Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-8971594
Jody B. Cutler-Bittner
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-8971524
Ibrahim Mahama
{"title":"Out of Bounds","authors":"Ibrahim Mahama","doi":"10.1215/10757163-8971524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8971524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41573,"journal":{"name":"Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46198458","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 : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-8971356
Sir David Adjaye
{"title":"All the World's Futures","authors":"Sir David Adjaye","doi":"10.1215/10757163-8971356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8971356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41573,"journal":{"name":"Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art","volume":"48 1","pages":"136 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85778337","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 : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-8971454
I. Julien
{"title":"Curating at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020","authors":"I. Julien","doi":"10.1215/10757163-8971454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8971454","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41573,"journal":{"name":"Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art","volume":"70 1","pages":"142 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91368108","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 : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-8719629
Yasmine Espert
Abstract:Pressure, the first feature film by a black British director, was the center of praise and critique at the time of its release. Completed in 1974, it narrates a coming-of-age story about a young man who discovers the complexity of Black Power activism in London. This article investigates how the Trinidad-born director Horace Ové pictures activists and Caribbean migrants of the Windrush generation throughout the film. Close analyses reveal that Ové relied on his training as a documentarian to capture what he perceived to be an authentic, rather than celebratory, version of London's black community. His deliberate choice to steer from an "uplift" aesthetic ignited a debate that continues to the present day. I argue that Ové's observational style in the film attempts to picture the public and the inner lives of black Britain. Ultimately, it shows that the call for equity and liberation is more than a matter of public protest dressed in the aesthetic of blaxploitation. My argument draws on scholarship by Kevin Quashie and Elizabeth Alexander to reveal the potential of the interior and the imagination in representations of Black Power.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10757163-8719656
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 University and the aftermaths of the Second World War in Africa, respectively, the article touches on issues of art education, the production of historical meaning, and the role of cultural institutions in Uganda. It also examines the complex entanglement between colonial legacies and postcolonial and neoliberal systems of value, revealing the value of artistic research to reveal subversive alternatives to those articulations.
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