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From the Curator's BlackBox: Zimbabwe's Journey to the Venice Biennale from 2011 to 2019
Zimbabwe mobilizes: ICAC's shift from Coup de GrÄce to Cultural Coup
The International Conference on African Cultures (ICAC) was held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare from September 11â13, 2017. Eight delegates write their reflections on the importance of this Africa-based event
Paper beads on the move: mobilizing trajectories and subjectivities to shape contemporary art in Uganda
Beads cannot simply be viewed as nonrepresentational, decorative entities. In Uganda, the art of paper bead[ing] is empowering women economically while mobilizing new trajectories that reflect the intersecting and shifting landscapes of public space and private space to shape inquiry into gender relationships, art, art-making, and politics
Reaching sideways, writing our ways: the orientation of the arts of Africa discourse
In Rehema Chachage's video installation, Kwa Baba Rithi Undugu (2010), sculptural objects representing old-fashioned transistor radios are mounted on the wall, side by side (Fig. 1). Embedded in each radio is a small video screen, which reveals a figure who stands in one place while the vertical line of the radio tuner crosses her body in search of the desired frequency (Figs. 2â3). A man's voice wafts in and out as it is periodically interrupted by unsolicited noise, revealing the difficulty of relating to others when sound is interrupted or there is an absence of voice. Voice, writes Chachage, is a âprerequisite for interlocution and the construction of discourse.â This work engages with the assertion that to âlive means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree âŠâ and to do so full heartedly with your âeyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit ⊠whole body and deedsâ (Bakhtin 1984:293)