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	<title><![CDATA[Gender DynamiX Speaks Out Against Xingwana&#039;s Bigotry]]></title>
	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Gender DynamiX is deeply concerned about the policing of bodies by the State.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; We are now faced with the question whether this...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=77</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Portugal as a place for Africa.cont]]></title>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[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 also on this panel, which...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=76</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Decolonisation of art in Africa: a post-apartheid South African perspective]]></title>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[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 decolonization, specifically as it has...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=75</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[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.]]></title>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[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 &ldquo;authenticities&rdquo;&ldquo;Indigenous&rdquo; creativity in Africa was denigrated under colonialism. Africa was denied a history and...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=73</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Chalk and cheese, or yam and potatoes? Some thoughts on the need to develop a comparative critical practice]]></title>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[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 Cape, I took on the...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=74</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[ASAI Annual Report (2009)]]></title>
	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[ANNUAL REPORT PRESENTED TO THE FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF ASAI , 28 MARCH 2009
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Click here to download our audited financial statements for 2009
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In taking stock at this first Annual General Meeting it is evident that last year had both highs and lows for ASAI.
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2008 began with much promise, After commencing the process of...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=72</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Africa&#039;s Interlocutors: Lize van Robbroeck in conversation with Sylvester Ogbechie]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This is an edited version of an email exchange&nbsp;that took place in&nbsp;July 2006. It formed part of a series of conversations conducted for From the Ground Up, the Reader developed for the Cape Africa Platform&rsquo;s Trans Cape exhibition. Unfortunately, the publication of the Reader was held back indefinitely, as a consequence of the funding shortfall...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=69</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Creating New Conditions for Creativity: Mario Pissarra in conversation with Uche Okeke]]></title>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This is an edited version of a recorded telephone conversation that took place on 10 July 2006. It formed part of a series of conversations conducted for From the Ground Up, the Reader developed for the Cape Africa Platform&rsquo;s Trans Cape exhibition. Unfortunately, the publication of the Reader was held back indefinitely, as a consequence...]]></description>   
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	<title><![CDATA[Making History: Gavin Jantjes in conversation with Rasheed Araeen]]></title>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This is an edited version of a recorded telephone conversation and email exchange that took place in July 2006. It formed part of a series of conversations conducted for From the Ground Up, the Reader developed for the Cape Africa Platform&rsquo;s Trans Cape exhibition. Unfortunately, the publication of the Reader was held back indefinitely, as...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=68</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Africa South]]></title>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Thank you very much for inviting me to open the africa south exhibition. The art works on display give a lie to those who proclaim the dissolution of the creative spirit on this continent and I wish to begin by congratulating all the artists whose work is exhibited here and also Mario Pissarra for his...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=66</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Statement on the Violence Against Foreign Nationals]]></title>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[If art were to mirror our society right now, it would reflect the rainbow as a tattered farce, the African Renaissance as a bad stand-up comedy routine, the notion of ubuntu as a horror movie, and our much-admired constitution as a satire on what we have become.&nbsp;Given where we have come from, with Madiba&#039;s inaugural...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=65</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[On the Need to Consume: An interview with Manthia Diawara]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[This interview was originally published in the Chicago Art Journal and is reproduced here with permission from Manthia Diawara.
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Manthia Diawara is Professor of Comparative Literature, Film and Africana Studies at New York University, where he also serves as Director of the Institute of African American Affairs. He has written extensively on literature and visual culture,...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=64</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[ASAI enters a new phase]]></title>
	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[From its modest inception as a website a little over two years ago, the Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) has emerged as a bona-fide organisation with a mission to develop critical resources on art in Africa. 
