Spirit Writing / David Hammons -- Introduction. Diaspora/Memory/Place: Three Artists/Three Projects / Salah M.Hassan and Cheryl Finley -- Diaspora/Memory/Place -- Dakar: From Yesterday to Today / Mamadou Diouf -- Dakar: Memories for Another Passage / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- The Uses of Diaspora / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Place-Making or in the "Wrong Place": Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition / Okwui Enwezor -- The Darkest Africa Syndrome and the Idea of Africa: Notes Toward a Global Vision of Africa and Its Modernist Practice / Salah M. Hassan -- 3 x 3:Three Artists/Three Projects -- 1. David Hammons/Dak'Art 2004 Sheep Raffle -- Dak'Art 2004 Sheep Raffle / Manthia Diawara -- Sheep and Circumstance: Hammons, Africa, and the Exit Art Installation / Kellie Jones -- Chromatic Shadows, So What? Notes Toward Better Reception of David Hammons's Signals / Barry Maxwell -- An Elective Affinity: David Hammons's Hidden from View and Made in the People's Republic of Harlem / Claire Tancons -- 2. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons/Threads of Memory -- Threads of Memory - Invisible Lines / Sally Berger -- Interiority or Hill-Sided Moon / Salah M. Hassan -- Patterns of Remembrance / Selene Wendt -- Conversation with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons / Derek Conrad Murray and Soraya Murray -- 3. Pamela Z/Just Dust -- A Sound Argument Against the Autonomy of "The Visual" / Maria Fernandez -- The Virtual Discourses of Pamela Z / George E. Lewis -- "Did You Mark Other?" Transnational Pedagogy in the Sound Art of Pamela Z / Tavia Nyong'o -- Conversation with Pamela Z / Derek Conrad Murray and Soraya Murray
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
Notes
"This publication was conceived as part of 3 x 3 Diaspora/Memory/Place, David Hammons/Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons/Pamela Z, Three Artists-Three Projects, the United States Official Participation in Dak'Art 2004: The Biennale of Contemporary African Art"--Colophon