...Laurie Ann Farrell Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 ical engagement. The artworks CON/TEXT are often accompanied by educa• tional...

... Dyer is News Editor and London Correspondent for Contemporary magazine; Assistant Editor at Third Text; and Art Editor of Wasafiri...

..., and critic. He is currently on the advisory board of Third Text, and he is an editor of Nka. He lives in London. ...

... Dhabi; with Diawara she has co-authored texts on Goya, Glissant, and contemporary art (Cahiers d Art, Paris); Glissant, André Breton and the new sacred (Arts & Cultures, Barbier Mueller, Geneva), and an article on Paulo Nazareth (The Power Plant, Toronto). Notes This text was originally commissioned...

..., the earliest traceable member of my family." Aunt Emmy, 2000, Acrylic on canvas. Betsy Bingham appears as the narrator in the 1991 text of "Matisse's Chapel" {The French Collection) in which...

... footage hegemonic order rests. In this regard, Giardini’s of physical abjection—­of manual labor and im­ evocative realm of perceptual contingency might prisonment—­draw colonial and neocolonial con- be seen to risk a certain aestheticization, which texts together...

... and related photography by five cele - as a whole, and required to turn his or cloth, mounted as banners on T-bar highlight the degree to which it could The bacillus of slavery is still present Text. brated contemporary artists who en - her attention one...

... and colonialism, and most specifically Black/African Marxism, through a close reading of an autobiographical text written by the late Sudanese Marxist, Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, in the course of elaborating why he became a Marxist. Mahgoub was very clear in differentiating between Western philosophy and Marxism. He...

...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...

... and college students from African and Caribbean nations who were in residence on the campus. Historical events that led to the opening of the gallery are woven into the text. Founded during the growth of the Black Arts movement, the Brockman Gallery provided early exposure to a number of artists who are today...

... Marx’s dialectical materialism without questioning why Marx’s scientific explanation of universal history failed to account for the absence of a Black proletariat in Martinique. The author’s comparison between Breton and the Martiniquan texts concludes that the most evident difference between them...

... to be regarded as such. Via texts, sounds, and objects the artists challenge us to see, not bodies, but the cultural constructions of and around them. Moreover, Green, Hoyt, and Bright demonstrate that blackness cannot be seen or shown by any body, or, rather, no body is perfect. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal...

... from the ragged, yet beautiful, threads of daily life as influenced by the long-term effect of history and its implications on what plays out in the present. These narratives are punctuated by an abundance of words, text, and literary references that are written, spoken, sung, recited, projected...

...-built structure— AFRICA makes it clear that architectural modernity is an act of negotiation with no clear final outcome. Notwithstanding curatorial declarations that the exhibition would neither try to “pinpoint the specifically African” nor rely upon generalizations, too often the wall texts...

... title, Phoebe Boswell: For Every Real Word Spoken , is taken from Audre Lorde’s essay, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (1977). The exhibition is composed of a series of eight drawings of eight female figures, an animation, and ephemeral drawings and texts on the gallery walls...

.... Among its concluding considerations are the ways in which much of this new scholarship emanates from US rather than from British universities. Finally, the article urges a “rescuing from obscurity” of important pioneering texts on black British artists. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019...

...Alice Correia This article considers the role of self-portraiture within the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98). The text investigates the ways in which Rodney used the self-portrait, not to visualize himself, but to animate issues associated with the dominant framings of black men...

... career, accompanied by a select number of images of his oeuvre from his early days in his native Alexandria to his sojourns in Baghdad and Cairo, and his current practice in New York City, where he has been living since 1974. It also offers a glimpse, in image and in text, of his diverse corpus...

... for providing translations of Marxist-Leninist texts, condemnations of anti-fascist and anti-imperialist ideals and politics, and affirmations of social reform and freedom of expression. On the other hand, the author supposes that it may also be the case that only a few photographic works produced by artists...

... violence to the greater public through expository text and imagery. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 racial violence lynching antilynching discourse Meta Warrick Fuller Mary Turner Meta Warrick Fuller’s MARY TURNER and THE MEMORY OF MOB VIOLENCE...