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The Curator as Culture Broker: A Critique of the Curatorial Regime of Okwui Enwezor in the Discourse of Contemporary African Art
by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, 23.06.10 | Topic: Research
PrologueI presented this essay recently at the University of California Santa Cruz, at a conference titled The Task of the Curator. The general audience reception to my presentation showed me that the issue discussed here is being very much debated in the field of African art history. However, few people...
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Decolonisation of art in Africa: a post-apartheid South African perspective
by Mario Pissarra, 26.11.09 | Topic: Research
This was presented at the annual conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians at the University of Stellenbosch, 2008.This is not a tightly argued paper, but more of a loose mapping of ideas that have preoccupied me for several years, ideas triggered by the implications of the concept of...
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Re-reading Malangatana
by Mario Pissarra, 06.01.08 | Topic: Research
[An edited version of this essay appeared in Farafina # 11]   For more than 40 years Malangatana has been one of Mozambique’s best known cultural figures, and indisputably her best known visual artist. Since his first appearance in a group exhibition in Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) in 1959, Malangatana’s works have...
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Accumulated Material: Contemporary Altares and Ofrendas
by Jesus Macarena-Avila, 15.08.06 | Topic: Research
[This essay was written for an exhibition featuring Giselle A. Mercier, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, and Edra Soto, at Gallery Visio, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA, curated by Jesus Macarena-Avila, 7-18 November 2006]       INTRODUCTION: RECYCLIA AS TRANSFORMATION Fig.1: Giselle A. Merciers installation work (detail shown here) explores her Afro-mestiza traditions   "Recyclia...
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