... 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...

... 1990s, Musa combined these performances with ric with his own 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...

... 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...

..., symposium "Issues in funding was used to write a novel. Though provocative, the African Contemporary Art." Portland, ME, (February 2, 2000). works that surrounded the debate articulated concerns relating 10 William Pope.L, email to author, 10 December 2001...

... installation. Mary Evans Kara Walker silhouette British Empire slavery Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 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...

...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...

... the culture it inhabits to reveal its historical and present tensions, especially those arising from labor relationships. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010 Simon Gush, The Wolf’s Theme, 2009. French horns, music stands, scores of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf...

...• (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 young Doual'art also serves such practical functions 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...

...Sue Williamson Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 DAK'ART Moataz Nasr, The Water, Dak'Art 2002, video stills, Prix Revelation SUE WILLIAMSON n my hotel room in Dakar, at the time of my first reflective...

... Surrealists in Global Perspective conference in 2015, and the companion exhibition in 2016 in Cairo I organized with Hoor Al-Qasimi, When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938 1965), I received an email from Hisham Youssef, the son of Kamal Youssef, stating the following: I am contacting you...