... between two of the most gifted and soulful thinkers of the black condition. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017 Miles Davis Stuart McPhail Hall jazz cultural studies the black experience KIND OF MILES The Many Moods of STUART HALL...

... the legacy of racism in small and big ways in South Africa. He was at the center of critical debates about race and representation. While there are all kinds of practical guidelines for how to talk about racism within the larger culture, we still do not have one for talking about racial inequality and racism...

..., is also “a kind of intimate, intersubjective, interrelational obligation,” Enwezor never presumed his role as positionality to be sovereign. The first half of the article introduces the concept of hospitality and sets up Enwezor’s curatorial premise of IP . The second half mobilizes his curatorial...

... people in North America aligns with many of Okwui Enwezor’s groundbreaking initiatives around the world. This assemblage of images, poetry, and first-person narratives is an example of the kind of practice in dialogue with the legacy of Enwezor’s decolonial actions and innovative use of curatorial...

... to refuse the kind of willful forgetting and violent obfuscating that insists upon rendering invisible or fungible Black people who have vitalized communities like Braddock for generations. imwooden@stanford.edu © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 LaToya Ruby Frazier Grandma Ruby documentary...

... drawn from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), which similarly fostered connection between distant and foreign bodies. This article explores the work’s confrontation of New Orleans as a historic space recovering from the traumatic devastation of the built environment...

... for Concrete Pre-manufacture); one still inhabited today (the Delamere Flats); and one demolished ca. 2005 (the Oceanic Hotel). The article explores May’s impulse for gardening as a kind of anti-architecture and crosses his narrative with those of two other architect-horticulturalists: Erica Mann, a Jewish...

... for Concrete Pre-manufacture); one still inhabited today (the Delamere Flats); and one demolished ca. 2005 (the Oceanic Hotel). The article explores May’s impulse for gardening as a kind of anti-architecture and crosses his narrative with those of two other architect-horticulturalists: Erica Mann, a Jewish...

... devastated Detroit and Newark, NJ, she painted Die expressly for the show. The wall-size canvas depicts an interracial cast of clean-cut antagonists trying to kill one another. Although the painting represented the kind of large-scale, politically motivated figuration that had been out of favor since...

...Shantrelle P. Lewis The first comprehensive exhibition of contemporary global black dandyism of its kind, The Dandy Lion Project was born in November 2010 with the exhibition titled Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculinity . This exhibition was a discussion about the refashioning...

.... Conversely, Daniele Tamagni’s Gentlemen of Bacongo documents the lives of a different kind of elite, the sapeurs of Congo-Brazzaville, whose devotion to European bespoke suits creates a stark contrast to their modest day-to-day reality. These and other participating artists including Viviane Sassen, Zanele...

... caps into a new kind of luxury, Anatsui presents the viewer with an impressive visual coup. Part of the sensation of luxurious beauty is due to the viewer’s awareness of the intensive manual labor that went into making the works. The review also examines the tendency of Anatsui’s recent sculpture...

... at many kinds of art. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011...

... on which this issue is focused. formed because you needed that kind of solidarity, that kind of shared sense of purpose, the sense that power comes through interaction. There was this Miklos Gosztonyi: My...

..., Thomas Lax, Rick Lowe, and Claire Tancons This question-and-answer session represents part and, more generally, about the kind of interiority three of three sessions that took place at the confer- that capital has allowed for you. For those of us who ence on which this issue is focused...

... The following conversation between Kodwo Eshun and Naomi Beckwith: Thank you so much, Anjali and Kodwo. Anjali Sagar of The Otolith Group and Naomi Beckwith took That was an incredible recitation. We initially expected a place after The Otolith Group’s preceding performance at the kind of exegesis on your...

.... This influenced my own kind of psychic and imaginative process. For Thomas Allen Harris: I think it has to do with my identity and percep• instance, I remember my grandfather telling me that his mother's mater• tion, and a certain sense of affiliation and affinity, seeing a family based nal grandfather...

...- mined by those earlier discourses. You have to break out, as George E. Lewis: Well, I wasn’t talking about jazz bands; a part of self-­determination, and you have to rename your- I was talking about improvisation, collectivity, and mainly self. So renaming themselves was a kind of critical aspect...

..., particularly the about practicing. It was about doing the things that you love ways in which we might conceive of collectivity as exceed- over and over again and looking for a miracle, looking for ing the human and including new kinds of configurations of new ideas, and just being present with people...

... critical access to the kind of work that artists are doing in terms of African American representation. At the same time, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art was convened due to the lack of representation and misrepresentation of what constitutes African art. For far too long, people who have...