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"Recalling the Future: Art in Contemporary Africa"

Julie L. McGee

Abstract


“Recalling the Future: Art in Contemporary Africa” is a 48-minute introduction to practicing artists and current philosophies about the production of art in contemporary Africa. Filmed during Dak’Art 1998, the video gives primacy of voice to selected artists and a few critics, such as Okwui Enwezor (Artistic Director of 1997 Johannesburg Biennale) and Iba Diadji N’diaye, and a few Biennale board members, Rémi Sagna, General Secretary of the Biennale and Ousmane Huchard, Chairman of the Board of Dak’Art 1998.

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Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World. ISSN: 1530-5686 (online).
Editor: Nkiru Nzegwu; Film Review Editor: Phyllis J. Jackson; Exhibition/Curator & Book Review Editor: Azuka Nzegwu

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