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The &lsquo;early&rsquo; ASAI was a private initiative. However, the project always contained a collaborative element, and it was envisaged...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=63</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Re-reading Malangatana]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[An edited version of this essay appeared in Farafina # 11]
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For more than 40 years Malangatana has been one of Mozambique&rsquo;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&rsquo;s works have been shown in numerous countries...]]></description>   
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	<title><![CDATA[africa south [online catalogue]]]></title>
	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[africa south @ AVA: Cape Town, 26 Nov.&nbsp;&ndash; 14 Dec.&nbsp;2007 Featured artistsLuzamba Zemba (b. Lubumbashi, DRC, 1973)Ernestine White (b. Cape Town, 1976)

Donovan Ward (b. Cape Town, 1962)
Mandla Vanyaza (b. Cape Town, 1963)
Stacey Stent (b. Cape Town, 1947)
Velile Soha (b. Cape Town, 1957)
Ayesha Price (b. Cape Town, 1975)
Mario Pissarra (b. Durban, 1959)
Sophie Peters (b. Kliptown, Johannesburg,...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=60</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[The stakes of art criticism in Africa]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This article originally appeared in Gallery No. 19, March 1999, pp. 14-15; and appears here with the permission of the author and the publisher. Initial interest in republishing this article stemmed in part from the need to highlight the critical contribution of&nbsp;publications produced in Africa - Gallery was published from 1994 to 2002 by the...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=56</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[The JAG is the SANG]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[I have long argued that transformation of the South African National Gallery has been badly managed. Thirteen years into democracy it has failed to produce a demographically representative pool of curators.&nbsp;Perhaps more importantly, it has failed to re-orientate its Eurocentric origins by neglecting to prioritise developing relationships with other African countries. Instead, in the name...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=53</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Imbacu [exhibition review]]]></title>
	<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[From the outset I welcomed this exhibition since exile (&lsquo;Imbacu&rsquo; in isiXhosa) has received scant attention from South African curators and art historians, despite being perhaps the earliest form of resistance practiced by our artists. I was also curious whether Loyiso Qanya&rsquo;s curatorial debut represented a shift within the SANG, an institution that has done...]]></description>   
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	<title><![CDATA[Shaping Art Education in Africa: Face-to-Face Dialogues on Curriculum, Teaching- Learning and Assessment]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Deliberating Access to Quality Art Education in the 21st Century
Greetings! Or ndewo, as it is said in one of the Kwa language groups. The following are the proceedings of the panel, Shaping Art Education in Africa: Face-to-Face Dialogues on Curriculum, Teaching-Learning and Assessment at the14th Triennial Symposium on African Art organized by the Arts Council...]]></description>   
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	<title><![CDATA["Made in Africa" Biennale: Afrika Heritage and the Politics of Representation]]></title>
	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[The baggage of post-coloniality continues to weigh-in strongly in the discourse of contemporary African art, moreso when this discourse is coloured by the politics and economics of representation. In the 1990s, the contest that ensued in the global art space with regards to African art was one of representation and authorial spokesmanship that was engendered...]]></description>   
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	<title><![CDATA[Dirty Laundry: Can we think beyond Venice?]]></title>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[I have previously argued that Africa&rsquo;s representation in Venice is irrelevant when compared to the need to develop alternatives at &lsquo;home&rsquo;. In essence my argument is that we should not judge the success of South African art (or African or &lsquo;non-western&rsquo; art for that matter) by its presence or absence in the prime venues of...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=48</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[ReCenter: Online Catalogue]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
Artists: Donovan Ward, Ernestine White, Garth Erasmus, Gerry Dixon, Mario Pissarra (curator), Randolph Hartzenberg, and Xolile Mtakatya
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Venue: Look Out Hill, Mew Way, Khayelitsha, Cape Town
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Open: Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00- 14:00, 24 March &ndash; 28 April 2007, or view by appointment.
