C& Magazine #3: Center What?
<p class="p1">Welcome to the third print issue of Contemporary And (C&), our biggest to date. The first issue was launched exactly one year ago during the 11th Dakar Biennale and significantly extended the form and purpose of our online art magazine, contemporaryand.com. Together, the online platform and the print issues represent and embody different ways of narrating the story of contemporary art from African perspectives, a story without a single history or center.</p> <p class="p1">In this issue we talk to artists, curators and academics about alternative routes of communication: cartographies of migration and shifting political borders introduce our focus on migration, whether through the immersive work of Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh, or the presence of the migrant in the multimedia work of Guy Wouete and Serge Alain Nitegeka. We listen to photographers documenting young people who have left their home countries under difficult circumstances, drawn by the expectation of a better life.</p> <p class="p1">During the past few weeks, our own center was Lagos, where we had the amazing chance to hold our first critical writing workshop together with a smart group of instructors and over 30 young art critics from Nigeria. Since then, many of them have already become part of our global writers’ network and will cover the art world from Nigeria on our behalf. So we do need centers. But those centers can be everywhere and nowhere, depending on where you choose them to be.</p>
Conceptor: Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, Aïcha Diallo, Bakri Bakhit
Editors: Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, Elisabeth Wellershaus, Sean O’Toole, Aïcha Diallo, Olivia Buschey, Basia Lewandowska Cummings
Designers: Luke Gould
Contributors: Bim Adewumni, David Adjaye, Kunle Ajibade, Chimurenga, Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Ade Darmawan, Misa Dayson, Okwui Enwezor, Thelma Golden, Muhammed Lamin Jadama, Stacy Hardy, Samson Kambalu, Ibrahim Mahama, Walter Mignolo, Patrick Mudekereza, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Emeka Ogboh, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Tolu Ogunlesi, Obidike Okakor, RitaGT, Guy Wouete
Copy-editors: Karen Margolis, Jake Schneider
Part of: C& Magazine
ISSN: 2701-3375