... of a sputnik and kids learning how to fly drones. Courtesy the artist Out of Bounds A Reflection on Okwui Can the failures of the twentieth century lead us to- Enwezor s Contribution ward new degrees of freedom? What does freedom to the Art World and artistic responsibility have in common? Can the concept...

...Abdellah Karroum © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Okwui s Curating World Abdellah Karroum When I am asked what is the most important thing in entrance to Serbia because of the visa. Although Okwui life, I answer luck, and the second most important is and my colleagues were allowed to enter...

...Penny M. Von Eschen This article explores implicit as well as explicit debates over modernity among African American artists at the 1966 World Festival of Black Arts held in Dakar, Senegal, honing in on moments that reveal tensions among the artists as well as between artists and the US officials...

... of universalism that originally underlay the colonialist premise. The article also explores the ways in which Attia’s focus on the spatial and pictorial exclusion of migrant and exiled subjects engages the art world’s celebration of its own purported global reach. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary...

... Glissant elaborates on his theory of Relation and the concept of “Tout-monde.” This conversation is from that film: Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2009). Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011 One World in Relation...

... Analog Girls in a Digital World Fatimah Tuggar’s Afrofuturist Intervention in the Politics of “Traditional” African Art Journal of Contemporary African Art • 33 • Fall 2013 70 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2352821  © 2014 by Nka Publications...

... cultural diversity. Specifically, the Carnival of Quelimane in Mozambique stands as a testament to the celebration of local traditions, particularly from the Zambézia region. Broadening the lens to the “carnivalesque” universe, defined by its paradigm shifts, performance, humor, and a world of inversions...

...Sir David Adjaye, OBE © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 David Adjaye and Okwui Enwezor, 2015, Haus der Kunst lecture and seminar on architecture, Munich, Germany. Photo: © Marion Vogel All the World s Futures Sir David Adjaye OBE In a series of essays published by Jacques Derrida the art world...

... impact introducing, interpreting, and dispersing these ideas among writers, artists, and the public in Egypt for more than two decades. He was most active in Cairo during the years surrounding the Second World War, founding in 1938 the Art and Liberty group of writers and artists, who spread their ideas...

...Selene Wendt All the World s Histories AT THE 59TH VENICE BIENNALE Selene Wendt I n 2015, Okwui Enwezor made history with his groundbreaking exhibition for the 55th Venice Biennale, All the World s Futures. He extended beyond the standard Biennale format with a multidisciplinary concept...

...) and completed an installation for All the World s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 Nka 159 DOI 10.1215/10757163-8971412 © 2021 by Nka Publications ...

... of Artist Studio, 2022. Nairobi, Kenya. Courtesy of the artist T he summer of 2022, by every measure, felt as though the world was finally emerging from the dark, terrifying scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic. If the previous two years meant staying home to avoid the disease, the arrival and availability...

... to the creation or reclamation ing spheres can o en result in reterritorialization of African territory on local and world screens. or deterritorialization of culture and nation. This is particularly evident in the process of decolonization, Rhizome or Baobab Tree? where “the conquered or visited peoples...

... the colonial violence he rest of the world, many a movement ghting for the witnessed, violence expressed every day through emancipation of various peoples invoked Fanon’s racism and worse, through the torture used by the heretical name. For numerous organizations com- French army against Algerian...

... fictional world of Faith Ringgold is a world which is so dis• took place between the pro-slavery and abolitionist forces in turbingly based on historical reality. the state. In 1786, an Act was passed in order "to Prevent the Importation of Slaves Into the State of New Jersey, and to Jones...

... Congress (PAC) by police, resulting in the deaths of sixty-nine people, is a prime example of this fact. Photojournalists at the protest captured the gunfire and the bloodied bodies that lay strewn on the ground in its aftermath shocking images that would awaken the world to what was happening in South 140...