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Enquiries: info@asai.co.za tel 072 99 11&nbsp;278
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Concept
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ReCenter references the centre-periphery debate, specifically questions of Africa&rsquo;s representation in...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=47</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Madi Phala, original herd-boy (1955-2007)]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Madi Phala Spirits Descending
Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was robbed and fatally stabbed outside his home in Langa, Cape Town on the evening of Friday 2nd March 2007. Born in Kwa-Thema, Springs in 1955, Phala was a member of the Bayajula Arts Society from the mid to late 1970s, a community initiative...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=46</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Atelier Alexandria International Artists Workshop 2006: A Report]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[The AAW International Artists Workshop 2006 provided me with an important opportunity to visit the historic country of Egypt and the city of Alexandria. Workshops provide an enabling space for artists from diverse ethnic backgrounds to commingle, network and learn from each other, and the AAW workshop was no exception. I arrived in Egypt on...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=45</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Curating as a transformative practice [Targeted Candidate III]]]></title>
	<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[Discussion document presented at &lsquo;Institutions, Publics and Beyond: Curatorial Practices Moving On&rsquo;, keynote panel at the first South Africa Curators Workshop presented by The Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) and Robben Island Museum, 20 November 2006]
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In November 2005 I edited with Zayd Minty an Artthrob issue devoted to art and social development. Those...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=44</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Beyond current debates on representation: a few thoughts on the need to develop infrastructure for art in Africa]]></title>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[The discourse on contemporary African art is a comparatively recent one, and has to a large extent been dominated by issues of representation: what image of Africa is or has been communicated to the world, and to itself? Who is or who should be representing Africa? And who and what is Africa? Much of the...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=43</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Open Letter to Salah Hassan]]></title>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Dear Salah I was present at the creation of the Forum for African Arts in New York in January 2000. Although I was uncomfortable that Africa&rsquo;s &lsquo;salvation&rsquo; was once again coming from elsewhere and that only three of the thirteen individuals invited to become members of the Board were living on the African continent, I...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=42</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Open the Gate]]></title>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This letter was initially&nbsp;written in response to a letter from Salah Hassan and Okwui Enwezor to Robert Storr, Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale. It was copied by the writer to interested parties and is&nbsp;reproduced here with his permission.]
To Dr. Salah Hassan Forum for African Arts September 19, 2006 Dear Salah, Thanks for your email...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=40</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Targeted Candidate II [Iziko&#039;s response to Goniwe]]]></title>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[On 1 September 2006 Jatti Bredekamp, CEO of Iziko Museums, responded to Thembinkosi Goniwe&rsquo;s concerns about the South African National Gallery&rsquo;s notice for the position of trainee curator. Goniwe&rsquo;s intervention was initially communicated by email to Emma Bedford of the SANG on 28 July (See &ldquo;Targeted Candidate&rdquo;). Bredekamp copied Iziko&rsquo;s response to 27 persons, most...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=39</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Accumulated Material: Contemporary Altares and Ofrendas]]></title>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[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] 



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INTRODUCTION: RECYCLIA AS TRANSFORMATION 


Fig.1: Giselle A. Merciers installation work (detail shown here) explores her Afro-mestiza traditions
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&quot;Recyclia bear the fragments of other...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=38</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Dear Emma Bedford, Please consider my concerns regarding your advertised Trainee Curator at the SANG. I am wondering how many potential candidates &quot;from historically disadvantaged groups&quot; that would apply given the stipulated required &quot;Minimum qualification: BA Degree in Fine Arts or History of Art&quot;? I am thinking of young black art practitioners who have no...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=37</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Veneziano: Ventriloquizing Venice- a response to Malcolm Payne]]></title>
	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[Written in response to&nbsp; &ldquo;Viva Venice... Viva... Long live!&quot; where &quot;Malcolm Payne takes issue with Mario Pissarra&#039;s objections to an emphasis on the importance of the Venice Biennale&rdquo;, ArtThrob June 2006]

