... 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...

...Coco Fusco Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 THE THAT WERE NOTOURS BLACK PERFORMERS, BLACK PE RFORMANGE...

...Soraya Murray; Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ON ART AND CONTAMINATION Performing Authenticity in Global Art Practices Soraya Murray & Derek Conrad Murray ith the gradual shift of Western art- cal...

... in collaboration with local Ethiopian welders. The authors also bring Wosene’s work into conversation with some of the broader artistic movements that have used script “against itself.” Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Visual Poetry/ Performing Script The Art of Wosene...

..., and more recently in Berlin, Germany where he cur• rently lives, Rhode has been using the wall as a pri• mary medium for his ephemeral drawings and witty perform• ances. Standing as a support to his charcoal drawings, the wall also functions as a backdrop against which to stage...

... You See the Stars. In the show, hosted by the Chicago gallery FLXST Contemporary, Johnson presents fifteen of his most recent paintings accompanied by his first public performance piece Mother makes man. As he has done in previous 96 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI...

... 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 ...

... of modern citizenship in the Ethiopian state. United Arab Emirates, and an adjunct professor at the ­College of Performing and Visual Arts at Addis ­Ababa University. Notes 1 Elizabeth W. Giorgis, Modernist Art in Ethiopia (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019), 280. 2 Giorgis, Modernist Art, 248. 3 Dawit...

... tradition and a critique of mainstream performance art history, this article starts in Harlem before taking the reader on a sweeping journey that calls at Chicago and Houston and ends in New Orleans. A cursory introduction to African diasporic public ceremonial culture, the article looks to carnival...

... That, 2012. Digital photograph documenting performance. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Adrian Richards 118 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 both colonial and contemporary bodies within a Afro-Caribbean women in the artist’s own self- field of trade commodities...

...Berni Searle The author/artist provides twenty images from three of her performance and video series: Home and Away (2003), Seeking Refuge (2008), and Mute (2008), complementing them with descriptions of the creative process and the collective experiences the images depict. Themes of identity...

... in arranging discussions and performances at the British Museum, where he was a curator, publishing extracts of Leo’s work whenever the opportunity arose. Asemota occupies a unique place in what is loosely described as “contemporary African art,” not only because of the scale and timespan of The Ens Project...

... with American minimalism and Angolan contemporary artistic practice, which allow for a more thorough understanding of his photography as spatial, material, quasi-sculptural, and performative. Chagas’s work defies geographical, cultural, art historical, and artistic categorizations. While indeed departing from...

...Jean-Ulrick Désert The work of Jean-Ulrick Désert, a Haitian-born artist currently based in Berlin, Germany, has often used the image of the body, most notably in his earlier performative works such as Negerhosen2000, where members of the public were allowed to submit portraits of the artist...

... to COVID-19 restrictions, and featured the multimedia artist’s 2014 film H-E-L-L-O , commissioned for the multi-year curatorial project En Mas’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean . H-E-L-L-O . Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Smith performs a deconstructed ceremonial procession through the city...

... of separating “skin” from a biological schema in order to consider its ability to reflect and activate different states of racialized consciousness and corporeality. Through a study of Baker’s intricate and performative relations to various fashionable surfaces—from modern buildings to modern dress to her own...

... manipulation of multiple figural stereotypes. However, key moments in the afterlife of this image suggest that this work was mobilized to perform exactly that function of “selling Africa,” which it so insistently parodies. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 Samuel Fosso The Chief: He Who Sold...

... surrealists, and their contributions to internationalism, antifascist global protest, and decolonization, staged and performed outside the West. The artistic and intellectual output of the Egyptian surrealists was primarily centered around activities initiated by the Art and Liberty group (Jama’at al-Fann Wa...