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On April 11-12, 2022, The Africa Institute’s Director, Professor Salah M. Hassan, and Associate Professor of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Elizabeth W. Giorgis were invited by The Institut National D’historie de L’art two-day hybrid conference titled, Pioneers of Contemporary African Art in Paris.
The conference, curated by South African curator and writer Riason Naidoo, focused on pioneer figures of contemporary African art especially dedicated to the artists of the 1960s and 1970s, the collectives, and to the festivals that marked the dynamics during the decades.
The event invited multiple conversations with artists, curators, critics, writers, and art historians. This plurality of views and experiences made it possible to retrace select singular trajectories and collective movements at a time when, with the end of the Cold War and the evolution of world politics, contemporary African art began to be the subject of increased international attention.
Professor Giorgis delivered the keynote address virtually recalling narratives that make up an important chapter of African art. The focus of her talk was on Ethiopian modernists of the 1960s, which was based on excerpts from Elizabeth’s book, “Modernist Art in Ethiopia” (2019).
While Professor Hassan shared his talk through a moderated conversation titled, “NKA and other projects” where he spoke about NKA, a journal of contemporary African art founded in 1994 by Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Salah M. Hassan.
Hassan shared the reason and significance of initiating NKA that contributes to the intellectual dialogue on world art by publishing critical work in the developing field of contemporary African and African diaspora art. The journal features scholarly articles, reviews of exhibitions, books, and film reviews, and roundtables.
Click here for the full playlist from the conference, Pioneers of Contemporary African Art.
On April 11-12, 2022, The Africa Institute’s Director, Professor Salah M. Hassan, and Associate Professor of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Elizabeth W. Giorgis were invited by The Institut National D’historie de L’art two-day hybrid conference titled, Pioneers of Contemporary African Art in Paris.
On April 11-12, 2022, The Africa Institute’s Director, Professor Salah M. Hassan, and Associate Professor of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Elizabeth W. Giorgis were invited by The Institut National D’historie de L’art two-day hybrid conference titled, Pioneers of Contemporary African Art in Paris.
The conference, curated by South African curator and writer Riason Naidoo, focused on pioneer figures of contemporary African art especially dedicated to the artists of the 1960s and 1970s, the collectives, and to the festivals that marked the dynamics during the decades.
The event invited multiple conversations with artists, curators, critics, writers, and art historians. This plurality of views and experiences made it possible to retrace select singular trajectories and collective movements at a time when, with the end of the Cold War and the evolution of world politics, contemporary African art began to be the subject of increased international attention.
Professor Giorgis delivered the keynote address virtually recalling narratives that make up an important chapter of African art. The focus of her talk was on Ethiopian modernists of the 1960s, which was based on excerpts from Elizabeth’s book, “Modernist Art in Ethiopia” (2019).
While Professor Hassan shared his talk through a moderated conversation titled, “NKA and other projects” where he spoke about NKA, a journal of contemporary African art founded in 1994 by Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Salah M. Hassan.
Hassan shared the reason and significance of initiating NKA that contributes to the intellectual dialogue on world art by publishing critical work in the developing field of contemporary African and African diaspora art. The journal features scholarly articles, reviews of exhibitions, books, and film reviews, and roundtables.
Click here for the full playlist from the conference, Pioneers of Contemporary African Art.
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