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De-segregating the audience: race and the politics of exhibitions
by Mario Pissarra, 23.08.10 | Topic: Panel Presentations
This was prepared for a panel discussion with the same title, held at the Centre for the Book, Cape Town, on 19 August 2010. The panel formed part of the "Beyond the Racial Lens" conference, which was itself  part of the "Bonani 2010 Festival of Documentary Photography" convened by SAHO...
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Portugal as a place for Africa.cont
by Mario Pissarra, 11.01.10 | Topic: Panel Presentations
This was presented at a meeting of Africa.cont (www.africacont.org) held on 5 December 2009 at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. It was prepared for a panel discussion that was intended to address the possibilities and limitations of Portugal as a location for Africa.cont. Alda Costa, Barthelemy Toguo and Paul Goodwin were...
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Chalk and cheese, or yam and potatoes? Some thoughts on the need to develop a comparative critical practice
by Mario Pissarra, 25.11.09 | Topic: Panel Presentations
This was prepared for an AICA/Vansa seminar on art criticism in Africa, November 2007.Sometime in the very early 90s the Johannesburg based Afrika Cultural Center invited and hosted Ngugi wa Mirrii, the Kenyan born, Zimbabwe based theatre for development practitioner. As the general secretary of the Cultural Workers Congress, western...
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Picasso and Africa: Are we asking the right questions?
by Mario Pissarra, 14.05.06 | Topic: Panel Presentations
[slightly revised version of a paper presented for a panel discussion at the Picasso and Africa seminar, Centre for the Book, Cape Town, 13 May 2006] There is no doubt that Europe has stolen, and continues to steal from Africa. Thieves by nature do not usually disclose the sources of...
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The African Renaissance: Confronting the Unspeakable
by Randolph Hartzenberg, 26.03.06 | Topic: Panel Presentations
[Originally presented at the Design Education Forum of South Africa conference at the Cape Technikon, now the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, June 2000]A plague wind has been sweeping across Africa, blowing across stagnant pools of absurdity, deception and attrition. The wind tears into the new millennium. Attempts...
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Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of a Pan-African Network of Artists and Organisations Involved in Dialogue
by Ijeoma Uche-Okeke, 05.03.06 | Topic: Panel Presentations
(Paper presented at the ‘Reconnecting Africa’ for VANSA Conference on Transformation, Growth, Opportunity in the Visual Arts, Hiddingh Hall Campus, UCT, 10 February 2006).   I will begin with an excerpt from a report by the Pan-African Circle of Artists (PACA) based on a series of exhibitions titled ‘Overcoming Maps 3,’ which...
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Connecting Africa
by Mario Pissarra, 18.02.06 | Topic: Panel Presentations
[Paper prepared for the “Reconnecting Africa” panel at the “Transformation/Growth/ Opportunity ” conference convened by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa, Hiddingh Hall Campus, UCT, 10 February 2006] The title for this panel discussion should really be “connecting Africa ”. Certainly “reconnecting Africa ” is misleading if it implies...
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