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Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 44–49.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 THE INVERTED SIGN Okwui Enwezor FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE'S postcard-sized drawings rendered with colored pen• cils on cardboard possess a strange and intoxicating charm. Poised between a readily...
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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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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 112–115.
Published: 01 May 2015
...NJ Hynes Owusu-Ankomah has long drawn on Ghanaian adrinka symbols as motifs for his paintings. Over the years he has added other signs to his repertoire, ranging from Chinese characters and crop-circle schemata to invented signs and, even, snowflakes. In Microcron Begins , his second solo...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 52–58.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Trica Keaton Au Nègre Joyeux , a large sign that dates from the late eighteenth century, is prominently on display in an area of high tourism in Paris, France. There is no accompanying historical plaque to explain its provenance or significance, and sources about the piece are contradictory as well...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 188–191.
Published: 01 November 2017
... with the work as she focuses on spatial dynamics and the ethics and politics of audience participation. The work expands political and ethical questions about woman as “sign” and the tensions that exist within the idea of woman as a collective “we.” The reviewer foregrounds the dense intertextuality...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 70–95.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Sabine Dahl Nielsen; Anne Ring Petersen One of the most remarkable signs of the importance and adaptability of Okwui Enwezor’s work is the way in which the transformative models for exhibition making that he developed have found their way into small-scale institutional spaces and extra...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 54–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Monique Kerman Artist Mary Evans has been working in cut paper since the mid-1990s. In her chosen medium, Evans investigates signs and signifiers of the way humans tend to classify certain races and nationalities, particularly in visual terms. Over the course of her career, her work has evolved...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 114–119.
Published: 01 November 2014
... straplines and slogans promising services from reincarnation to sexual longevity. These universally resonant signs indexing the unity of cross-cultural depravity open a transcendental void and thus exist as chronicles of apparently self-destructive times in which mass consumption serves to palliate a darker...
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Nka (2003) 2003 (18): 84–87.
Published: 01 May 2003
... for meaning. Kora'ichi's large scale multi-media installations. In his artistic ceuvre, where men are signs and where words are turned around as if to reflect one another better in a mirror...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 134–141.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the importance of gesture and points to an important evolution: following the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, anti-apartheid protestors aban- doned the thumbs-up sign...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 30–37.
Published: 01 November 2001
... what may differentiate among orality, writing, and representa• and other key figures that have brought Hassan's worth to the tion. His painting indeed relegates the sign to a state of fluctua• public eye today. A second and not less important source of tion in unremitting...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 8–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
... words linger: “I am not signs. The poets and visual artists dramatized the complete here.” The Black Arts black book also has visual shape of language, but they also used the this lack of closure. Consider the final words of In visual to dramatize how lines that create clear Our Terribleness: “Now...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 123.
Published: 01 May 2001
... singular statement. youth and newness of its cre• ence with identity politics play a In his School Days (2000), the ators to the art world. However, major role in interpretation. Mul• juxtaposition of signs and sym• further study yields evidence...
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Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 58–61.
Published: 01 May 1995
... it in the service of painting. Like Antoni more practical pictorial elements. Lace, cloth, and string, Tapies, he explores the boundaries of the etching medium crumpled remnants of human endeavor, stand in as signs by employing all manners of image making. By impressing for those...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2009
... ing away its sign, the identity of name between the and the photographed. Contrary to the ordinary photographer and the photographed, blurs the photograph, a self-portrait is defined from both borderline between the autonymous and the het• sides of the camera: the side...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Noah Purifoy, cited in “The Art of Communication as a Cre- were compelled by the 1965 Watts riot to engage in ative Act,” Junk Art: 66 Signs of Neon (Los Angeles: 66 Signs of Neon, 1966), n.p. socially conscious work while drawing on such modernist...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 202–209.
Published: 01 November 2016
... or absent, such as his works presented in Dakar’s eleventh biennale (2014) and Martinique’s first biennale (2013). Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 performance art disembody Goddess Constellations Caribbean art sign and symbol FROM BODY TO DISEMBODIMENT...
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Nka (2006) 2006 (20): 22–31.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of threefold Signed in negative: "Pruitt Photo." Original photograph circa 1910. struggle over the meaning, possession, representa• Lithographed poster circa 1965. 10...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 168–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... After the summer of 2013, all signs of the revolution have been erased from the streets of Cairo, and the crackdown on ac- tivists has been escalating since then. Any sign of opposition is immediately crushed. Looking back at the window of freedom that was created on the streets before the military coup...
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 96–98.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Elizabeth Harney Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 • .' • • • ong• o • '• •' " • • Burozi, signed Tshibumba, detail Le Congo est en Trouble a Cause de cet homme de Lumumba, arretons le (Congo...