... transcultural gaze sexuality DIFFERENT, BUT NOT ABNORMAL “OUT” IN AFRICA Lyle Ashton Harris n this article I share a few observations and personal reflections that inform my recent work...

... particular, to his curatorial working principles of the organization of Documenta11 as a globally dis- transculturality and extraterritoriality as well tributed network of discursively and conceptually as draw on the notion of the curatorial developed interconnected platforms contributed to restruc...

... and suturing questions of the postcolonial in relation to diasporic perspectives in twentieth-century photography. Barnor’s remarkable portraits represent significant moments in African diasporic subject formation and the cosmopolitan self-fashioning that emerged in tandem with transcultural journeys through...

...• bility of meaning production and transcultural legibility. sued by the artist. Craig Owens has described an early 1970s Thought is not to ground a political, critical, or negative practice mode of site-specificity as one of melancholic discourse and in Truth or History...

... constitutes a transcultural docu• ment that is more closely aligned In her new series of photo...

.... That, then, tial event that the historian describes as "the colo• is an identity constituted within a system of repre• nial or colonising gaze, with visibility as a [type of] sentation. And it is in that gesture where identity colonisation."8 Thinkers like Fanon responded to appears permeable...

... current of acceptance of global artists. In regard to filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles strolls along the these contemporary artists, their transcultural streets and into Baltimore's George Peabody influences reflect not the deauthentication of their Library and Walters Art Museum. As the two pro...

... history of artistic convention and transcultural exchange, drawing on references ranging from seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting to contemporary art. In Mthethwa’s photographs an intense pictorial visuality serves as a starting point for both documentary portraiture and critical inquiry...

... explores the white female body in her collages to the same effect. Both artists reverse the scopic gaze, a process that we see begins to proliferate...

... of personality and status.27 of nation: a hope he continues to express in his art Colomba’s black subject perfectly adapts to this and musings. narrative of portraiture with her haute couture, To conclude this examination, I want to briefly powerful posing, and steely gaze...

... African American Brett Cook Wura-Natasha Ogunji Nigerian art TRANSCULTURAL CONVERSATIONS American and Nigerian Art in Dialogue Peju Layiwola Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41 • November 2017 140 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-4271696 ©...

... of their agency and desire. They also politics, and cultural experience through musical grappled with the problem of enunciating their past forms that were inherently hybrid, impure, compli- and present relationships with Africa as an idea and cated, transcultural, and transhistorical. Nowhere...