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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 56–66.
Published: 01 November 2020
...,” or reworking the mundane in the service of the marvelous. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 black art contemporary art American art queer art new media art Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 202056 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719641 © 2020 by Nka Publications Christina Knight...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Holiday Powers Occurring every two years, the Venice Biennale remains a key node for contemporary art. In Venice, in addition to a main exhibition, national pavilions are located primarily between the two main biennale sites, the Giardini and the Arsenale, and collateral events are scattered across...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 80–89.
Published: 01 November 2016
... twenty years, 19 Okwui Enwezor, “Networks of Practice: Globalization, but grasping the meaning of blackness from a queer feminist Geopolitics, Geopoetics,” in Contemporary African Art since 1980 perspective in connection to representation is a complex endeavor. (Bologna: Damiani, 2009), 25. One...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 88–98.
Published: 01 November 2019
...: Routledge, 1996), 2 13. 6 Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 10. 7 Sharpe, In the Wake, 21. 8 In Queer Art: A Freak Theory, Renate Lorenz traces how freak shows had their high point in the nineteenth century, specifically in the period between...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 32–39.
Published: 01 November 2016
... blackness and black people with a perverse foreignness. In the figures of Soubise and Shonibare, these insults are turned into a fabulous, subversive queerness productive of both nurture and death. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 dandyism blackness queerness Oscar...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 96–100.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., Methodology of the Oppressed, 62. My emphasis. 16 Beam, In the Life. 17 Juana María Rodríguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (New York: NYU Press, 2014). 100 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 ...
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Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 20–25.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 THE PAULDINi HarrisG, Vintage: Families of value, 1995. Film Still AVENUE...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 96–106.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., 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 10.1215/10757163-10435036 © 2023 by Nka Publications Leasho Johnson, Deloris, 2020. Charcoal...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Eddie Chambers [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. From the Editor L argely unattended to dimensions of African American art...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 72–84.
Published: 01 November 2022
... sparked in the 1970s by the Black and Latinx Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities in New York. The muses are disenfranchised African American trans women who have faced a long-standing subjugation anchored in America’s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 44–59.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on, twentieth-century American, European, and black diasporic art and culture. It seeks to contextualize as well as critique a select sampling of visual representations and performative operations of this enigmatic African, who conscientiously exploited the interests and conceits of modernism and primitivism...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 136–137.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the social and ideological contexts for Fani-Kayode s transgressive art. Ever attentive to social context, Bourland introduces the reader to brilliant inter- pretations of how Fani-Kayode s pho- tography blended various queer and aesthetic cultures. Through this blend- ing, the book demonstrates how Fani...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 30–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
... queer perspectives have contrib- .barnard.edu/sfonline/ice/palsson_01.htm. uted to changing the discussion of art history, Arc- 9. See Homi K. Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man,” in The Loca- tion of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), p. 86...
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 88–93.
Published: 01 May 2008
...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...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 54–61.
Published: 01 November 2015
... disaporan aesthetic and sensibilities. Ideally, the conversation sparked by this project will continue to challenge, evolve, and inform ideas of masculinity, class, gender, and sexuality. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Black fashion dandyism sapeur Swenka...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 152–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... with negative emotions: sorrow, pain, and humiliation. Illustrative of the turn is the 2009 exhibition Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art , which considered pain and suffering as overrated and sought to provide a more accurate picture of life on the continent as a mix of pleasure and pain...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 62–69.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Monica L. Miller This essay examines musician and style icon Janelle Monáe’s signature suit of clothes—her tuxedo—and argues that the tuxedo and its accompanying styling create productive tensions between restraint and abandon, typicality and queerness, captivity and freedom. For Monáe...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 184–191.
Published: 01 November 2021
... by Sir John Gielgud in 1940s colonial Cairo. In addition to the fact that Gielgud s perfor­ mance of Hamlet is also considered among the earliest queer interpretations of this role, the scene 190 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49 November 2021 dislocates and juxtaposes photographic shots...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 114–125.
Published: 01 November 2023
...: Ismail Noor 114 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 53 November 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10904132 © 2023 by Nka Publications James Meyer Meyer Nka 115 Hoda Afshar, Remain, 2018. Two channel digital video, color and sound, 24 minutes. Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 15, Old Al Dhaid...
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Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 88–89.
Published: 01 May 2004
... tentatively around more Viewed within the trajectory of production. Acknowledging his cant departure from his earlier fundamental issues of queer postmodern identity art, Ligon's early interest in Abstract Expres...