...Olu Oguibe Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 DLU DGUIBE DN PEPDN DSDRID'S NEW INSTALLATION n an article by Holland Cotter in the New York Times in 1995, material environment and the resonance of images, he...

... Renate Albertsen- Installation Marton. Although it was meant to be a sculptors 'parade', the symposium accommodated Goethe-lnstitut, painters...

... Publications Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American artist Note known for her work in sculpture, collage-painting, video, installation, and performance. 1 Audre Lord, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, in Sister Outsider (Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 1984), 41. Mutu Nka 147 ...

...) and completed an installation for All the World s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 Nka 159 DOI 10.1215/10757163-8971412 © 2021 by Nka Publications ...

...Laurel Jean Fredrickson This article explores the immersive audio-visual and sculptural art installations in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) of three transnational contemporary women artists with familial ties to former colonies and protectorates. The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, MBE...

...Brett M. Van Hoesen This article provides a review of the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia’s solo exhibition, Sacrifice and Harmony , a selection of twenty-nine works of installation, video, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, hosted by the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, Germany...

...Joanna Grabski This article focuses on Viyé Diba’s Tout Se Sait (2014), a mixed-media installation that framed and evoked the experience of Dakar’s streets. Exhibited at the Koba Club in downtown Dakar during the Dak’Art Biennale 2014, this proposition expanded on themes, approaches, and materials...

...Holiday Powers “Those Who Will Join Us” reviews Bouchra Khalili’s multimedia installation The Circle (2023) in the context of Sharjah Biennial 15. The Circle was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and won one of the biennial prizes, and suggests larger questions about what it means...

... of the exhibition as an opera in four acts about our world now, in the past, and in the future. Kasbah is an installation of a shantytown made with sheet iron and plastic, showing the town from above: the roofs spread over a considerable area, but always on the ground, so that visitors can walk over them. Another...

...Nicole J. Caruth In April 2009 Kira Lynn Harris debuted a new body of work in a solo presentation at CUE Art Foundation in New York. This article examines two site-specific installations in that exhibition: 2001, Mirror , which references Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey , and Prism...

...Kim Bobier In Bound to Appear Huey Copeland traces the late 1980s and early 1990s resurgence of aesthetic and intellectual endeavors that broached the transatlantic slave trade. Copeland’s inquiry rests on four installations from 1991 to 1993 by Renée Green, Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, and Fred...

...Carol Boram-Hays Wasswa Donald Augustine a.k.a., Waswad (b. 1984), is a reanimator—taking materials derived from once living organisms and breathing new life into them through the creation of sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works. He is among a number of artists working around...

...Kanitra Fletcher How do you see blackness? What does it look like? Can it be shown? In seeming response to such uncertainties, artists Renée Green, Satch Hoyt, and Sheila Pree Bright forgo representation of the black body altogether. In installation and photographic works— Seen (1990), Say It Loud...

...Ana Nolasco The author proposes an analysis of the ways in which the memory and heritage of colonialism are broken down and critically appraised through artistic speech and the device of a poetic journey in the audiovisual installations of the Cape Verdean artist César Schofield Cardoso. Her...

...Kevin Tervala Trauma abounds in Barthélémy Toguo’s Heart Beat . From the torture of captives at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to the massacre of students at Virginia Tech in the United States, the Cameroonian artist’s 2008 installation powerfully visualizes contemporary scenes of human suffering from...

... but also redefined the exhibition, before its opening in Kassel, by conceiving it as a final installment of several “platforms” staged worldwide. His were strategic, paradigmatic interventions engineered to globalize the art world, and they effectively amounted to acts of art-historical decolonization...

... installment of Chahine’s autobiographical film quartet, which he intermittently drew over the course of his thirty-year career, indulges a complex exposé of Chahine the man, the artist, and the political activist. It also draws on mostly imagined, and partly real, episodes in the filmmaker’s life...

... and connected. By examining the exhibition space where they displayed their works, I attempt to address the historical entanglements and contestations of exhibition sites to the works they present and how meanings are deployed to compose shared experiences. The works of Ward, Salcedo, and Mahama are installed...