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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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ASAI Annual Report (2010)
by ASAI, 12.07.10 | Topic: Reviews & Reports
Click here to download the Financial Statements in pdf.Chairperson’s report to the 2nd Annual General Meeting, 15 May 2010.                Zemba Luzamba www.asai.co.za/zembaMario Pissarra started ASAI with an immense amount of enthusiasm and determination. He hand picked each and every member and lobbied potential members to take up positions on...
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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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Doing things differently: the promise of Africa.cont
by Mario Pissarra, 20.05.10 | Topic: Opinion
When Jose Antonio Fernandes Dias, visual arts advisor to the Gulbenkian Foundation, was asked by the Mayor of Lisbon what he thought of the idea of a museum for contemporary African art in Portugal, an idea that came from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dias said that it was not...
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Gender DynamiX Speaks Out Against Xingwana's Bigotry
by Gender DynamiX, 10.03.10 | Topic: Speeches & Statements
Gender DynamiX is deeply concerned about the policing of bodies by the State.  A very large part of our work is centred on examining the practices of the Department of Health (DoH) and the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and their unethical activities towards Transgender people.  We are now faced...
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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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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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Decolonizing art in Africa: some preliminary thoughts on the relevance of the discourse on decolonization for contemporary African art, with particular reference to post-apartheid South Africa.
by Mario Pissarra, 25.11.09 | Topic: Opinion
This was initially presented at a lunch-time lecture at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2006. Some of these ideas have been further developed in subsequent papers. It is published here in its original form.1. The construction and imposition of “authenticities”“Indigenous” creativity in Africa was denigrated under colonialism. Africa...
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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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ASAI Annual Report (2009)
by ASAI, 17.04.09 | Topic: Reviews & Reports
ANNUAL REPORT PRESENTED TO THE FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF ASAI , 28 MARCH 2009   Click here to download our audited financial statements for 2009   In taking stock at this first Annual General Meeting it is evident that last year had both highs and lows for ASAI.   2008 began with much promise,...
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