Diaspora Memory Place
by Hassan, Salah M.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-07-15
Publisher(s): Prestel Pub
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Summary
"A presentation and analysis of the work of three of the most exciting African diaspora artists of our time - David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Pamela Z. A series of essays by scholars and critics examine three site-specific installation and performances originally concieved by these artists for Dak'Art 2004, the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents
| Spirit Writing | p. 1 |
| Diaspora/Memory/Place: Three Artists/Three Projects | p. 29 |
| Diaspora/Memory/Place | |
| Dakar: From Yesterday to Today | p. 48 |
| Dakar: Memories for Another Passage | p. 62 |
| The Uses of Diaspora | p. 78 |
| Place-Making or in the "Wrong Place": Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition | p. 106 |
| The Darkest Africa Syndrome and the Idea of Africa: Notes Toward a Global Vision of Africa and Its Modernist Practice | p. 130 |
| 3 x 3:Three Artists/Three Projects | |
| David Hammons/Dak'Art 2004 Sheep Raffle | p. 137 |
| Dak'Art 2004 Sheep Raffle | p. 138 |
| Sheep and Circumstance: Hammons, Africa, and the Exit Art Installation | p. 156 |
| Chromatic Shadows, So What? Notes Toward Better Reception of David Hammons's Signals | p. 170 |
| An Elective Affinity: David Hammons's Hidden from View and Made in the People's Republic of Harlem | p. 196 |
| Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons/Threads of Memory | p. 211 |
| Threads of Memory - Invisible Lines | p. 212 |
| Interiority or Hill-Sided Moon | p. 220 |
| Patterns of Remembrance | p. 230 |
| Conversation with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons | p. 244 |
| Pamela Z/Just Dust | p. 255 |
| A Sound Argument Against the Autonomy of "The Visual" | p. 256 |
| The Virtual Discourses of Pamela Z | p. 266 |
| "Did You Mark Other?" Transnational Pedagogy in the Sound Art of Pamela Z | p. 290 |
| Conversation with Pamela Z | p. 302 |
| Artists' Biographies | p. 314 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 316 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 319 |
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