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... artist, Latifa Echakhch, who was raised in France and lives in Switzerland, represented Switzerland with Le Concert , a sculptural sound installation. Each of their multidisciplinary installations engages differently with the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity to challenge cultural stereotypes...

...Lisa E. Bloom Reconsidering Isaac Julien’s film True North (2004) in relation to my book Gender on Ice (1993) at this moment is a political and intellectual challenge, especially given that the recent resurgence of interest in the Arctic is not only about concern over global warming and the desire...

...Helen Langa Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 Two Antilynching Art Exhibitions: Politicized Viewpoints, Racial Perspectives, Gendered Constraints Helen Langa wo art exhibitions protesting lynch violence public awareness of the problem...

... paramount essay, "Beyond Visual GENDERED VISIONS: Pleasures," interrogates the notion THE ART OF GENDERED VISIONS...

... Negro” identity and singles out for particular concern the construction of Black womanhood circa 1921 atop a racialized and gendered foundation of “Egyptian” and “Ethiopian/Nubian” as contested discursive formations. Considering the manifold genealogies of Fuller’s sculpture and its politics...

... between local and global practices. the work.”14 Indeed, the very idea of the global contemporary Though his works are of the moment, Wosene emerges from the increased travel of ideas and dis- folds traces of memory into each of them, so they courses across national, cultural, gender, and class...

... to leave you hangin 13. Michael P. Jeffries, Thug Life, Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip Hop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 5. This moment “onstage” did not lay bare a col- 14. The particularity...

... Brigade, pp. 16-17. University, and a noted scholar of race, gender, cultur• 7 Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others," New York al history and the African diaspora. Times Magazine, May 23 2004: 24-29...

... that linger, clues that map a wider message and inspire new thinking. Brett M. Van Hoesen is an associate professor of art history and a faculty associate in the Gender, Race, and Identity Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Notes 1 John Akomfrah and Maurice Stierl, YouTube, Border/Talks...

... experience several axes of difference race, gender, class, sexu- ality, and ethnicity now overlapped . . . . The strategy of positive imagery now seemed inadequate; and that in turn precipitated a critique of docu- mentary realism and a decisive move towards the constructed image in effect, a new kind...

... of Center for Women s and Gender Studies and the the exhibitions of art. The photographic essay docu- African and African Diaspora Studies Program at ments the multimedia event involving Indigenous Florida International University in Miami. and local forms of music, dance, and song while centering...

... Hayes’s Symbionese Liberation Army, Screed #16, Patricia Hearst’s Second Tape (2003), and Coco Fusco’s a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert (2004) mobilize Black Power–era images in a formal as well as narrative challenge to conventions around race, gender, and sexuality. They also question the notion...

... and writing focus on the role of gender in the arts, especially in the emerging fi eld of contemporary Arab women artists...

... fashion to create a “West vs. rest” socialites to transgress racial hierarchies, gendered paradigm. They labeled the rest of the world subal- social norms, and spatial boundaries. tern, primitive, and devoid of fashion or taste, though In South Africa the Afro look also represented there had...

...Eddie Chambers Cherise Smith’s book Enacting Others brings together a disparate group of artists who “have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed.” Smith delivers a particularly engaging study because questions of identity...

.... The dandy represents a complicated dance between race, gender, power, and style. Primarily, dandyism as a fashion trend was born in Europe during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. More specifically, the dandy is mostly a British construct who came into being in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...

... the intersection of sex and race, gender and the role of women in collective organizing, the constitution of public versus private spaces, the extensibility of blackness as a political frame, and the ways that artistic practice provides models of engagement on each of those scores. Participants include Huey...

...Brett M. Van Hoesen Over a decade ago, the contemporary artist Mwangi Hutter, comprising Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter, merged names and biographies to become one artist, despite differences of gender, race, age, and cultural backgrounds. Based in Berlin and Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Nairobi...

... for an artist’s dedication to making both him and his works visible while simultaneously acting as a form of resistance against marginalization and oppression on the basis of both race and gender. Rodney’s practice is considered here within wider discourses dealing with a postcolonial reading of pain, aesthetics...