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... 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...

...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 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...

... 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...

... 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 [email protected] © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 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...

...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...

.... Nairobi, Kenya. Courtesy of the artist Okeke-Agulu Nka 109 View 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...

... 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...

... this work, Subotzky gained unusually generous access to the maximum security Pollsmoor Prison and, for a while, habituated himself within its life and cultures, photographing inmates as they went through their daily labors, engaging in criminal and illegal activity, fantasizing about the world outside...

...) 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 ...

... unknown in the Anglophone world. tion is extinguished and becomes spectral. From the first line to the last, the reader of the I do not remember exactly when I first read Notebook is captivated by a singular voice. It Aime Cesaire's most celebrated work, the long...

.... On the left we see the funnels smoking, sur• or from "Third World" countries to Europe and rounded by a white structure that recalls the hotel North America. once more, and on the right the corner of the By employing two screens, Sedira is able to jux...

...• identity. Present, too, in these photographs is a continu• tant to realize that architectural and cultural space are ous dialogue with Western art, most notably Orientalist profoundly interconnected in the Arab world, private painting. The series attempts to register at a place...

... Olugebefola and associate Ed Sherman 1986–1990 represent the United States as part of a delegation to Several Weusi artists’ designs are published on FESTAC ’77 — the Second World Festival of African Kwanzaa greeting and note cards, then distributed and Black Art and Culture in Lagos and Kaduna...