..., migration, displacement, loss, and vulnerability provide a stark contrast to the hopeful possibility of cosmopolitanism. 84 Nka An Artist s Journey On Cosmopolitanism, Xenophobia, and Migration Berni Searle Berni Searle, Voyage, from the Seeking Refuge series, 2008. Archival pigment ink on cotton rag...

... letters made out of ture enclosed in an opaque Plexiglass box obscur- soap, accompanied by a smaller sculpture made of ing the features of the sculpture and preventing its clay, which reads, “Displaced.”8 This work offered identification completes the installation.9 When Holland a way...

..., as contemporaneity is influenced by history, memory, loss, absence, and displacement. The stories throughout relate to distinctions of power and class hierarchy, social injustice, mass migration, absence, and loss. In the spirit of Edward Said, topics of displacement and exile abound in works that are woven together...

... of colliding cultures and can hardly be understood outside the paradigm of itinerancy, mobility, and displacement. In addition to the forced migrations of the previous centuries, there have also been migrations driven by colonization. Today, millions of people of African origin are citizens of various...

... of displacement, by showing photographic representation of Ethiopian modernity structured around Muluneh’s invocation of her personal history and reference to Ethiopia’s many ethnic groups. For the purpose of clarifying the term “modern,” this assignation refers to the demarcation of time in Ethiopia’s history...

... in a landscape of complexity and contradiction, where one person’s protest is another’s art, is a delicate affair. The primary subject may be history, the riot, that which “incited” the riot, its visual aesthetic, or all these and more simultaneously. Does focus on the iconography of the riot displace...

... the black body in art has been displaced by its surrogate: a facialization of the black body as pure surface, the phallicization and epidermalization of the black subject as nothing more than his or her skin. To destabilize this body, these artists seek to get back to what Hortense Spillers describes...

..., this picture is grounded in the particularities of the displacement and destruction generated first by the Algerian War of Independence and then by the Algerian Civil War. Yet the degree to which Attia is expanding his focus beyond the specifics of this experience marks his investment in probing the claims...

... from film• makers in the African diaspora have celebrated the pan-dias- poric sense of longing and displacement as a search to locate...

... such as post-modernism. She is a con• temporary artist, but she resists contain• ment in categorical ghettos and episte- mological traps. In her life and in her work she has traversed liminal spaces, boundaries, and transformative bodies of water. She addresses displacement, exile, memory...

... and simultane- when reading it, because it perfectly shaped my ously hold on to important cultural and histori- sense of displacement stranger in a strange cal distinctions? How can I first decolonize my land, and all that but it also made me worry mind? that everything I would put into the world As I am...

...Emile Fallaux Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 MT71 IN PARIS MTERVIEW WITH ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO Emile Fallaux he sense of displacement took hold...

... still holds onto the specificity of its displaced context, projecting the ambience of the artist's studio. Moving away from a somatic, bodily...

... before moving forms, the way she reconfigures and displaces them in the on to yet another panel. Thus the grids act as a restraining various pictures invalidates our attempt to know the mind of device lest one wonders far afield, lost in the festival of forms the artist. I have often...

... a strategy of advent of the anti-colonial war in Algeria, Africans metonymic displacement in his confrontations with the became targets of French nationalist violence. Europe European tradition. In some of his work he referenced invented an immigrant problem and mapped...

... operates at a very different level: Enwezor explained, extraterritoriality was enacted it explores all that takes place on the stage set-up, firstly, by displacing its historical context in Kassel; both intentionally and unintentionally, by the cu- secondly, by moving outside the domain of the gal...

..., displacement, movement, labor, and one encounters Ward’s Nu Colossus. tourism as it attempts to suture to- Fashioned out of wood found on the Nari Ward’s Sub Mirage Lignum is a gether Ward’s native Jamaica and abandoned factory grounds in MASS large-­scale...

... bowed head Erickson Nka • 37 Video still from Stereoscope, 1999. Flashback to Nandi in death pose Felix attempts to engage the wider world. Through then intrigued by my personal displacement towards Felix’s consciousness...

... totally agree with what you not to displace the market model, right. And not to are saying, but I have the impression that local con- displace any of the good work that anybody’s doing text makes a difference here. It is not the same thing but instead to complement it. to talk about...

... proclaimed their splendor via architectural and actually happen. This fiction, which exists within artistic presentations for more than a century, that the realm of the possible, displaces another fiction, McQueen’s film was premiered. an exhibition that brings the Giardini to life every...