways that reflected and enacted larger societal institutional and political conceptions. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 COLLABORATIVE IMPROVISATION AS CRITICAL PEDAGOGY Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34...

... that the video is the product of volitional collaboration and negotiation between Breitz and the cast of Generations . Consequently, the piece avoids some of the critical shortcomings occasionally associated with her earlier work and embodies, in a provocative and parallel sense, Frantz Fanon’s emphasis...

... and artists the replaced have movement the for advocated who critics those of ideas the if as Italmost is artists. its to than champions movement’s...

... directors of the Aspassio Haronitaki, Serie: Les Hybrides. 96 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art highly critical: the French still don't get...

... the passe-partout character of such trans-cultural-avant-garde artists as Anatsui.9 This notion has many precedents, and it echoes into varied critical engagements with the concept(s) of the global contemporary, especially those more narrowly focused on African or African-diasporic produc- tion...

... a must we find them before too late. 3 You did what you thought was your destiny: You gave away your love, and left in silence, without the time to understand who you really are. Cambridge, MA, 2020 * After W. H. Auden s Funeral Blues Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator living in New York City...

... in writing Surrealism in Egypt and a selective account of and his rebuttal to certain critics of his book. The author concludes by reiterating the importance of this era and the activities of the Art and Liberty group and by recommending that another, deeply researched book be published to surpass Surrealism...

...Hisham Geshta; Dina Hussein Author Hisham Geshta, literary and art critic and editor of Al Kitaba Al Ukhra ( Other Writing ), Cairo, Egypt, reminisces about his meeting and long-term relationship with writer and activist Anwar Kamel and their united efforts to publish established and emerging...

... Egyptian at heart. The author, a novelist, poet, and critic himself, takes each of these writers and individually explores the aesthetics and impact of their work to ultimately consider the question: Is what they wrote considered Egyptian literature, or does it remain Francophone and, thus, French...

... of imaginative work that has the potential to elevate spectators beyond the discourses binding time to linear metaphors. What the work of Frazier reveals, as well as several of the artists that Smith brings critical attention to, are the ways in which the photograph at once instantiates and activates complex...

... of silence also materialize, as if the jerba s are telling the viewer that there are histories and stories one cannot comprehend. Abebe’s critical engagement through these works responds to the changing pressures of time and place, particularly the ambiguities of modern citizenship in the Ethiopian state...

... during the mid-1980s there were certainly many Eddie Chambers is a curator and writer of art other such tragedies that spoke of a somewhat frac- criticism. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved tious or ill-at-ease Black British presence, the 1985 in the visual arts, particularly the practice...

... of art of graffiti and the ways in which, in cities such as criticism. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved Cairo, the graffiti artist articulates and documents in the visual arts, particularly the practice of Black social upheaval. Her images reveal the extent to British artists. He is also...

... was going introduced me to Kamoinge at an early age—nineteen. to act, so they had me direct Miles from the storyboards. That was 1963. Kamoinge means a group of people acting So I directed Miles on what to do—which was pretty easy together. We talked a lot about and criticized photographs...

... daguerreotype, the first successful photographic would also fulfill a pornographic function under the process, to an enthusiastic crowd of its membership. guise of science. In the 1850s, in a speech titled “The Negro as Man,” The same illogic also informed a social order in Douglass spoke critically about...

... Revolution, wowed audiences and critics alike. SHINE The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice...