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Between the Fine Print and a Hard Place: David Goldblatt’s South African Artifacts
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Nka (1998) 1998 (9): 52–57.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Gordon Bleach Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 Cafe-de-Move-On, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1964, photograph.
Between the Fine Print and a Hard Place
52«Nka...
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OUMOU SY: The African Place, Dakar, Senegal
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 44–46.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Hudita Nura Mustafa Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 1UM0U SY
The African Place,
Dakar, Senegal
Hudita Nura Mustafa...
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Documenta: the first and last exhibition of place
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Nka (2003) 2003 (18): 56–59.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of Contemporary African Art
last exhibition of place
intense emotional kicks, although there were many of those as work of art, liberate it from intra-art world obsessions and
well, but mind shifters in the sense that new ways of knowing the allowing to function openly...
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Sacred Places and Arlit: Deuxième Paris : Reterritorialization in African Documentary Films
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 70–79.
Published: 01 May 2013
...: Deuxième Paris (2004, Niger/France) and Jean-Marie Teno’s Sacred Places (2009, Cameroon/France). In particular, the article considers how the films reterritorialize documentary aesthetics through the use of landscape and testimony as metaphors for Africa’s post-colonial struggles. In doing so...
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Photographing Miles Davis
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 96–113.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and Sun Ra) appears
in Miles’s apartment, Barboza recalls the youthful- in Diaspora Memory Place: David Hammons/Maria
seeming forty- ve- year- old Miles Magdalena Campos- Pons/Pamela Z, edited by Cheryl
Finley and Salah M. Hassan (2008).
put...
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Select Highlights of Weusi History
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 68–75.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Gallery, among other places, and his Five Musical Years in Ghana
work is in a variety of private and public collections. steven feld
328 pages, 77 illustrations, paper, $23.95
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Originally published in the exhibition catalogue The Weusi: A “Feld...
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Rachid Koraïchi Faces Sea Terror in His Le Jardin d’Afrique : Reading W. E. B. DuBois in Zarzis
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 34–43.
Published: 01 November 2023
... aversion toward migrations and border-crossings. He created Le Jardin to restore the deserved dignity and respect of those who drowned in the Mediterranean en route to Europe. Koraïchi’s Le Jardin not only speaks to the place of art as a purposeful human endeavor, but also unmasks his profound grasp...
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Once Upon a Time, There was PANAF: Liberation Movements and Cultural Representations of African Dreams
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 170–183.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ahmed Bedjaoui A few years after achieving its independence in 1962, Algeria, under the umbrella of the Organization of the African Union, organized the first Pan African Cultural Festival, referred to as PANAF. The festival it took place in Algiers in July 1969 during a time when a few African...
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Beyond Multiple Modernities: East African Port Cities as the Space Between
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 116–125.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Prita Meier This article explores how an oceanic perspective challenges still pervasive ideas about the constitutive link between place and culture in the study of the arts of Africa. Taking the rich and diverse photographs of nineteenth-century coastal eastern Africa as a springboard, the author...
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Monumental Bodies: The Work of Dawit Abebe
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 48–60.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., texture, and detail of Abebe’s paintings in representing the human image is exquisite while adding a conceptual component that conjures up, for instance, notions of memory and nostalgia, conflicting imaginations of the nation, and the place of Ethiopia in the passage of history. While the Jerba series...
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Indochina, Traces of a Mother
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 146–148.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the French Empire in which the film takes place: West Africa and Southeast Asia, Benin, and Vietnam; the 1950s and today. Far from a politicohistorical documentary, however, Indochina explores the human possibilities of racial mixing and the psychological traumas of the Afro-Asian children most often torn...
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Through the Wire: Black British People and the Riot
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 6–15.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Eddie Chambers This text explores some of the ways in which press photographs have visualized key episodes of rioting involving Black people in the English cities of London and Birmingham. These range from the Notting Hill riots of 1958 through the riots that took place in Birmingham, Brixton...
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A Land of Signs
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 6–29.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Tamar Garb This essay looks at the way in which the history of South Africa is imprinted in representations of place. It examines images of the land as sites of inscription, exploring the residue of deep colonial history as well as the more immediate past of apartheid on the signs and signifiers...
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“Cut and Mix”: Jean-Michel Basquiat in Retrospect
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 88–95.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the seriousness and significance of the art he produced.” The artist’s place is even now much more secure in pop culture than in academe, so the Basquiat retrospective that opened at the Fondation Beyeler in 2010 and subsequently traveled to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris was not just a museum show...
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Dissonant Divas
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 22–31.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Gilane Tawadros Three works made up the exhibition Scat—Sonia Boyce: Sound and Collaboration , presented by Sonia Boyce and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) at Rivington Place in London from June through July 2013. The three works use image and sound in strikingly different...
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Kind of Miles: The Many Moods of Stuart Hall
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 8–15.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., deft and subtle in its ability to address the difficulties of dislocation, deracination, and out-of-placeness that is the everyday lived reality of the diaspora. Akomfrah draws us into Hall’s life through Davis’s discography. We are invited to access Hall, not only through his work, his writings...
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Ars and Techne: Jack Whitten Retrospective
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 16–27.
Published: 01 June 2017
... that defines his oeuvre as one that establishes his life experience as social history through the art of painting. His lifelong practice of abstraction, and the resulting bodies of work exhibited in the retrospective, confirm a prominent place for Whitten’s among the outstanding practitioners of American...
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Rapturous Bodies: A Conversation with Camille Norment
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 28–43.
Published: 01 June 2017
... societies and periods. Placing the sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis and activity has been one of the driving forces behind Camille Norment’s practice as a whole, and her project Rapture , in particular. Her practice has been inspired by the contextual relationships between sound...
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Journal of Uncollectable Journeys: Edson Chagas’s Found Not Taken Series and Other Works
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 44–55.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Ana Balona de Oliveira This essay examines Edson Chagas’s Found not Taken series (2008–), taking into account some of its main contexts of production and reception (from London and Newport to Luanda; from Luanda to Venice and London) while placing it in the broader framework of the artist’s...
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Soul Call: The First World Festival of Negro Arts At a Pivot of Black Modernities
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 124–135.
Published: 01 November 2018
... state structures and unifying societies with often staggering ethnic and linguistic diversity? This article seeks at once to place the festival in the context of such challenges and criticisms and notes the ways in which the festival enabled new possibilities, indeed a new moment, in global black...
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