&lsquo;Veneziano&rsquo; is the local Venetian dialect, which &lsquo;does not descend from the Italian language but has its own morphology, syntax and lexicon.&rsquo; (Wikipedia)

Malcolm Payne&rsquo;s recent...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=36</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Venetian Blind: A response to Malcolm Payne]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This is a response to Malcolm Payne&rsquo;s &ldquo;Viva Venice... Viva... Long live!&rdquo; (ArtThrob, June 2006). Payne&rsquo;s piece was a response to my &ldquo;Death to Venice&rdquo; (ASAI, May 2006), which was a response to Marilyn Martin&rsquo;s companion pieces &ldquo;Death in Venice&rdquo; and &ldquo;Faultlines and Fumblings&rdquo; (ArtThrob, September 2003), as well as to Sue Williamsons remarks on...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=35</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Partial Revisionism: How the British Museum&#039;s re-framing of Africa reflects its own institutional interests and cultural bias. A review of John Mack (ed) Africa: Arts and Cultures]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[Africa: Arts and Cultures edited by John Mack, British Museum Press, London, 2000, 135 colour &amp; 9 b/w plates, 5 b/w maps, index, bibliography, 224pp, &pound;16.99 &nbsp;An edited version of this review was published as &ldquo;Defining African Art&rdquo; on www.cloudband.com in 2001, but is no longer available. Apart from the&nbsp;title no changes have been made...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=34</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Picasso and Africa: Are we asking the right questions?]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[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 their wealth and therefore it...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=33</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Death to Venice! A South African perspective on the irrelevance of representation at the Venice Biennale]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[This previously unpublished piece was originally submitted to the arts editors of leading South African newspapers in October 2003] 
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In a recent paper (soon to be published in art journals here and in the UK) I raised the questions as to whether South Africans are capable of making a paradigm shift away from a world...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=32</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[I Don&#039;t Like Cricket, I Hate It! How the Minister&#039;s Imbizo resurrected suppressed childhood memories and hurled me into the horrors of the present]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[After five years at the local, whites-only government school I was sent to a private, then boys-only, Catholic boarding school. Sending your children to be educated by strangers with a&nbsp;penchant for corporal punishment was entirely consistent with the child rearing ethics of the post slavery/colonial plantation class. Where the school stood apart was that it...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=30</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Give Jantjes a chance: a response to Rory Bester]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Rory Bester is entitled to his opinion that Gavin Jantjes &ldquo;has been away far too long and it showed&rdquo; but owes it to readers to substantiate this claim.[i] 
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I am on record as arguing that it is time for artists and professionals in Africa to seize the initiative in promoting &lsquo;African art&rsquo; away from Africans...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=28</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[The African Renaissance: Confronting the Unspeakable]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[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 at reconciliation are cast adrift...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=27</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of a  Pan-African Network of Artists and Organisations Involved in Dialogue]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[(Paper presented at the &lsquo;Reconnecting Africa&rsquo; for VANSA Conference on Transformation, Growth, Opportunity in the Visual Arts, Hiddingh Hall Campus, UCT, 10 February 2006).&nbsp;&nbsp;
I will begin with an excerpt from a report by the Pan-African Circle of Artists (PACA) based on a series of exhibitions titled &lsquo;Overcoming Maps 3,&rsquo; which travelled from Nigeria through to...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=25</link>
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	<title><![CDATA[Connecting Africa]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[[Paper prepared for the &ldquo;Reconnecting Africa&rdquo; panel at the &ldquo;Transformation/Growth/ Opportunity &rdquo; 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 &ldquo;connecting Africa &rdquo;. Certainly &ldquo;reconnecting Africa &rdquo; is misleading if it implies that &ldquo; Africa &rdquo; was...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=24</link>
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	<title><![CDATA["Not Just Another Biennale"?]]></title>
	<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Not just another biennale&rdquo;? Susan Glanville-Zini (CEO of Cape Africa Platform) and Julian Jonker (Coordinator of Sessions Ekapa) in conversation with Mario Pissarra, 28 November 2005, Cape Town 
Context: The Cape Africa Platform promises to deliver a mega-event that will be &ldquo;not just another biennale&rdquo;. The first major element in their plan is a conference,...]]></description>   
	<link>http://www.asai.co.za/forum.php?id=22</link>
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