ARCHIVE
HASSAN KHAN AND
WAEL SHAWKY
mediated by Shahira Issa
SHAHIRA ISSA Perhaps I’ll start by asking you both how you consider your present practice…
HASSAN KHAN I’ve never had a set idea of what I am supposed to [...]
ON THE DIVERSITY OF
AFRICAN MUSIC
words by Benjamin Lebrave
There is more genetic diversity among Africans than within the rest of the world. This means if you look at the DNA of Africans from different ethnic backgrounds, you will statistically [...]
A CULTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
words by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim
Growing up, I had a mythic imagination of England, a place of sliced white bread, of rolling glades and hillsides, girls in straw boater hats, the Beatles, marmalade, a hand-bag toting [...]
NICHOLAS HLOBO
essay by Tracy Murinik
Over the past, prolific decade, Nicholas Hlobo has engaged in richly enigmatic conversations with his audience that explore themes of sexual and cultural identity via the suggestiveness of materiality that compose his [...]
LYNETTE YIADOM–BOAKYE
interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
HANS ULRICH OBRIST In your paintings you have a very clear methodology, which is actually quite conceptual. It sounds like, in a sort of On Kawara way, a painting a day. Can you talk about this? It seems [...]
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
interview by Carson Chan
CARSON CHAN You were recently appointed Curator of International Art at Tate Modern and, given your expertise in African art, you will be contributing to Tate’s ambitions to expand its reach on the [...]