Socialism in Contemporary African Art: Butchering the End of Time
Álvaro Luís Lima
This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa's radical history...
“We Need a Lighthouse Philosopher”: Filipa César and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media
Delinda Collier
This article discusses Filipa César's and Louis Henderson's digital film Sunstone (2018), situating it within a history of lenses and lighthouses in Portuguese conquest....
Make Me a Picture of the Future: Massinissa Selmani’s 1000 Socialist Villages (2015)
Natasha Marie Llorens
Contemporary artist Massinissa Selmani's installation 1000 Socialist Villages (2015) explores how a rural land distribution and urban planning initiative in Algeria known as “1000...
The Mythography of Socialism in Contemporary Angolan Art
Nadine Siegert
The period of political socialism (1975–1991) in Angola was relatively short but has left remnants – both as physical and ideological manifestations. These have been...
The Politics and Aesthetics of Liberation: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Contemporary Artistic Practice from and about Lusophone Africa 1
Ana Balona de Oliveira
This essay explores the ways in which artistic practices have revisited histories and memories of anti-colonial struggle, socialist revolution, and decolonization in Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau,...
Abstract States: Modernism in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
Gemma Sharpe
A decade after modernist art history's tentative embrace of postcolonial modernisms, a new crop of books are leveraging this disciplinary acceptance to examine hitherto shrouded...
As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks
Dawit L. Petros, Black Athena Collective
Between 1884–1885, Britain requested a contingent of boatmen – “voyageurs” – from Canada to assist transport troops and supplies through the Nile's system of cataracts...
Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”
Polly Savage
In April 1977, after almost two years in power, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) announced their plans for the culture of the...
Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes
Tempo, Polly Savage
In April 1977, after almost two years in power, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) announced their plans for the culture of the...
