... conceptualists to and through conceptualist strategies prevalent in Africa and the West, Lagtaâ’s work was almost entirely situated in the linguistic, performative, new media, and mail art experiments characteristic of Eastern Europe. While the work of conceptual artists from the African continent identified...

... and Third Worlds, looking at vehicular transport as a metonymic element within consciousness. His Colours of Cotonou installation uses the device of the frame as a relatively traditional meditation on art and value, but Gaba goes beyond this in two ways: in his conscious play on the French word cadre...

... painting. what he calls "Mail Art." In regular correspondence with col• In Self Portrait as Saint Sebastian, 1999, Saint Sebastian of the leagues and friends, Musa uses mixed media on mailed Sunflower, 1999, and Family Album, 1998, Musa takes on the envelopes, transforming...

... by current social, political, and economic events, is using his work to respond to the historical and contemporary impacts, both positive and negative, of technology to the lives and bodies of those on the African continent as well as the wider environment. The works of art that he creates refer directly...

... me. Gallery in Cape Town and at the Durban Art Gal- lery.1 Although he has been marginalized and gen- Louis Khehla Maqhubela, erally neglected, his name is significant in the his- recalling his early youth in an e-mail to the author...

... status of the white male in postapartheid South Africa. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011 Paul Emmanuel’s Transitions The White South African Male in Process...

... installation. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 Mary Evans Kara Walker silhouette British Empire slavery PAPER WEIGHT History’s Legacy in the Work of MARY EVANS Monique Kerman rtist Mary Evans has been working in cut...

.... 5. E-mail interview with Poynton. into this tableau directly behind Ilsa, figure is breaking down, the boy con- 6. Deborah Poynton, South African Art, reinforcing the impression of energy necting his Lego blocks is construct- 1850–Now (Cape Town: Stevenson, 2004), flowing between...

... Breitz: Multiple Exposure (exhibition cat- nal of Social Philosophy 41, no. 3 (2010): 323 – 42. alogue) (Barcelona: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y 25. Mvuselelo Ngcoya, “Vice of White Silence,” Mail & Guard- León, 2007), 1. ian, October 11, 2011...

... to elicit comparisons to woven cloth, chain mail, mosaics, and so on. Anatsui’s own invitation of such semiotic fluidity is considered in light of his work’s titles. The “meaning” of these recent pieces is to be found in two dimensions: the comparative resonances they set up in the viewer’s mind...

.../ LACMA/Art Resources, New York 22 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring 2012 ment card, which showed Stinson posing in his postal uniform in the doorway of his mail truck. Bob...

... 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...

.... CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART 20. Ibid. 21. Lovell, e-mail communication with the author, September 2009. 22. Ibid. 23. Lovell, interview with the author. 24. Lovell, e-mail communication with the author, September 2009. 25. Linda Kim, “Distant Relations: Identity and Estrangement...

..., Cape Town Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 76 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2010-011  © 2010 by Nka Publications Refracting Surfaces...

...• (2007) joined the Department of Nineteenth Century, ity of the social canvas. Textiles and the way they Modern and Contemporary art. are used hold these mutations as DNA hold the 12 Atta Kwami to Lydie Diakhate, e-mail...

... for the artists Cameroonian artists. This special engagement with art, in for mail, telephones and e-mail. workshops and exhibitions featuring German and Cameroonian artists living abroad often have the privilege Cameroonian artists, is now being carried on by Andrea...

...W. Ian Bourland This article examines two recent projects by the Brooklyn-based artist Brendan Fernandes at the Guggenheim Museum and Art in General. It argues that Fernandes’s practice is important because it shows the language-power relations by which cultural identification is produced...

... writes to me in an e-mail of July 5, 2000, "have only the summary fragments which I Moira Roth is the Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills have not enlarged upon as of yet...

...Peju Layiwola The vibrancy of contemporary art in Nigeria is determined by the great output from both indigenous Nigerian-based artists and others, from the diaspora. However, scholarly emphasis has been paid to the artistic trajectory of home-based artists. An increasing influx of artists...

...• A similar rupture occurred with the advent of 8-Wka journal of Contemporary African Art the Studio Museum in Harlem's 2001 Freestyle for the exhibition, this piece traveled to everyone exhibition. Instead of a free-flowing discourse on the Society's mailing list, and beyond...