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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 30–42.
Published: 01 November 2017
... transnationalism TransAfrican anomalous intimacy FROM TRANSNATIONAL TO TRANSAFRICAN Winold Reiss and Romare Bearden Jeffrey C. Stewart n this article I explore some of the hidden reso- nances, the “anomalous intimacies...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 136–153.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of Negro Arts (Dakar, Senegal, 1966), the International Meeting of Sculptors (Mexico City, 1968), and the Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969). The transnational relationships and growing solidarity with Third Worldism and Pan-Africanism evident in the exhibition history of the 1960s show the ways...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 72–84.
Published: 01 November 2022
... echoes voguers’ transgression of high fashion in dance competitions. Newsome stages a transnational and transhistorical dialogue between two distinct but interconnected systems of oppression, imperialism and global capitalism, thus sketching a collective history of Black pain and of creative resilience...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 156–159.
Published: 01 May 2011
...- abject; the gallery itself seems to lose date at the University of Chicago and its exterior integrity, to be wounded. a New York–based art critic. He writes Moth Girls also takes us most literally about contemporary art in a variety of back eighty years to surrealism, with transnational...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 110–123.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Tsitsi Jaji The large-scale Pan-African festivals held in Senegal, Algeria, and Nigeria (1966–77) are recognized as central to forging a transnational repertoire of cultural practices and memories that are the bedrock of a post-independence global black consciousness. Nevertheless, such festivals...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 56–61.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and transnational solidarity, and an international and anti-imperialist solidarity. In addressing the question, “Who is African and who is not?,” the author reminds readers that traces of Africa cover the face of the capitalist and Islamic worlds. The precolonial history of African societies is a history...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 62–71.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of ethnic or xenophobic closure, and it may foreground an effective cosmopolitanism that ensures social rights on a local and a transnational level. The author considers not only the European nationalist tradition but also the ways in which it was appropriated and redefined in non-European places...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 40–53.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in a continuum of Egyptian modern art and an important node in the transnational expansion of surrealism in the late 1930s. To situate the movement in a larger arc, this article spans the 1910s to the 1950s. An analysis of famous sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar (1891–1934) first represents the nationalist...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 44–59.
Published: 01 November 2017
... presented in this article constitute part of a larger book project of the same title, now under way, that interrogates the cultural, aesthetic, and ideological discourses fostered by Benga’s physical presence and position as transnational icon of black agency within American and European modernist practice...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 68–81.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Carlos Garrido Castellano This article explores the capacity of visual arts to deal with transnational, multidirectional processes of remembering and spatial redefinition. Through analyzing two sets of work by Emma Wolokau-Wanambwa that address the tradition of formal art training at Makerere...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 40–52.
Published: 01 May 2021
... by Enwezor remained on the margins, outside of international and noninstitutional artistic circuits, Lagtaâ’s work was an intrinsic part of the early 1970s collective experiments and transnational networks of artistic exchange between Eastern Europe and other geographical regions. © 2021 by Nka...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 46–55.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of the Lumpenproletariat in our current moment of global capital. It takes up Zoe Leonard’s Analogue series (2007) and focuses on a sequence of photographs within it that represent the transnational traffic in used clothing— a circuit that links Shenzhen to Brooklyn to Kampala. With a close analysis of Leonard’s...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (34): 8–13.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of collective agent that constitutes the infrastructure of the global nuclear regime, as analyzed by the critic Sabu Kohso. The article adopts the perspective of a transnational scientific-corporate entity to unfold the implications of understanding the high scientific uncertainty of low-level radiation...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 100–113.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., photography, television, and video are revealed in a recent conversation with Selene Wendt. Topics include how and why he became interested in video as a medium, the development of video as a medium, and issues related to his transnational identity. A significant part of the interview relates to his seminal...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Laurel Jean Fredrickson This article explores the immersive audio-visual and sculptural art installations in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) of three transnational contemporary women artists with familial ties to former colonies and protectorates. The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, MBE...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 88–102.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on view and enabling surface-level over deep engagement with the creative contributions of these artists and the transnational networks from which their practices emerged. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 2024 Venice Biennale diaspora modernism abstraction...
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Nka (2003) 2003 (18): 34–39.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of communication technologies connect these city via its role as a key center of transnational trade and imperi• urban centers beyond borders and produce a tightly woven web al expansion in the pre-modern period, is currently grappling of interconnected cities across the globe These sites...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 6–13.
Published: 01 May 2021
... panelists papers, was to incorporate a mix the 2020 CAA conference. After speaking with our of contributions from diverse cultural perspectives colleagues about this unique situation, we started to that addressed the regional and transnational in realize that in the minds of the art world, Enwezor equal...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2023
... removes him from the politically salient narrative of postcolonial modernism. It is true that Gharbaoui s practice was elaborated internationally and in dialogue with transnational modernist abstraction. Many of his stated influences were European. Following Edward Said, though, the influx of artists...
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 69.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., the transnational, Tanner and quilter Harriet Powers, to forms as richly performative coupled the usual regional and ethnic distinc• flexible, and highly innovative ap• the overriding racism illustrated...