Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-10127195
I. Wooden
Photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Notion of Family series (2001–14) strikingly looks forward through the past. The project traces its origins to Frazier’s teen years growing up in the industrial suburb of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving mill town just nine miles outside of Pittsburgh that drew many African Americans northward in the decades following the failures of Reconstruction. Braddock began experiencing rapid decline in the 1970s when American steel no longer dominated the global market. The Braddock that Frazier grew up in was characterized by many of the markers of industrial disintegration: widespread unemployment, decaying infrastructure, increased drug addiction, and palpable rage and despair about the collapse of the economy and local industry, among them. Frazier uses her photographic practice to document some of these developments and reckon with the implications and meanings of these changes in conditions for those suffering their consequences. Often central to and reflected in the artist’s work is a critique of narratives of progress. This article examines the ways The Notion of Family series bears witness to Black life experienced in real time while also demonstrating the impossibility of the dominant temporal order to account for Black living and being. Sharpening focus on several of the images of Frazier’s Grandma Ruby, featured in the series, The Notion of Family also examines how Frazier uses her photographic practice to refuse the kind of willful forgetting and violent obfuscating that insists upon rendering invisible or fungible Black people who have vitalized communities like Braddock for generations.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-10127209
M. Kincaid, Summer Sloane-Britt
ABSTRACT:This article is an expanded version of a catalogue essay written for the 2021 exhibition Cauleen Smith, H-E-L-L-O: To Do All At Once, Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The event was the first online exhibition of the series, due to COVID-19 restrictions, and featured the multimedia artist’s 2014 film H-E-L-L-O, commissioned for the multi-year curatorial project En Mas’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean. H-E-L-L-O. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Smith performs a deconstructed ceremonial procession through the city, activated by individual bass-clef musicians who together form a dispersed orchestra. Filmed in significant locations across New Orleans, Smith’s slow lurch sutures spaces that typically unyoke body from environment, architecture, or understanding by uniting her panoramic exploration with a five-note score drawn from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), which similarly fostered connection between distant and foreign bodies. This article explores the work’s confrontation of New Orleans as a historic space recovering from the traumatic devastation of the built environment and communal systems, a distorted signifier of “authentic” diasporic art forms like jazz and carnival for touristic economies, and a futurological imaginary that can reclaim both physical and psychic autonomy through reengagement with the city’s population on its own visual and sonic terms.
摘要:本文是为纽约大学美术学院大会堂展览“考琳·史密斯，H-E-L-L-O: To Do All At Once”撰写的目录文章的扩充版。由于新冠肺炎疫情的限制，此次活动是该系列的首次在线展览，并展出了多媒体艺术家2014年的电影H-E-L-L-O，该电影受多年策展项目“恩玛斯:加勒比嘉年华与行为艺术”的委托。H-E-L-L-O。以卡特里娜飓风后的新奥尔良为背景，史密斯在城市中表演了一场解构的仪式游行，由单个低音谱号音乐家组成了一个分散的管弦乐队。在新奥尔良的重要地点拍摄，史密斯的慢镜头缝合了空间，将她的全景探索与史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格的《第三类接触》(1977)中的五音符配乐结合起来，将身体从环境、建筑或理解中解放出来，这同样促进了遥远和陌生身体之间的联系。这篇文章探讨了新奥尔良作为一个从建筑环境和公共系统的创伤性破坏中恢复的历史空间，一个扭曲的“真实的”散散艺术形式的符号，如爵士乐和旅游经济的狂欢节，以及一个未来的想象，可以通过与城市人口重新接触，以自己的视觉和声音条件来收回身体和精神上的自主权。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-10127237
Jody B. Cutler-Bittner
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-10127167
Anita N. Bateman
ABSTRACT:This article contextualizes the work of contemporary photographer Aïda Muluneh within a broader discussion of Ethiopia’s recent political climate. The author argues that Muluneh visually interprets narratives of place, exile, and agency, with particular regard to issues of displacement, by showing photographic representation of Ethiopian modernity structured around Muluneh’s invocation of her personal history and reference to Ethiopia’s many ethnic groups. For the purpose of clarifying the term “modern,” this assignation refers to the demarcation of time in Ethiopia’s history beginning with the Zemema Mesafint, or Era of Princes (ca. 1760–1855), which laid the groundwork for the emergence of centralized imperial power that was later dissolved by the 1974 revolution. The article explores the consequences of state power and nationalism post-revolution in definitions of modernity as well the political messages Muluneh embeds within her images.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-9729190
A. Pocock
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{"title":"Alma W. Thomas","authors":"Jonathan Walz","doi":"10.1353/cal.2016.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2016.0146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41573,"journal":{"name":"Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cal.2016.0146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45470786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-9729064
Emily C. Burns
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Pub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1002/9781119631699.oth1
Salah M. Hassan
in Business Administration (DBA) from the Nova Southeastern University. He is also a Certified Systems Professional (CSP). Dr. Khosrow-Pour has taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University for 20 years where he was the chair of the information Systems Department for 14 years. He has also lectured at the He is the founder and currently Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA), a professional association with over thousand members throughout the U.S., Canada, and 52 other countries. He has served as the Program Chair and Proceedings Editor of IRMA International Conferences for the past 14 years. Dr. Khosrow-Pour is the author/editor of more than 20+ books on various topics of information technology utilization and management in organizations, and more than 50+ articles published in various conference proceedings and journals such as Journal of
{"title":"From the Editor","authors":"Salah M. Hassan","doi":"10.1002/9781119631699.oth1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119631699.oth1","url":null,"abstract":"in Business Administration (DBA) from the Nova Southeastern University. He is also a Certified Systems Professional (CSP). Dr. Khosrow-Pour has taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University for 20 years where he was the chair of the information Systems Department for 14 years. He has also lectured at the He is the founder and currently Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA), a professional association with over thousand members throughout the U.S., Canada, and 52 other countries. He has served as the Program Chair and Proceedings Editor of IRMA International Conferences for the past 14 years. Dr. Khosrow-Pour is the author/editor of more than 20+ books on various topics of information technology utilization and management in organizations, and more than 50+ articles published in various conference proceedings and journals such as Journal of","PeriodicalId":41573,"journal":{"name":"Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85860750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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