Contemporary African Arts and Shifting Landscapes / Edited by Gilane Tawadros and Sarah Campbell

CONTENTS: --- Preface/ Salah Hassan --- The Revolution Stripped Bare/ Gilane Tawadros --- Maps of Emergency: Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates/ Stuart Hall --- Need for Unity/ Gamal Abdel-Nasser --- I Speak of Freedom: A statement of African ideology/ Kwame Nkrumah --- Provisional Notes on the postcolony/ Achille Mbembe --- The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary art in a state of permanent transition/ Okwui Enwezor --- Fatal Natalities: The Algebra of Diaspora and Difference after apartheid/ Sarat Maharaj --- Issues facing the African arts: Interviews with Adriano Mixinge/ Landry-Wilfrid Miampika --- ARTISTS --- Laylah Ali- Untitled (A Way In)/ Lisa Fischman --- Kader Attia- The Right Position: An interview with Kader Attia/ Jerome Sans --- Samta Benyahia- Samta Benyahia: Through the Mashrabiyya and other Jalousies/ Ramon Tio Bellido --- The Poet as a boxer/ Kateb Yacine --- Zarina Bhimji- Tender Metaphor: The Art of Zarini Bhimji/ Deepali Dewan --- Frank Bowling- Frank Bowling's Map Paintings/ Kobena Mercer --- Clifford Charles- Clifford Charles and the Pleasures of Contemplative Insurgency/ Bheki Peterson --- We've also been to Soweto/ Prince Massingham --- Pitso Chinzima & Veliswa Gwintsa- At least one person was killed/ Prince Mbusi Dube --- Rotimi Fani-Kayode- Traces of ecstasy/ Rotimi Fani Kayode --- A note from outside on Rotimi Fani-Kayode/ Mark Sealy --- Hassan Fathy- Architecture for the poor: an experiment in rural Egypt/ Hassan Fathy --- Hassan Fathy and the Identity debate/ Nasser Rabbat --- Moshekwa Langa- The Global Village Revisited/ Hamza Walker --- Salem Mekuria- Salem Mekuria/ Elisabet Giorgis --- Fault Lines and Shifting Landscapes in Contemporary African Art/ Solomon Deressa --- Sabah Naim- Emergent Forms: Sabah Naim reconceptualises movement/ Yasmeen Siddiqui --- Moatz Nasr- Moataz Nasr, or the evidence of things not seen/ Simon Njami ---Wael Shawky- So you wanna be...?/ Niru Ratnam --- Text credits & notes --- Artists' biographies --- Contributors' biographies --- Acknowledgements.

Published with the exhibition Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, presented as part of the 50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2003, Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer. Contributors: Solomon Deressa, Deepali Dewan, Okwui Enwezor, Lisa Fischman, Elsabet Giorgis, Stuart Hall, Salah Hussain, Sarat Maharaj, Prince Massingham, Achille Mbembe, Prince Mbusi Dube, Kobena Mercer, Landry-Wilfrid Miampika, Adriano Mixinge, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Simon Najmi, Kwame Nkrumah, Bhekizizwe Peterson, Nasser Rabbat, Niru Ratnam, Jerome Sans, Mark Sealy, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Ramon Tio Bellido, Hamza Walker, Kateb Yacine. Artists: Laylah Ali, Kader Attia, Zarina Bhimji, Samta Benyahia, Frank Bowling, Clifford Charles, Pitso Chinzima, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Hassan Fathy, Veliswa Gwintsa, Moshekwa Langa, Salem Mekuria, Saima Naim, Moataz Nasr, Wael Shawky.

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