... May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10435022 © 2023 by Nka Publications Diasporic Bodies The Video Art of Irineu Destourelles Ana Nolasco I rineu Destourelles is part of the Cape Verdean diaspora. Born in 1974 in Cape Verde, he lived in Lisbon from the age of four years. Later, he studied at the Willem de...

... propose that this collusion between African art history and American art can be conceived of as feedback: a resonant discursive loop that connects American art and African art, diasporic art production and its interpretation, and identity production and recognition. By exploring the work of contemporary...

... Modernisms, ed. Kobena Mercer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 124 45. 6 Huey Copeland, Tending-toward-Blackness, October, no. 156 (May 1, 2016): 141 44, httpsdoi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00249. Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an Associate professor of Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Departments...

... on, twentieth-century American, European, and black diasporic art and culture. It seeks to contextualize as well as critique a select sampling of visual representations and performative operations of this enigmatic African, who conscientiously exploited the interests and conceits of modernism and primitivism...

... imaginaries of identified what he saw as a "new kind of critical which Enwezor speaks from the previously individuality" in the works of African diasporic advanced counterdiscourses of anti-imperialism 36* IMka Journal of Contemporary African Art that Achille Mbembe rightly...

... and communal systems, a distorted signifier of “authentic” diasporic art forms like jazz and carnival for touristic economies, and a futurological imaginary that can reclaim both physical and psychic autonomy through reengagement with the city’s population on its own visual and sonic terms. mak1018...

..., regardless of geographic locale. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 AfriCOBRA Black Arts movement Black Nationalism Chicago riot African diaspora VULNERABLE TO VIOLENCE JEFF DONALDSON’S ALA SHANGO and the Erasure of Diasporic Difference Nicholas Miller...

.... Jordana Moore Saggese. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014 Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 Jean-Michel Basquiat Jordana Moore Sagesse contemporary art African American art diasporic art READING BASQUIAT: EXPLORING AMBIVALENCE...

... of the transatlantic trade as fundamental to European art history. Black agency over and above white atrocity ultimately remains the defining feature of his oeuvre. Donkor does justice to missing histories of African diasporic radicalism and resistance by extrapolating the lived realities of black subjects, enslaved...

...- cupied a privileged place in diasporic art and criti- cism, attending as it does to states of melancholia, the lingering trauma of past violence, and the need, in many contexts, to confront open wounds.32 But Akomfrah is circumspect on this point. He doesn t believe in ghosts per se, but proposes some...

... Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 precipitous time for Black diasporic life in the postwar era. In the United States, images of civil rights resistance to Jim Crow brutality were more than ever routinely beamed into American homes. Across Africa, the formative stages...

... to ness" in a period when it "became a cul• Modernism. Powell's book endeavors to tural lightening rod" for the larger so• present an overview of diasporal art...

... affair after all. move in and out of the continent and reside mostly in standing of contemporary African diasporic art and cultural the purpose of bringing home aspects of the outside world Western metropolises. Their success, especially in the inter - labor...

... realities of cen• raphy of African Diasporic art in gener• of this visual form on Walker's produc• sorship, the potential disfavor of the al. Such a critical trajectory could tion—in light of its historical misuse black community, and the complexities...

...Salah M. Hassan Over the span of more than fifty years, the Sudanese American and Chicago-based artist Amir Nour has created sculptures that reflect his remarkable ability to integrate methods, techniques, forms, and ideas that draw from his diverse experiences as a diasporic person. Nour was born...

... is displayed and viewed changes with each generation, constantly allowing young diasporic innovators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean to add their own ideas about reinvention and self-representation. Paris, an internationally key and highly influential Western space in all things concerning...

... tradition and a critique of mainstream performance art history, this article starts in Harlem before taking the reader on a sweeping journey that calls at Chicago and Houston and ends in New Orleans. A cursory introduction to African diasporic public ceremonial culture, the article looks to carnival...

... by different diasporic art. Yet his braggadocio style, attention to detail, and expressions of black identity. Hendricks’s collapse intense color fields engage all these movements.15 of the aesthetic relationship between surface/depth His photographic accuracy and sensitivity to color...

...), African diasporic modernist imagination, despite Kwabena Ampofo-­Anti (b. 1949), and Victor Ekpuk a complicated history of differential investment by Journal of Contemporary African Art • 33 • Fall 2013 56 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2352812  © 2014 by Nka Publications...

... at the Studio Museum Freestyle (2001) and Frequency (2005) that launched the careers of a generation of African American and African diasporic artists into the international arena and the global art market. These exhibitions not only illustrated the individuality and complexity of the works produced by this new...