...Gerhard Schoeman This essay explores the photographer Roger Ballen’s series Boarding House in terms of the creature Odradek in Franz Kafka’s short story “Troubles of a Householder” and in terms of melancholia. Rather than mark identity and sense, the traces, traits , contours, orli , and splendores...

... has moved into the dilapidated houses, shel- António Ole, Township Wall, 2004. Africa Remix, Museum tered from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, July 24–November 7, 2004. Wood, corrugated iron, plastic, iron, glass, 360 × 960 cm with its population of 6 million...

... We shall speak of a fully “perspectival” view of space Vries [lived in] the 1600s.10 not when mere isolated objects, such as houses or furniture, are represented...

... was organizing an Museum in Harlem and founding director emeritus exhibition called Impact Africa. It was a collabora- of Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta. tion with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Museum, the Metropolitan, Note and the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition...

..., but ended up being well received in many Afri- can film festivals, and I suddenly became known as a film- SW: The video takes us on a journey to your grandfather’s maker rather than a video artist. It transcends traditional house in Addis Ababa and to various places around Ethio- categories of film...

... uniform and joined the house staff in the residency program: he performed housekeeping activities such as cleaning and gardening; he cooked for the house staff and his coworkers every day throughout the ten-day period; and he gave a fifteen-minute talk, sharing his perspective on issues of race class...

...Benjamin Tiven This article engages the German architect Ernst May and the complex legacies of his work in colonial Kenya from 1933 to 1953. Tiven examines three structures and parses their political, aesthetic, and biographical dimensions: one proposed, but never built (the Native House...

...Benjamin Tiven This article engages the German architect Ernst May and the complex legacies of his work in colonial Kenya from 1933 to 1953. Tiven examines three structures and parses their political, aesthetic, and biographical dimensions: one proposed, but never built (the Native House...

...Pamela Newkirk A century after Ota Benga was exhibited in the Bronx Zoo Monkey House, the episode has been widely distorted by omission, half-truths, or outright deception. Not only has Benga’s captor, the self-described American explorer Samuel Verner, been widely depicted as his friend and savior...

... to refugees, and in the controversy around the site of the Humboldt Forum and the colonial art it is meant to house. Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 202072 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308198 © 2020 by Nka Publications Fatima El-Tayeb H ow we remember, as individuals and as col-lectives, depends...

... and periods. Resnais’s and Marker’s film coincided with the emergence of anticolonial culture and consciousness, which hinged on the African self-narrative and activist movements connected to the Parisian publishing house Présence Africaine . Attia’s work situates us in an indefinite period between World War...

...Connie Winston Founded in 1972, the Hatch-Billops Collection houses an extensive archive of African American memorabilia and exists as a direct result of the 1965 “open admissions” policy at the City College of New York, where James Hatch was teaching theater history. Today the collection’s mission...

..., including corporations. While examining the role of legal entities, Gates also posits the necessity for temporary and informal collectives, the gatherings that convene and dissolve around caring for places, things, and people. Referencing the archives housed at his Dorchester Projects, Gates discusses...

... of departure. The act of collecting can be interpreted as a deep structural expression in Gates’s Dorchester Projects and Black Cinema House, which involve various modes of collecting and collectivizing. Such activities may expose “soft collectivities,” which are informally construed, highly representational...

... (1992), Emigracdo to let the non-Western voice be heard in her brack• (1994), and Case Study House #21 (2001)—pro• eting and mise-en-abime of the modernist project. vide powerful reconfigurations of the modernist Insofar as Angela draws some of her inspiration subject/object...

... of the Igbo too clinical and obtrusive in the Quiet, wooded part of the city close to into a contemporary idiom. He however concentrated on the lyrical the old, grand, Fischmarkt. He constructed the House of the Four Qualities of the predominantly linear body art form...

... New Asylum Institutions, 2016, curated by CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics at Trampoline House, Copenhagen. © CAMP. Photo: Britta Thomsen offered a vision of the (art) world as profoundly We turn to Enwezor for theoretical support in entangled and plurivocal? Furthermore, how has...

... under the leadership of Prussian noblemen, officers, displayed in the lower hall of South Africa House. and university professors in Berlin. The education Seventy-­two years after that earlier one-­man and training that the missionaries underwent were show, and fifty-­one years since...

... the middle-aged Loos. the material evidence of her racial embodiment, it Based on a rather superficial acquaintance, Loos is in fact a remarkably layered construct. In popu- designed a house for her. The house was never built, lar cultural memory her skin is often discursively but the design remains...

... of reform. And, lit by a full moon, the mountain 70 cm. Courtesy the artist. © Mary Wafer stands as stolid witness. Gateway is equally particular and expansive in its critique, directed chiefly at the controversial low- cost housing development in Cape Town known...